Spin - Do you charge for YOUR vacation days?

[daisy]

I am beginning to realize how fortunate I am - I have been doing this for 7 years - In my child care agreement I account for, 2 weeks vacation (usually in the summer but not always), the usual stats, the days between Christmas & New Years. I also have 6 sick/personal days and if necessary - 5 bereavement days. Lucky, I know. I also require payment at the beginning of each month in form of post-dated cheques so there is no haggling over fees. Again, I am feeling very, very fortunate with the choices I have been able to make regarding my business. I don't know I could do it otherwise.

[Lee-Bee]

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!