How Many Hours?

[spud912]

Lately it's been 68 hours with the children (6 days a week) plus grocery shopping, cleaning, planning. I've been really burnt out and will be terming my Sunday child as soon as I fill one spot.

[wdmmom]

50 hours of having children in attendance. Another 5-10 for grocery shopping, bank runs, cleaning, prepping food in advance, paying bills, taking calls from prospective clients, returning emails and interviewing.

[CheekyChick]

Lol. I work 4a to 6p.

Double YIKES!!!

[Abigail]

I thought we couldn't count are time driving places (only mileage) and I thought we couldn't count time spent outside the home where daycare is provided on things like shopping. Is this just a general question or a tax related question? LOL

[countrymom]

no more than 50 hours a week. As for the cleaning and cooking and stuff, I don't know how to factor that in, but if I had to its probably another 10 to 15 hours a week.

[SimpleMom]

I thought we couldn't count are time driving places (only mileage) and I thought we couldn't count time spent outside the home where daycare is provided on things like shopping. Is this just a general question or a tax related question? LOL

You can track mileage and hours spent outside of open hours if daycare related.

[SilverSabre25]

Goodness, I don't even know, it varies so much. Technically I'm open 7 AM to 6 PM. One dcb (my early one) sometimes has to come at 6 AM, sometimes doesn't come at all certain days (mom works retail). My two other dcks come between 9:30 and 10AM; one leave by 4:30 every day, the other is usually here until 6:30, but only comes three days a week and sometimes doesn't come. The first dck is here on Saturdays, as well.

Yah, it's complicated.Max hours per week is about 60, I think.

[JaydensMommy]

I work 6am-6pm. Well it's supposed to be 6am but here I am still waiting for the kids to arrive...

[boysx5]

I around 60 hours a week 50 of kids being here and about ten getting things ready for the day and after

[SandeeAR]

60 total. 50 with kids, 10 doing the daily pick up, taking out diapers, weekends doing bedding, deep clean of high chairs, toys etc.

[daycare]

Im open 56 hours her week for DC and put in during the school time (Sept -June) an additional 15-20hrs a week with my curriculum. Maybe only about 5-10 during the summer time.

[dEHmom]

On a regular day it's 10.25 hours a day, and occassionally 11 hours a day with kids in care. so about 52.25 to 55 hrs a week actual care hours.

there's about 1/2 hour prior to dropoffs that i spend tidying up what i didn't do before bed. that's 2.5 hours a week.

then after the kids leave i have about an hour that i spread out in the evenings (little bits here and there) doing cleanups and reorganizing bins etc. that's 5 hours a week approx.

then on the weekends (and some evenings) I would say approx. 3 extra hours daycare related to clean up the yard toys and cut the grass, do laundry (rags, washcloths, bedding, extra clothes etc).

so in total about 65.5 hours a week on daycare. If we are doing a home improvement or something like flooring, or painting etc, I probably wouldn't consider that daycare hours because it's more for my family and home than it is for daycare. But certain things I might factor the cost into the daycare because flooring is for the kids to crawl on and sleep on, so we ripped out awful disgusting carpet because I didn't want any daycare kids crawling, laying, or playing on it.

[GotKids]

I am open 6-6 m-f and I watch one on Sat from 6-5. I usually spend about 3-4 hours more a week with book keeping, lesson planning, washing and inspecting toys, reorganizing our mess after the day ends, and an additional hour for the shopping I do for their food. So roughly 75 hours give or take.

[MarinaVanessa]

You can track mileage and hours spent outside of open hours if daycare related.

You can only track mileage but not time spent out of DC even if it's DC related. The only time that you can track is time spent in your home doing DC related things .

That being said I do 60 hours a week with children in care and another 8-10 hours doing DC business with no kids in my home. If you added all of the time that I spend grocery shopping, training etc then that would be anothr 1-2 hours a week. I prefer (but don't always) to do most of the paperwork, prep, organizing, cleaning etc. during non DC hours (an hour or 2 after DC closes and on weekends sometimes) and have a higher space % so that I can deduct a higher % of my shared purchases.

** oops I meant to have a higher time %

[Meyou]

50 hours a week with the kids and 3-4 outside of work hours for a bit of cleaning and weekly grocery shopping. I do most of my cleaning, prep work and paperwork at naptime.