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What Hours Do You Consider Half Day?
For those of you that do, or have in the past offered half-day...
What hours do you consider half day? Also are your half day children there for lunch, which leads to the question what time do you serve lunch? In my area these are some that I have seen: 9AM - 12:00PM 8:30AM - 12:30PM 9:30AM - 12:30PM 8:30AM - 1:00PM 8:45AM - 11:45AM When I see the later times I wonder when do their children each lunch and when do the extended day children nap... |
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AM block is 7-11 and PM block is 2-5 ANY care that includes lunch and rest/nap time is a full day as those are the hardest/most chaotic hours of the day. I charge about 2/3rds my daily rate for half days otherwise it's just not worth my time. Half days are only available to regularly enrolled families. Anyone else that does not attend would be considered drop in and drop in is one flat daily rate and they can not be the dropped off or picked up within the first/last half hour of the day. |
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Right now I have a child from 12-5. Lunch is served at 12 so eventhough the parents wanted her to come from 1-5 (basically late lunch and nap), I told them that I was not willing to do that. I have also done 8:30am to 12:30pm for school.
I serve lunch anywhere from 11:30 - 12 depending on the kids I have and their particular hours. |
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My half days are blocks. I'm open 7-5 so AM is 7-11:30 & PM is 12:30-5. Neither include lunch.
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A half day is anything UNDER 6 hours (I don't put restrictions on times). Anything from 6-10 hours gets a different price. And I have one family that is over 10 hours so they pay an even higher price.
I serve whatever meal the child is here for no matter if they are full or part time. |
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The only time I do not allow drop offs is during nap time (which is 12-2). But I have a parent who's schedule changes.....sometimes it is a full day other times it is only 4-5 hours. I'm ok with that |
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I could set it different I suppose since I don't accept vouchers, but too many people wanted half days instead of full days so I just stopped it because it was too hard to fill the empty hours daily & it was screwing up naps at one point if the kids were off schedule. I know a few providers that take only accept FT children |
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I would only do half days in the afternoon during nap.
If they come for the morning and just leave for nap it's full day at my three pm departure rate. If they come for nap and go straight to sleep and are picked up by four, I would consider a half day rate. But... they must nap. Never had anyone take me up on that.
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I don't do half day rates. For drop in, I charge a daily rate, whether it's for one hour or ten. I don't do part time, either, unless I really want the child and I really need the income. When I do part-time, it's only about 30% less than my full time rate, it's paid weekly, and can't be over 20 hours a week.
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I do offer a half-day program, however currently don't have any enrolled in that program. The hours I use are 8:30 to 12:30, although upon recent reflection I think I might amend that to 8:00 to 12:00, simply because most if not all of the children are usually going down for nap by 12:00 and having a pick-up after that time has been disruptive and difficult in the past.
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~Do you mean leave at/or right before nap time? "If they come for nap and go straight to sleep and are picked up by four, I would consider a half day rate" ~If they come right at nap time you mean? What time is nap? |
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I charge by the day. Anything over nine hours has extra $ added on
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Due to other obligations in the afternoon both to my own dd and to my own studies to advance myself in ECE I will not be open past 3PM so I am only offering one preschool block. When you say half days are only offered to regularly enrolled families does that mean they can be "regularly enrolled" as part time or what exactly does that mean? At my dd's preschool they did drop-in days for kids enrolled part time already (and not to the public) is that kind of what you mean? |
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I do have 1 family that attends 2 days a week and I do offer them the option of using a half day when they want but it's usually ONLY after they've used or paid for their obligatory 2 days per week. They were more or less grandfathered in years ago and it's worked so we just leave it alone. Most my families are 4 days a week Those families have the option of using a half day here and there when they want to. |
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I have 8:30-12:30 listed as half day but honestly I never take anyone for it as it would take away from a full day spot. I used to say "under 5 hours" but then had the whole nap time dilemma so changed it.
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