Tricky Question

[Mum2Boo]

Crys: I really feel for you in this situation. I have just come out the other side of something similar in terms of a friend taking advantage of the services I offer.
My friend was offered a reduced daycare rate, a flexible drop in contract, I opened early and stayed open late. My daughter is BFF's with the dcg too. All in the name of friendship & helping support her children through their parents separating.
My "friend" took advantage after advantage of the situation & consistently used her personal issues and children as the reasoning behind all her actions, she did the drop a sick child with me too.
It all culminated in her taking money off my daily rate as the children's father had picked them up from school!
It was the last stage that made me realise enough is enough & that she did not have the same respect for the friendship as I did.
When I stepped back and looked at the situation from a DCP point of view & not a friendship view, I realised that I wouldn't let another DCF get anyway with the same issues!
As I was so stressed about it all, it was affecting the way I felt over the course of a day so in turn was affecting the running of the daycare.
I gave her two weeks notice, I did have a good reason for doing so.
Luckily for me for the first time she actually showed some understanding....in all honesty I think she saw it coming & knew that she had over stepped the mark once too often.

So my long winded point is. Maybe it's worth looking at the situation and deciding what is best for you and your full time DCK's in terms of stress levels. It's hard I know, but I breathed a long sigh of relief when it was over. As did my DCK's and DCParents