Justifying your rates

[bright sparks]

I welcome any and all questions from parents. I tell them no question is silly and as this is a question of their childs care, anything with regards to this is ok. I think there are definitly questions that are brought to me which raise flags and may make me think a bit furthur if they are a good fit for me, but I think it is perfectly reasonable for them to talk money with me. I think to word the question as "Please justify your rate to me", has a very arrogant tone to it and isn't the currect way to ask me about this subject. I can't imagine anyone actually wording that way, but you never know, but if a parent were to ask me why a perfectly good daycare down the road from me charges $5 less a day I think that's a perfectly okay question. I don't think it necessairily means they aren't willing to pay it or that cheap daycare takes presidence over quality daycare. I think people can take this protective/defensive stance on it but I think it's a complete over reaction and sometimes can just be a misinterpretation of a parent's feelings and on their part a poorly communicated question. I'd respond with my own comments and questions surrounding this before being quick to strike them off. It might simply be because they have comparisons to make between differenet daycares and maybe they have taken the advice of someone to include this into their list of questions. It doesn't automatically make them shallow or all about the money above the quality of care their child would recieve.

[MonkeyPrincess]

I welcome any and all questions from parents. I tell them no question is silly and as this is a question of their childs care, anything with regards to this is ok. I think there are definitly questions that are brought to me which raise flags and may make me think a bit furthur if they are a good fit for me, but I think it is perfectly reasonable for them to talk money with me. I think to word the question as "Please justify your rate to me", has a very arrogant tone to it and isn't the currect way to ask me about this subject. I can't imagine anyone actually wording that way, but you never know, but if a parent were to ask me why a perfectly good daycare down the road from me charges $5 less a day I think that's a perfectly okay question. I don't think it necessairily means they aren't willing to pay it or that cheap daycare takes presidence over quality daycare. I think people can take this protective/defensive stance on it but I think it's a complete over reaction and sometimes can just be a misinterpretation of a parent's feelings and on their part a poorly communicated question. I'd respond with my own comments and questions surrounding this before being quick to strike them off. It might simply be because they have comparisons to make between differenet daycares and maybe they have taken the advice of someone to include this into their list of questions. It doesn't automatically make them shallow or all about the money above the quality of care their child would recieve.

I just want to clarify. No one has actually asked me to "justify" my rates. I think i may have chosen the wrong word to describe what i wanted to ask. but i totally agree that if anyone were to actually word their question like that, i would totally be taken aback. Asking someone to justify their rates is very rude, i agree. And no, i don't ask my dentist to justify his rates. LOL. I go to him because i have gone to him for 15 years and he does good work and i like him!