I charge whether they are here or not so the parents send them. I can't lie and say it doesn't bother me if I know they are home but it isn't my place to judge how they are spending their paid for time.

It would be nice if they were at least picked up early on a day like that. I do have to admit that it doesn't happen too often but I have had the occasional parent who drops wearing pj pants and with morning breath and tell me they are going right back to bed and then to get their hair done afterwards because they took a "me" day. It makes me feel so old to say that I have never had a "me" day in 21 years of parenting.

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