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Blackcat31 02:26 PM 04-17-2012
Originally Posted by TomCopeland:
Perhaps the most important record keeping task for a family child care provider is to track all the hours you are working in your home when day care children are not present.

There are no specific rules about what hours you can count for cleaning. In general, count hours spent on cleaning activities that you wouldn't be doing if you weren't in business. Time spent cleaning right before the children arrive in the morning to get ready for them, and right after the children leave to put your house back in order for your family would count. If you cleaned your kitchen and bathrooms for 1 hour on Saturday, only count the time associated with cleaning that is related to your business.

If your own children are cleaning for your business after the children are gone, you can count this time. But if you and your own child are cleaning for 1 hour, you count 1 hour, not 2 hours.

You can count as many cleaning hours as you are doing for your business. There is no upper limit. Keep careful records of your cleaning time for at least 2 months each year and use the average for these two months.
I don't understand how we claim these extra hours. Is there a dollar value applied to them or is it part of the time-space percentage thing? Which in my case then wouldn't work since I have a 100% completely separate child care house and don't do time space percentage. Should I be for extra hours I do work outside of the time I am at daycare?
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