I don't know how some of you do it with the field trips. I for one am not a fan of them at all. Just way too stressful, and sometimes given the ages of the children, unsafe. Most of my dc families are with me BECAUSE I don't do field trips... I think your daycare families are just going to have to " deal" with it. Yes I would do something a little more formal telling them that moving forward you are not doing/ reducing the amount of field trips for X reason.