Yes this is the challenge with this industry ~ we really need to decide on our hours of business and stick to them otherwise before you know it your starting 15 minutes early for one client, staying late 30 minutes for another and after a while you are working 12 plus hours a day

My program hours are 7:30 - 4:30 for my base fee ... I offer 'extended hour service' as early as 7am and as late as 5pm for an ADDITIONAL FEE.

I made this change heading into my 2nd year in business when I was starting to feel burnt and I wanted to help ensure that clients truly NEED more than 9 hours of service because I have found over my years that often clients will say they 'need' 10 plus hours because the daycare is advertizing they are open those hours and it is really just EASIER to leave the child in care and go run errands and so forth before or after work ~ however when they have to pay EXTRA for those additional hours in additional to the normal '9 hour work day' well suddenly it is not so much trouble to take Johnny to run their errands or they realize it is cheaper to invest in a 'second carseat' so that the other spouse can share in the drop of and pick up to keep the child in daycare less than 9 hours and so forth

Find the hours that work for you and STICK to them hon ... we do not have to say YES to everyone who shows interest in our program it is ok to hold out for the BEST MATCH!