View Poll Results: Sign in/out
Yes
35
63.64%
No
20
36.36%
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awestbrook713 01:09 PM 01-04-2012
How many of you have parents sign their kids in and out? I just started this mainly for records for the state paid kids but figured I would do it for all, the parents keep looking at me like I'm asking for a million dollars each time I ask them to sign, where does all this laziness come from these days
WImom 01:10 PM 01-04-2012
We are required by licensing even if we don't take state paid or particpate in the food program.
Blackcat31 01:13 PM 01-04-2012
I require everyone to sign in and out as well.
Signing in and out each day is great business practice in many ways.
I bill according to pick up time. If a parent forgets to sign in or out, they are billed for the whole day. Amazing how everyone remembers when there is money attached.
daycare 01:17 PM 01-04-2012
I do it for many reason
1. Taxes, it is proof that their child was present in my car.I tell parents that they are throwing their own money away when they don't sign it.
2. Can be used as a court document. I have actually had mine called into court for a couple that was going through a divorce. The dad was not dropping of when he was supposed to or was picking up late causing late fees, then expecting the mom to pay them. It also showed that the dad was not picking up on the days that he was supposed to have the kid and the dad was busted. Since the mom was the one signing the kid out on dads day.
3.In the event of an emergency. It will show who was or was not in my care that day. This way if something happens to a child I can show if the child was in my care or not... Remeber that case where the mom said the girl was at the daycare, but the girl was not....I think it was the casey anthony case??
4. Food program
awestbrook713 01:22 PM 01-04-2012
Well I should have been doing it from the beginning but I am still learning and started this for 2012. I am just floored by how much issue I am having with it. Just sign the paper and go jeeze.
SandeeAR 01:27 PM 01-04-2012
Started it my 2nd year. Told them my CPA required it for proof for the IRS.
daycare 01:31 PM 01-04-2012
Originally Posted by awestbrook713:
Well I should have been doing it from the beginning but I am still learning and started this for 2012. I am just floored by how much issue I am having with it. Just sign the paper and go jeeze.
do you have a penalty for not signing it??
I have a time sheet for everyone, but I don't have the parents do it. I just write in the time myself. I can see, however, the benefits of having them doing it as a way to prove without a doubt that the child was in your care at a certain time.
renodeb 09:30 AM 01-24-2012
I have to have a sign in/out book for the food program and for my own records. Now getting the parents to remember is a totally other issue!
Debbie