Take on family members as daycare clients?

[Inspired by Reggio]

Oh honey only you can answer this cause you know your SIL and your relationship best but IME there is a reason why they say never mix business with pleasure

My advice is that if you DO mix business with pleasure make the rules the SAME for family as for everyone else ~ no special and no blurring of the lines when you are in care its your business hat being worn!

I made this mistake when I opened 5 years ago and it did not end well at all ~ I allowed my nephew to come while my brother was suppose to be looking for work, they claimed they could not afford to pay me until my brother started working but because my nephew was suppose to be in JK and I was homeschooling him he had to come daily in order for him to get exposure he would be if he was in school so he was here full time for 9 months without paying ... in April I found out that they had renovated their entire kitchen despite not being able to 'afford' childcare and my feelings were obviously HURT because I felt taken advantage of ... so in the May my SIL got laid off as well so I told them I could not keep doing this for FREE since they were both home now and could cover each other for any interviews yada yada ... so they pulled him and told me as soon my brother got work she wanted to send him back because she was getting EI and doing some union training and they would need care ... well I found out my brother got work with 4 days of her getting laid off and yet three weeks passed and they did not send him back so permanently I filled the space with someone who had been picking up the days and wanted full time care ... and than 3 weeks after I did that she calls wanting to send him because her training is starting and well I am full now cause I assumed they changed their mind since my brother had been working for 6 weeks and they had not sent him back ~ and she lost it on me and because they had no care she made my brother take sick leave from his new job so she could do her Union training and my brother lost his new job as a result and she blamed ME to everyone in my family ... so needless to say I am still not speaking to my SIL or my brother either cause it just got ugly.

Family and money rarely ends well .... if you do do this make sure they PAY just like everyone else and keep the relationship 'professional'!