How Many Hours?

[AnneCordelia]

I'm curious as to the hours we all work across the board.

How many hours a week do you put into your daycare? How many of those hours are children in your care vs prep time off hours?

[CheekyChick]

About 50 with the children and 10 on the weekends (interviews, cleaning, shopping, paperwork, etc). Does time on these boards count too? ::
So addicting...

[AnneCordelia]

I do about 54 with the children. Another 4-10 on evenings/weekends depending on interviews and stuff.

I'm looking to cut that down to 45 hours/week with the children, which would be nice.

[nannyde]

About 55 hours of kids in the house and about five hours a week of non kid hours. So about sixty total.

[pappyny]

I do about 50 per week with the kids, then another 10 - 15 per week cleaning, prepping, shopping etc.
Sometimes I find myself addicted to organizing and rearranging my daycare space and I spend every free moment I have on just that!

[laundrymom]

I am 70 per week children, 14 per day. Plus grocery, banking, cleaning, so about 75 to 77hours.

[mac60]

55 actual daycare....another 10 to 15 with extra laundry, cleaning, shopping and all the other fun stuff we get to do concerning our business.

[Crazy8]

my hours are 7:30-5:00pm so totals 47.5 per week. Hours without kids varies anywhere from 5-15 hours a week, so I'd say I average a 55 hour week.

[CheekyChick]

I am 70 per week children, 14 per day. Plus grocery, banking, cleaning, so about 75 to 77hours.

Yikes!!!

[PitterPatter]

For the past couple years it has always been 50-60 hours per week with the kids then an hour every evening for clean up, mopping, scrubbing. Weekends I do all the shopping for the week and a bigger clean of the entire house. Not sure what that totals. As of this month I am now 40-50 hrs a week with kids. I dropped 10-20 hrs of work per week just by dropping a single child! Boy what a dif it makes too!

[laundrymom]

Yikes!!!

Lol. I work 4a to 6p.

[PitterPatter]

Lol. I work 4a to 6p.

OMG!! Kudos to u for having the strength and patience but can I ask why such long hours? I would burn out within a couple months I bet! I was losing the battle with just 60 hrs a week with 1 of my DCKs.

[laundrymom]

OMG!! Kudos to u for having the strength and patience but can I ask why such long hours? I would burn out within a couple months I bet! I was losing the battle with just 60 hrs a week with 1 of my DCKs.

I've done it since may of 1990. I work in a factory town. They start at 420, I start at 4. Then I have office workers, who work to 530. Get here by 6.

[Meeko]

60 open hours (6AM - 6PM) I clean as I go and do my paperwork etc at nap time. I have an assistant which helps with getting things done.

Interviews are always after hours, but I stay pretty full, so not much interviewing per year.

I buy the day care food when I buy my own groceries which is on Fridays after work. We all go (me, hubby, adult son and two teen daughters) and every one has a list. We get in done in a flash and then we relax all weekend!

[cheerfuldom]

50 hours open, minimal time outside of regular hours working on daycare stuff. If I am looking to fill a spot, running ads, talking to prospects and stuff can add a lot of time but besides that I try and do everything else during daycare hours.