I do charge full fees for my vacation (4weeks total). None of my families questioned this at all. I do not charge for sick days...I chose to do this because I feel that little bit less guilty when I have to close last minute and leave families scrambling. I'm sure in the future this will change as I'll feel less guilty about it the more their kids make me sick :-)

I did have a family question why I don't want to be paid for sick days as they thought it was odd and that I should be.

This same family insisted on paying me when I closed last minute to travel to an out of town funeral for 3 days. Since it was last minute and was not holidays I decided to just use unpaid "sick" days. This family felt that it was not appropriate not to pay me, that I wasn't in control of the situation.

I loved the fact they respect me and my daycare enough to insist on paying me more than I loved being paid for the 3 days :-)

Some families just really "get it" and I try hard to only enrol those families!