Family comes first! How often are these games? You may need to be prepared to loose families. If so, just start advertising for spots with an earlier closing time. Do you have open hours or contracted hours? How many families would it actually affect their work schedule? I close at 4:30 and care for only teacher's kids. I am in a rural area so their other parent typically commutes quite as ways. They figure it out if I have a closed day or early closure here and there but I would not keep my families if I did it regularly. It is worth it for me to have summers and holidays off. My mother in law also helps here and there to cover appointments but she lives 2 hours away so it's only for special instances.

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