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AnneCordelia 02:50 PM 07-24-2011
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?
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CheekyChick 03:06 PM 07-24-2011
About 50 with the children and 10 on the weekends (interviews, cleaning, shopping, paperwork, etc). Does time on these boards count too?
So addicting...
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AnneCordelia 03:09 PM 07-24-2011
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.
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pappyny 03:26 PM 07-24-2011
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!
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laundrymom 03:32 PM 07-24-2011
I am 70 per week children, 14 per day. Plus grocery, banking, cleaning, so about 75 to 77hours.
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CheekyChick 04:48 PM 07-24-2011
Originally Posted by laundrymom:
I am 70 per week children, 14 per day. Plus grocery, banking, cleaning, so about 75 to 77hours.
Yikes!!!
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mac60 03:32 PM 07-24-2011
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.
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Crazy8 03:48 PM 07-24-2011
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.
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nannyde 03:22 PM 07-24-2011
About 55 hours of kids in the house and about five hours a week of non kid hours. So about sixty total.
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littlemissmuffet 08:56 AM 07-28-2011
Originally Posted by nannyde:
About 55 hours of kids in the house and about five hours a week of non kid hours. So about sixty total.
Same here.
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squareone 11:57 AM 07-28-2011
55 hours of actual daycare and about 6 hours of related work like laundry, shopping, meal planning, curriculum planning, paperwork, etc.
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dEHmom 06:19 AM 07-26-2011
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.
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GotKids 06:56 AM 07-26-2011
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.
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Meyou 07:08 AM 07-26-2011
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.
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GretasLittleFriends 09:45 AM 07-26-2011
Originally Posted by MarinaVanessa:
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.
What about cont ed classes required by dc licensure? My accountant said these hours count. As well as mileage to/from and also the cost of the classes.

Now I don't count time shopping... I don't buy separate groceries for daycare. I couldn't imagine counting up the hours I've spent garage sale-ing as I more often than not come home with something for the dckids. I do keep track of what I bought and how much it was though.

I work on average 60 to 70 hours a week with kids present. I often do paperwork, clean-up, and those duties while kids are here. I often have children who stay until 10:30p, and bed time is 8p, so that gives me 2.5 hours to do those things after kiddos are in bed. I'll usually spend 2 to 4 hours on weekends without kids here doing daycare stuff that didn't get done during the week. So I guess I average 75 hours total.
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MarinaVanessa 03:34 PM 07-26-2011
What about cont ed classes required by dc licensure? My accountant said these hours count.

As far as I know, the only time that you can count is the time that you spend in your home doing DC related things like cleaning, preparing, planning, watching kids etc. I'm not sure that the time you spend in classes required by licensing are any different, I'll have to recheck that, I know I wasn't able to claim the time that I was at my licensing orientation which is required, only the mileage.

As well as mileage to/from and also the cost of the classes.



Now I don't count time shopping... I don't buy separate groceries for daycare. I couldn't imagine counting up the hours I've spent garage sale-ing as I more often than not come home with something for the dckids. I do keep track of what I bought and how much it was though.

Time spent shopping even when DC related can't be counted, only the mileage to and from the trips and of course the amount that is spent on DC related things (DC only things are 100% deductible, items shared by DC and your family like toilet paper, cleaning supplies etc are partially deductible based on your time/space %).
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