It is very hard when it is our own kids that are sick. We want to drop everything and devote our time to them. What we have to remember is that part of having a home based business is that our children sort of cease to be ours and become part of the collective community - you become mom to 7 not 2. Each has needs and all have to be met even if it is your own child that has to wait, go without once in awhile or whatever. You can still sit on the couch and cuddle any child that needs it while they others play on the floor or watch tv quietly. I can totally understand when parents get upset that we do not value their time, work committments etc as we said we would when we opened the daycare just because we dont' want to do daycare for a day and we want to just be a mom. Businesses that don't put their customers first don't last long in business. Now not saying that can totally apply to us in daycare because our families, our kids our home is such an integral part of it all but we have to try and come to some decisions on where the mom part stops and the daycare business person starts and how to make the two work together.