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OP I agree--I'm pretty tired of parents seeming surprised by my policies. I am finally going to start having parents initial each line of my contract.
Perhaps in your situation you could simply have clothing rental fees in your contract and have the parents initial each line of your contract after you painstakingly spell out each line in their presence. That way you don't need to argue with mom about the shoe sock thing--just charge her what it's worth to you and provide them.
Having said that though, I don't love enforcing my policies that way. I have rental fees to help parents remember my policies--I don't really want to keep doing it because a parent doesn't care. I would rather they left if they were going to keep ignoring policies. Or I would raise the fees maybe for that one client until they paid attention--or left.
I have shoes off at the front door, and i provide outdoor shoes that are by the back door. (I'm only licensed for 8 kids, so it's not too hard to keep a set of outdoor shoes here). I have snow boots for freezing weather, rain boots for cool mild weather, and water shoes for hot weather. I don't care if they are crocs or the mesh kind.
I require socks inside unless it's HOT weather. And the parents need to always provide spare, because they usually need a change of socks when we come inside.
I allow bare feet inside in hot weather. I usually define hot weather as June thru August. But I'm probably not going to brawl it out with the parent who wants kids to go sockless in May. But they still need spares.
Perhaps in your situation you could simply have clothing rental fees in your contract and have the parents initial each line of your contract after you painstakingly spell out each line in their presence. That way you don't need to argue with mom about the shoe sock thing--just charge her what it's worth to you and provide them.
Having said that though, I don't love enforcing my policies that way. I have rental fees to help parents remember my policies--I don't really want to keep doing it because a parent doesn't care. I would rather they left if they were going to keep ignoring policies. Or I would raise the fees maybe for that one client until they paid attention--or left.
I have shoes off at the front door, and i provide outdoor shoes that are by the back door. (I'm only licensed for 8 kids, so it's not too hard to keep a set of outdoor shoes here). I have snow boots for freezing weather, rain boots for cool mild weather, and water shoes for hot weather. I don't care if they are crocs or the mesh kind.
I require socks inside unless it's HOT weather. And the parents need to always provide spare, because they usually need a change of socks when we come inside.
I allow bare feet inside in hot weather. I usually define hot weather as June thru August. But I'm probably not going to brawl it out with the parent who wants kids to go sockless in May. But they still need spares.
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