I had a 3 year old go off to preschool in September, late summer I got a call from his Mom ( we will call her #1) asking if I would have an infant opening next fall. She had just found out that she's pregnant, due in April but since she's a teacher she won't need the spot until fall. No problem for me, I will have two going off to preschool in September so I will have the opening. She isn't paying me for hold the spot for her because I don't have an opening until she needs it anyway, if I had an opening now that I was holding for her then yes I would charge her a holding fee.
Now 2 of my existing daycare Moms are pregnant, both due in August. If I take #1 Mom's baby I won't be able to take both babies of my existing clients. What is fair? I hate to lose existing clients that already have one child here. I hate to see either of these kids having to pack up and move to a different daycare, my goal is to take babies at birth and keep them until they go off to preschool.
To top it off Mom #1's son that was here and then went off to preschool was diagnosed with Leukemia in October so she is dealing with that on top of the new pregnancy. The only thing that I can think of to do is to email her tell her that I need a 100% guarantee that she is going to take the spot and then tell my one existing family that I can't take them but OMG I hate to do that to them. Is it fair to dump and existing client for a non existing client? What would you do?
Now 2 of my existing daycare Moms are pregnant, both due in August. If I take #1 Mom's baby I won't be able to take both babies of my existing clients. What is fair? I hate to lose existing clients that already have one child here. I hate to see either of these kids having to pack up and move to a different daycare, my goal is to take babies at birth and keep them until they go off to preschool.
To top it off Mom #1's son that was here and then went off to preschool was diagnosed with Leukemia in October so she is dealing with that on top of the new pregnancy. The only thing that I can think of to do is to email her tell her that I need a 100% guarantee that she is going to take the spot and then tell my one existing family that I can't take them but OMG I hate to do that to them. Is it fair to dump and existing client for a non existing client? What would you do?
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