Tired of chasing parents for payment

[mattsmom]

It's a new part time parent that has been with me for the past month or so. She knows she has to send payment by noon on the Friday, yet when she came to pick up, she said she totally forgot and she would send it as soon as she got home. Well, by an hour and a half after she left, she hadn't sent it, I sent her an email reminding her. I finally got an email back from her at 10 am Saturday morning saying that she got busy and couldn't get it sent but she is sending it now.
This happened 2 weeks ago as well! She didn't send it until almost ten the Friday night after I had to remind her!

I do have a late fee, but it doesn't seem to matter. I also have a clause in my contract that care does not resume until fees are paid. But if I need that money to pay a bill on the Friday or wanting to use it sometime on the weekend then I couldn't.

It just irks me that people don't realize that we depend on this money!