Originally Posted by daycare:
as we all say, we can agree to disagree. That would mean that a part time family will never be safe. They were alway be in jeopardy of being termed.
I have kids here part time and its not to save money, its because the parent only want part time so they can spend the rest of the day with raising their child. I have parents that only enroll them for the social aspect of it.
My area is very different than probably most out of 6 of my parents do not work full time. One does not work at all and her child is here from 9:00-3:30 every day.
So for me, PT is quite the norm in my area. Here almost every other household has a mom home.
I do things exactly like JenNJ....and yes daycare, you are right a part time family is never safe but that is not my problem. I do daycare because I need to make money.
Full time brings in more $ than part-time unless I have the perfect part-timer to fill the spaces around each other (which doesn't happen often enough to make it worthwhile) so I choose to take full timers over part timers all the time.
I also do like JenNJ and go to the part timer and offer them the space first, if they choose not to take it, then they are given notice.
I feel bad for families that are in that position but I also refuse to make their part time needs my problem. There are plenty of other daycares that cater to part timers. I just don't happen to be one of them.
