What information do you have on your sign in sheets ? Oklahoma law, only states that attendance records must be kept.

But to CYA, I have had parents put time in/time out on a weekly sheet. This week I added a signature line (still on a weekly sheet) so the line is pretty small - and most parents are initialing. I figure it will never hurt me to have the name (or initials) of the person dropping off/picking up. I like doing the weekly sheets because it is a lot less paper.

Also, how do you handle if a parent forgets to sign in/out ? I usually just fill in the time - but now that I have a signature line - what do you think I should do ? I have been writing the name of the parent that picked up, and initialing my own initials in parenthesis. To signify that I filled this out.

We also use Tadpoles iPhone app for daily reports, photo sharing, and another way to keep track of attendance. It would be nice to set up my old laptop in place of the sign in sheet, and have the parents click their children in on the tadpoles website dashboard - but there will be no way to tell who dropped off/picked up.

I like the tadpoles option, because it is paperless - and also it automatically calculates the number of hours a child is in care - and that will help with contracted hours.

THOUGHTS ?
I always just like to have all my bases covered.

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