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They just want to pay for the days they need day care and not have any obligations for any scheduled days should they not need it. It's called drop in care. LOTS of people want drop in care but few are willing to pay a rate that would make it worth it to the provider to only receive income when the parents needed care. What people want is drop in care for a daily rate that is equivallent to one fifth of a week of full time care. What people really want is that one fifth daily rate to be cheap too.
You are always going to run into people who want dependable drop in care that is cheap and always a "yes you can come whenver you want". The problem is finding a provider who can afford to just have the income when someone happens to need them that day.
Many many parents believe that what they are paying for is the physical care and supervision of the child on the day they bring them. Providers who only charge for that go out of business real quick like. There's no money in physical care and supervision of children. The money is in the "housing" of the child and the utilities and goods, equipment and space needed to physically have the child in the house. That has to be paid for whether the child attends or not. The physical care and supervision is a small fraction of the cost. Parents believe it IS what they are paying for. That disconnect is what leads parents and providers coming to the relationship with completely different mindsets. It's our job to educate them about what they are really paying for. It means having the conversation that's not in their financial best interest. It means saying that what they believe they are paying for is really incidental to what we need to be able to offer services.
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