What do you all think I should charge for school age children? I currently charge $90 a week for preschoolers (which is considered on the higher rate scale for my area). I need to know what to charge for b/a school care and what to charge on school breaks when the child is here all day. I haven't provided care for schoolagers before, but one of my families has a preschooler enrolled and now needs care for their schoolager when child isn't in school. I actually think school agers are more work and hassle than preschoolers, require more food, more entertainment (they're always "bored" no matter what you give them to do), have major attitudes to deal with, talk back more, etc. but everyone charges less for them, for some reason but how much less should it be? On school breaks the child would be here the same hours as the preschooler ($90/week or $18/day). So what would you charge weekly or daily for all day care, and weekly or daily for b/a school care?

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