I should clarify if I am on vacation or sick no I do not provide back up - only if I had short appointment and did not want to take the whole day off to deal with it ;)
Printable View
I should clarify if I am on vacation or sick no I do not provide back up - only if I had short appointment and did not want to take the whole day off to deal with it ;)
I don't provide back-up care. If an ermgency comes up and I am sick or have an appointment that can't be scheduled in the evening, I just have to tell the parents and they figure out a back-up plan. I hate doing it, but sometimes it does happen. I also do not run errands during daycare hours except for occasionally going through the drive-thru bank machine as others have said. I find it challenging enough to run errands with my own kids without adding 4 more!
LOL - ya I do not have any of my own in my program cause they are grown ... but empathize with the difference between shopping with your own and 'going on a field trip with the daycare' ... I took 5 kids to Costco before Xmas to pick out something for the Angel tree for the program as well as to get ingredients to make our Xmas treats for mom and dads ... and we had a grand time because A) they are NOT mine they behave like angels and B) they see this as a 'treat' getting to do this C) if they do not behave we LEAVE because I do not NEED to do this for them ... needless to say I bumped into a client who was doing some Xmas shopping of her own and commented to her kids 'here I dropped you off at daycare cause you cannot manage doing errands with me - yet you behave so nicely with your friends -whats up with that?' and they honesty replied 'you yell at us when we shop - our daycare friends sing songs and play games' ... they are 4 and 6 years old and well honest kids... poor mama in that moment but the truth is we were not 'rushing' through an errand on a time frame to just 'get er done' this was part of the program - we were talking our time, talking about the things we saw, discussing what was best to buy for the angel tree and so forth and while waiting in line we play games of 'I spy' or sing to pass the time ... where I KNOW when I run ERRANDS I am rushing to get them done and generally tired and not feeling like 'signing in the line up in front of strangers' ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kangaroomama