What do other daycares think of this situation?

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Just thought I would update this post since it has been a few months.

The daycare provider that cancelled the contract and cashed our deposit cheque should have owed us two more weeks of care because she was paid by cashing the deposit cheque. Well, for the next two days she called me saying she was sick so I couldn't drop him off. The day after that, I showed up with him and stayed for a while. He of course was fussing/clingy and she kept saying "he really doesn't like it here", "he's going to have such a bad day", "are you sure you want to leave him here? I don't think he wants to stay" etc...Things to make me say "yeah, your right I'll just not go to work again today and stay home with him". It was clear she basically didn't want to take care of him in spite of the fact she had been paid for the next two weeks by cashing the two weeks deposit cheque. I'm not leaving him with a person who clearly at that point wanted nothing to do with him. He obviously by that time did not want to stay there either.

Thank God I have awesome parents who drove an hour each way for two weeks to take care of my son during the day so I wouldn't be fired from my job. I called a few of the other daycare providers we had first interviewed but one had filled her spot and the other isn't doing her startup daycare anymore because she didn't get enough kids. So we started looking around again. After interviewing anybody we could at this point that had space (about 5 interviews) we decided on one. He loves it there. The first week he fussed a bit at drop off but after that he was totally fine. He loved the other kids right from the start (no idea why he hated the other girl's daughter so much). I am so grateful there are normal people out there in this business!!

I'll also add that at the time she was supposed to be taking care of him they were just finishing building their new McMansion in the new sub-division a little ways from where they were living (she let me know at the start of his care that in a months time the daycare would be in the new house) The house they were currently living in had been on the market for a few months and still had not sold. She was planning on running a daycare to stay home with her daughter instead of going back to work. The old house as of today still has not sold so they have basically been paying for two houses for the past few months, and I have a very good feeling that they needed some money asap. So, I really do think she cashed my cheque without ever really intending on providing the care because she was going back to work. I realize that some situations can make otherwise good people do bad things, but still. Our new daycare provider has a 30 day grace period, where either party can cancel care if it isn't working out for any reason. After the 30 days the rules of the contract apply, which I think is a good idea.