Siblings....

[Judy Trickett]

I find siblings to be a financial risk and I am always leery about accepting them into care. I will ONLY accept a sibling set if they basically came to me by immediate referral or their first child was in my care. I NEED to know that the parents are good, normal people and that they have secure jobs. Because, as someone said, they make up 40% of your income. I also find they assume to have more "clout" with respect to how your daycare runs. Make no mistake about it - the parents also realize they make up 40% of your income and they mistakenly often assume that buys them some vote.

[Spixie33]

I started out with 2 siblings in my care (1 and 3 year old) coming twice a week. I liked that they were coming only twice a week because it bolstered my income almost the same as 1 full time child would have but in half the time.

I thought that siblings would be easier but the ones I had - walked in the door and ignored each other the whole time. You would never have thought they were siblings. They never played or barely acknowledged each other. Mom said it was probably because they were tired of each other from home. lol

I didn't see any advantage to having siblings.

In retrospect....the idea of 2 FULL time siblings probably would make me wary because it is hard to replace two spots at once.

I didn't give a discount for the siblings and I think everyone is right who said that it still costs the same for food, craft supplies and your time whether they are from the same uterus or not. lol