Originally Posted by Unregistered:
"This is why I, as a provider, have a half-rate policy for sick days. On days that a child is kept home because of sickness, I only charge half their regular rate. This way I don't go completely broke, but it gives a bit of an incentive to the parent to keep their child from infecting all of the other kids. I haven't had any long-term sickness-related absences yet, so I'll have to cross that bridge when I get to it. But I definitely would not want to penalize the good parents that do keep their kids home when they're sick.
Good grief! What is this world coming to? We need to provide parents with incentive to take care of thier kids! That breaks my heart. Thank God I don't have a single parent, now or in my 8 years of daycare experience, that needed an incentive to WANT to be with thier child when they are ill.
Personally, as a parent I would be ashamed to suggest that I would prefer to dump my sick child on someone else as opposed to shelling out a few dollars for daycare.
I wish people would consider these things BEFORE they had kids.