Hello all,

I am new here. I just started doing daycare for a neighbor who had to return to work after a leave of absence. Her husband was working contract work, just 3 or 4 days at a time, then a week off. So I was 'on call', but lots of breaks in between.

Yesterday, they informed me that he would take a full-time nights job starting last night. So now he wants to leave the kids for 4 to 6 hours (he won't know how long), every day. Today he fell asleep and didn't bring the kids until 10 am. (yes, that means a 3 yo and 4 yo were playing while he slept). They were here for only 4 hrs today, but had morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack. I felt like I spent the whole time preparing food and then he picked them up right after their afternoon snack!

Would you charge more? How would you set up a fee for this type of day? Tomorrow he said he'll drop them off earlier so that he can just go to sleep. So, maybe it will be 6 hrs and I'll be able to justify charging for a full day.

Thanks in advance for your advice!