part time children take much longer to transition. I too only take full time children now but when I was taking part time I insisted they come full time for the first 4 weeks and then they could go part time after that . but I found it very hard to find kids to fill the off days and for my area its just easier to take on full time kids. my part time is a minimum of 3 days per week. so 2 days and 1/2 days would be a nightmare...... good luck ....