Fees for overnight care?

[Lee-Bee]

I will be providing overnight care for one of my day home children for one night. It will be from noon on the first day until 7:30 pm the next day. This child is one of my full time children and the parents pay monthly. They would like to know how much I will charge for the overnight and I have no idea. Have any of you done this before? How much have you charged? We already have an agreement in place for after hours care, but I'm don't feel comfortable with charging an hourly rate while the child will just be sleeping.

Charge for the awake hours plus a token fee for the sleep hours. Charge more if you don't want it to become a regular occurance! Did they let on as what they expect to pay? As a nanny I once worked the weekend with one 2yr old so the parents could get a weekend away. They tried to pay me the hourly fee. It was over $600. I refused and pretty much did what I mentioned above. It was a one time thing and I didn't mind losing my weekend. However if it was something that would be more frequent I would charge more as weekends are valuable and it isn't the same when you are working.