Contracted Start Times

[Luke25]

I was wondering if anyone has experience with this or advice..
I have a day care family that I absolutely love. She is in the medical field and drops off early around 6:15 am, but has a week off every month. During her off week she still brings them but they come much later,. Between 8-8:30. They are my only early people so they dictate when I have to be up and ready in the morning.
Randomly during her off weeks she will bring them around normal time and not tell me she is going to, so I'm asleep when I get her 5 minutes away text and have a terrible start to my day.
Has anyone had separate contract hours for work days and off days so I could avoid this in the future?

[childcaremom]

I was wondering if anyone has experience with this or advice..
I have a day care family that I absolutely love. She is in the medical field and drops off early around 6:15 am, but has a week off every month. During her off week she still brings them but they come much later,. Between 8-8:30. They are my only early people so they dictate when I have to be up and ready in the morning.
Randomly during her off weeks she will bring them around normal time and not tell me she is going to, so I'm asleep when I get her 5 minutes away text and have a terrible start to my day.
Has anyone had separate contract hours for work days and off days so I could avoid this in the future?

I would ask for her schedule in advance. 1 month in advance. Set a contracted time for when she works (ie 6:15) and when she is off (ie 8:30). That means she is not allowed to drop off earlier than her contracted times. If you want to allow changes, require a min of 24 hours advance notice and that it is subject to provider approval. So you can say no if you want to sleep in.

Or you could have it that her set time is 6:15, period. If she is not in attendance within 1 hour of her contracted time then the children will be marked absent for the day and not admitted into care. I'm up early all the time so this would work best for me as the children would be on the same schedule all the time.

[Luke25]

Thanks for the advice!
She does give me her schedule a year in advance so I know when she will be off and actually look forward to the later days. I have some time to myself in the morning and get to sleep in a little bit.
It's just frustrating when randomly on a day I know she will be off she brings them normal time and doesn't tell me. Especially since 99% of the time she brings them later on her off days.
Looks like the contracted times would work best! That way it's fair for both of us.

[Luke25]

I have a really hard time speaking up when things are bothering me. Especially to a parent who treats me so well in every other way. I'm going to have to **** it up so this isn't something bothering me for the next 3 years!!

[Alwaysgreener]

You could Nanny D pay scale but on reverse. Instead of paying less for early pick up she could pay less for a later drop off. That way you know in advance what time she will come, since that is the time she paid for.

[rosieteddy]

If you made a special deal with her for early then its time to change it.Give 2 weeks notice and say no more early drop off when not needed.Explain that you made the concession for her to work. I would tell the truth its your earliest client and if not needed you would rather wait .I would say 830 on non work days.

[Luke25]

If you made a special deal with her for early then its time to change it.Give 2 weeks notice and say no more early drop off when not needed.Explain that you made the concession for her to work. I would tell the truth its your earliest client and if not needed you would rather wait .I would say 830 on non work days.

Yes I really did. They were my very first family ever, but I definitely wasn't planning on starting at 6:15. I worded it when she asked so that it was clear that I was making an exception.
I think I'll definitely just ask that on non work days it's an 8:30 start time and discuss that with any future early families I may have.
Thank you!!