Originally Posted by judytrickett:
I work a nine hour day. Not a minute more. I do not care for kids longer even for extra money or late fees. Come 4:30pm I expect every child to be off my property. I do not/will not work any later for one simple reason - I DON'T WANT TO.
If there is one thing I know it is this - the longer you are open the longer parents will leave their kids in daycare regardless of whether it is needed or not.
I am the same- a 9 hr. day is enough for me!!!! That is 45 hrs. a week!!! That is an 8 hr. day, 1/2 hr. lunch, and 1/2 hr. commute. When I first started doing daycare, I lived in a small town, and many would have to drive, some 1 hr. each way- I was open for 11 1/2 hrs. then one was always late, so technically, I had to be open for 12 hrs. I hated it!!!! Then I was getting paid there, $25.00 per day for 12 hrs!!!! No thanks!!!! ONce we moved, I set my hrs. lower and lower, and families kept abusing them, and abusing them, now they are set!!!!