They Are All Home Today Grrr!

[Unregistered]

I've wondered about this same thing! I get a lot of DCF, where both parents are workaholic professionals, who planned each of their children. They always put the perfect family act on extra thick, but their children are at my house from opening to closing.

During a huge snowstorm, one DCM bragged that her boss told her she could leave work early to "go get her babies," but she went straight home, instead. When I closed for the following snow day to force her to keep them at home, I jokingly told her that I was ready for school to open since I had spent the day watching the One Direction documentary with my daughters. She replied: "Oh, no...I just love snow days with my kids." Yeah....sure!

I got tired of caring for kids whose parents got sent home because of weather. If an adult workplace is closing -- you need to take your children home!
I put it in my policy that if your workplace is closed due to weather or other area emergency (before you come to dc) your child should remain with you. And if your workplace closes due to the same, you need to pick your child up immediately.
I figure it could be a little hard to know, but really, it hasn't been so far. Once one workplace closes, the others follow suit. AND YOUR CHILD BELONGS WITH YOU THEN.

[Tdhmom]

I agree....I do struggle with this. BUT if you as a provider offers the family time where they don't have to pay if the child is not in attendance and that family chooses not to go that route (and send the child open to close despite not working), THAT is unfortunate to me.

I had an EX-family try to get me to watch their daughter on Father's Day. The father just got back from a work-related trip that lasted a month one day prior :confused:. It's one thing to impose on another family's Father's Day, but to not want to spend time with your daughter when you haven't seen her in a month??? I just don't get it!

I do offer this! For this reason. Hoping if they have the day off then they will take advantage of it. If I'm cut short that week in pay because they wanted to stay another day camping...fine by me! We get to take off and go swimming for the day It works most of the time but I have had parents that do not care and send them anyway. It's sad.

[Indoorvoice]

One of my friends posted on Facebook yesterday that he got out of work early and was wondering what he should do until it was time to pick up his kid from daycare. Someone posted "go pick up your son and have a special treat with him!" He replied, "yeah, but I already paid for daycare for the month so..."

When I opened my daycare, I decided to only charge when the child was here so parents would be encouraged to keep their kids with them when they had a day off. I like random days off to spend with my own children. It hasn't been an incentive for them at all. They gladly pay me $30 for a day free from their child. I didn't specifically ask for new years off this year... I just assumed everyone would stay home with their families. Nope! I had a kid at my door at 8 am because they wanted to go out to eat!