Does anyone here do drop in care? How do you handle it?

I have a family here now who has been for 4 months. Two great kids, easy and considerate parents. Mom's employment has changed a bit, she's a teacher and wasn't able to find part-time like she wanted, so she plans on subbing next year.

She would like to keep them here, as would I, but I'm also not a big risk taker. She intends to do 2-3 days a week, which would work out to be equal to what I'm making now (as I plan on taking another little guy in October). It would be nice to have some easy days in the mix, since the new one will be a baby... but on the other hand, thats 2 spots that would be taken up for potentially no income, depending on the week.

I was thinking that I would tell them that they need to send them here a minimum of 1 day/week (or at least pay me for it), just to cover myself a bit.

Any thoughts? Advice?


By the way, thanks so much everyone! There's alway so much help and good advice on here. I'm so glad I found this forum, it's made the isolation so much easier to handle!