Go to contracted hours for your families. Let's say mom has to be at work at 8am and gets out at 4pm. Add into that commute time (1 hour total per day) and set their hours at 7:30 (or 7:15 if you are feeling generous) to 4:30 or 4:45. You are working for 11 hours per day for these families. You are barely making over $2/hour. You can't get a teenage babysitter for that price.

If they want to go shopping, let them do it on their time, not yours. They can go on their lunch if they need to go. Or give him the more generous time (drive time + 15 minutes there and back) and they can pop into the store in that time.

Mom doesn't work until 11 and yet they get the little one(s) up at 6 to leave with dad??? Poor kids!

I have my families with contracted hours and that allows them for up to 10 hours per day. Anything over that is overtime at a LOT more than $2/hour!

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