My wife has been a DCP for about 6 months now, and she is absolutely lovin' it! However, with the flu season upon us, we have encountered our biggest obstacle yet.
When you have an occasional doctor's appointment, I understand that you could simply tell the parents that you are closed on that day. But what do you do, if you have regular doctor's appointments, e.g. once every 2 weeks? Or what if you fall sick and need 3 days of rest?
I think that my wife should hire a temporary substitute that is both, licensed and insured. In fact, I wanted to work with a local staffing agency, e.g.
http://www.tempcare.net, although they may be quite expensive, but then I searched this forum and didn't find any information about such agencies.
Do you think that hiring a substitute is the right thing? What did you do, when you really needed someone to substitute for you?