Thanks! The reason I wanted to add the drop in center thing is because I texted all the parents bc MY son possibily had pneumonia. All the parents decided to keep their kids home, obviously. Except one. She doesn't have a job and she said, "I'm sorry, I have too much to do today to have her with me." Meanwhile, my son is having trouble breathing and I want to take him to the clinic. I ended up calling her and telling her she had to come pick up her daughter and I would reimburse her for the day. She was furious when she picked up her daughter, was even crying. She doesn't work! Can one day with her daughter be that terrible?! Like, it's as if she wasn't even concerned that her daughter could contract a serious illness.
Luckily, my son didn't have pneumonia, but he had croup, which can be just as serious.

Then again this morning, one of the other parents asked if they had to pay for the day that my son was sick. I said yes. They didn't like that answer. I said, I was open and everyone CHOSE to keep their kids at home. If I had closed it would be a different story, but I was open and you chose to keep your son at home.

I am really struggling with this type of thing. I mean, it's one thing is their kid is sick, and I ask them to stay home, but it's another thing if it's my son who is sick. Now, I'm afraid he's going to get the other kids sick and they're going to be upset bc they still have to pay for care.

Two of my families are first time daycare families, so they don't really understand or appreciate the rules. Now I'm wondering if I should add the closure thing to the letter too. I don't want to, but I always feel these issues need to be addressed so that I don't have to be unexpectedly contronted about them at 7:30 in the morning.

I don't like daycare politics. Can't we just take care of the kids and they just leave us alone?? lol