It would be about a 35 dollar per week increase for full time and part time. I'm going from 125 to 160 /wk for full time and 85 to 110 for part time.

Most places charge between 140 and 150 per week around here. Most do not do a Montessori/Waldorf type daycare (in fact, we only have 1 and its a preschool only and its always full - they have a waitlist a mile long) so I think its a demand here.

I expect to lose parents due to cost. I know financially some of them are strapped. The way I see it though, if I am willing to put my own family in hard times what am I doing to the kids I watch? I accept financial assistance for childcare and am willing to try and offer workable programs for the financially strained. But my business needs to grow first and I need funds to do that.

"How can you feed a horse with out first growing crops?"

I will have to try hard and no over explain anything. I am the one that wants everyone to see my passion and why I do things, when in the end it comes down to the dollar figures.......mostly.

Reply