Closing - when to give notice?

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What you do is keep the pregnancy secret and when they finally find out and come right out and ask you just say undecided or something to that effect that keeps your options open. Then you can probably buy yourself an extra month at least while they give you the benefit of the doubt. As in the closer to close date before you say something the better.

At the same time if you do have school age kids that would need to use the before/after program even if mom doesn't wait to put their names on the list they still won't start till at least July possibly Sept so that actually works. You could also speak privately with that parent and tell them that you are not keeping the school age kids anyways no matter what you decided and suggest she make plans for the summer - again in most cases spaces won't open till summer anyways.