Home Daycare Sick Kid

[Sweet pea]

I always close if my kid gets sick, only happened once in 6 years of operating as inhome daycare. I expect parents to keep sick kids out of my house and in return I do the same.
I can’t keep my own kid out of the house so I close. No Payment due as parents may have to pay someone else to watch their kid

[LittleExplorers]

This is one thing I find myself at odds with when providers choose to stay open with their sick child and then give the parents the option of staying home or coming to care still but if they choose to stay home, they still have to pay.

Then later when the DCK gets sick, the provider excludes that child AND still charges for care.

I go back and forth myself on this. My son has asthma so a cold for him quickly turns into a respiratory infection. I have stayed open many times and no other children got a respiratory infection. However, if it was HFM, influenza or a handful of other sicknesses, I would close without pay. Most of my parents prefer I stay open.

[Jupadia]

For myself with my own 2, I would close and refund (or rather credit) day if I had to. So far the most the kids have gotten is a couple fevers on those days depending on age my sons were I either have been able to have their grandmother stay with them upstairs (where the daycare kids never go), have my husband drop them off at her house (only 5 min away), or keep them separated. I found that separation only works though under 1 year at most after that it's hard, though I think when they get to be 6 or 7 they will be ok upstairs with me just checking in.