Do you have to bundle the daycare up to go meet the school bus? That was my issue till I stopped doing school age. Kids up to and including grade 1 have to be met directly at the bus stop which can be up to 1/2 kilometer from home although it is usually no more than a block or so. Still that is a long time to stand on the side of the road with infants and toddlers when it is raining or -35 and snowing. Couple that with the fact parents were putting up a fuss about having to pay a full day rate since their child was in school "half days" and said enough and retreated to age 3 and under. By the time we got home from dropping the child off for school and then left home to get them again from school I barely had an hour to an hour and a half to nap the rest of the kids so my entire day was taken up with the needs of the school age child and I expected to be paid for my efforts. Do not miss the older kids any more either. At first I did but once I revamped my lessons to recognize that learning red from blue or counting to 3 instead of 20 was the goal it all settled in nicely.