Just to see if I'm understand this.. her last enrolled day for the week is Wednesday so parents need to pay on Wednesday for the following week? I do monthly payments so for me it's a little different but shouldn't payment be due either on the Friday or the Monday morning of following week? If a parent chooses to pay on the Wednesday rather than make a special trip to you on the Friday that's different but I personally wouldn't consider it 4 days late come Monday morning.

As for the rest I would wait and see how they settle in. As you said it's a stressful and hectic time in thier own personal lives right now and as a parent finding daycare and dealing with the forms and such required can be hard. If you continue to have these problems it's a different story but I would cut them some slack to begin with. I'm not saying do care without fees or without having your manuals/policies signed off on, I wouldn't let her leave Monday without that being done, but don't see them as "red flags" yet. Keep it in your mind that this has happened but give the benefit of the doubt moving forward.

Maybe it's just the newbie in me talking but sometimes I see a very hard attitude coming from people on this forum. I understand that it is years of experience backing you up in your decisions and advice but ya know.. maybe all parents aren't all bad 100% of the time. Just as we as providers aren't all perfect 100% of the time. They cut as some slack at times and I think we need to be willing to bend a little sometimes too.