I've noticed a few parents using longer hours now that they are on maternity leave. All of my parents have contracted hours. It seems to be earlier dropoffs and later pickup to increase the length of child's attendance by almost an hour. I understand they are probably exhausted, and could use the extra time, but there has been no discussion with me that things are changing, and to ask me if that's ok. I think that's what irks me is the lack of communication and just assuming that it's ok. Would you increase their daily rate for attendance hours that went up by an hour? It's now become the child who's here from the second I open until the second I close. What would you say to this parent, as it's not the contracted hours I agreed to?
Thanks for your input!