Advice needed asap. Holding fee

[Monday 2 Friday Mama]

Good morning Gramma. I'd be careful charging parents holding fee's. Maybe some of the ladies here will be more knowledgeable than me, but I seem to recall CRA regulations say that we can't charge parents to hold spots. What might work better (and be more palatable to the Mum) is if you tell her that she will need to pay one or two days worth of dues every week until she is ready to start up full time. Tell her that she is free to use those two days of care - spin it as a super long transition period for the little one - or not - whatever her needs are that week. In an ideal world, she'll be delighted to have a child free day each week where she can get things done. i.e. dental appointments, meeting with her boss to organize her back to work schedule, etc. She should still pay a deposit of two weeks dues to be applied to her child's last two weeks of care. I did this with my daycare babies and most parents have been quite happy with the arrangement.

[apples and bananas]

Good morning Gramma. I'd be careful charging parents holding fee's. Maybe some of the ladies here will be more knowledgeable than me, but I seem to recall CRA regulations say that we can't charge parents to hold spots. What might work better (and be more palatable to the Mum) is if you tell her that she will need to pay one or two days worth of dues every week until she is ready to start up full time. Tell her that she is free to use those two days of care - spin it as a super long transition period for the little one - or not - whatever her needs are that week. In an ideal world, she'll be delighted to have a child free day each week where she can get things done. i.e. dental appointments, meeting with her boss to organize her back to work schedule, etc. She should still pay a deposit of two weeks dues to be applied to her child's last two weeks of care. I did this with my daycare babies and most parents have been quite happy with the arrangement.

I love this idea. Seems very fair and if you can afford to only have 2 days a week for a while, it will give you a bit of a light load and an easy transition when the child is ready for full time. Great idea!