Stat holidays

[5 Little Monkeys]

I take off 11 paid days a year. I charge a holiday rate for these days and for any days the child is out of my care, IF I am given notice before payment is paid. I charge $32 normally but holiday rate is $22.

This year, I am off the Thursday/Friday for Christmas/Boxing day, paid. I am off Thursday, paid, for New Year's Day. I chose to take the Friday, Jan 2nd off unpaid because I wasn't going to open for just one day.

In the years past, I have had all parents off the entire week of Christmas and I think by having the holiday rate, this helped keep their child at home too. This year however, I have a few parents who will send their child to me no matter what, so it doesn't help LOL. Oh well, this year I don't have any huge plans so it won't kill me to be open....but I sure got spoiled and used to being closed with payment!! lol

For my partimers....I stupidly started with part time but only have one left on the old contract. She has been grandfathered in on some rules. For example, stat holidays for her are charged every other one regardless if it's a day she would be here or not. Sometimes they luck out and pay less and sometimes they have to pay more than normal. I now have a new contract and only one part timer on it (the others are full time) and he pays for every stat. I don't charge a higher rate for part time so I don't feel guilty doing this. I didn't want the hassle of "oh I wasn't going to send him that day so I didn't think I'd have to pay for that stat"...this way it keeps nice and easy!