Breakfast

Your daycare, your rules, and you should stress that you want ALL of the children to follow the same schedule for meals, activities, sleep and everything else. You can say it nicely. If they have to change their schedule at home, then that's what they must do. THAT is NOT your PROBLEM!!!

I serve breakfast/morning snack as soon as all of the children arrive, currently that's at 8:30am. Then we are out of the house at 9am until 11-11:30 when we arrive back home for me to make lunch for 11:30-12:00. Then I serve afternoon snack at about 3-3:30 after nap. This way I'm feeding the children every 3 hours or so. It works perfectly for me, so the childrren who arrive at 7:40 & 8:00 have usually had an early snack with their parents at home to tide them over until 8:30 because my dcparents know my routine, period.

I started finding that those who supposedly ate breakfast at home, were eating nothing or just junk, and then they were not making it till 1030am snack time. And so I have breaky for those who go to school at 730am and those who don't eat at 830am. It works out great, and I don't have to worry about anyone being hungry and grouchy and really, breakfast is the easiest meal for me lol!

also you have to remember that not every kid wakes up and can eat right away. My own kids, even thou they eat breakfast everyday, need about a half hour to wake up. And we all know how some kids can be pokey in the morning eating breakfast.