Quote Originally Posted by Emilys4Guppies View Post
What points have you had to reference the most to parents as a reminder(Late Pick-up Policy, I imagine, lol)?
No notice when they are dropping off late!!!! It is'nt a huge issue, but an inconvinience, I am 'dealing' with 2 or 3 times a week with at least 2 of my families! I run a fairly busy schedule with the respect that we attend activities outside of the daycare, sometimes leaving as early as 8:30 am. So, I have a policy that parents must notify me by 8 am via phone call, text message, or email, so I can plan accordingly or the children aren't sitting in the van waiting for them to arrive. I write a reminder monthly to all the families, I am continually posting it as a policy reminder as well.

I have one family I can't seem to reach, she will email me at 8:45," oh we are running late, do you have any plans?" (all my families are scheduled to arrive at 7:30 am)

There was one day she arrived at 9:30 and got upset with me that I refused to serve a second snack. After almost a year of the one family consistently doing this, I have now just said that if you don't notify me on time I will assume your child will be absent for the day and no learning materials, snack, etc will be prepared for your child's morning activities, because at 8 is free play and those are my few 'stolen' moments to prepare for the day for the children who are present or have confirmed they are running late.