How do you go about informing your daycare families that you need to raise your rates? I have a feeling i'm underpaid for my area compared with other daycare centers. I just recently added a new full time child which put us in a new bracket for liability insurance. so our insurance went up and I think i need to rethink my rates. I haven't raised rates for 3 years and all of my daycare families are people that work at my husbands job so I know them and i'm friends with them. They have had the same rates for 3 years and I feel bad changing them, but then again, I need to be fair to myself as well. So how do you all inform your families of the rate changes? is there a template somewhere that doesn't sound too formal?

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