then you at least turn up on time to drop your child off?
I am currently providing a family member with two days' of childcare per week. I am happy to do this and enjoy having her DD, but the mum's lack of timekeeping is really getting annoying.
She works 5 days a week but works different hours all the time as her hours are very flexible. I am constantly having to chase her up each week to find out which hours I am having her DD on my days that week.
She will then say a time that she'll arrive in the morning to drop her DD off, but her timekeeping isn't brilliant, and sometimes she is up to an hour late arriving at mine.
Like I said, I am happy to look after her DD, but I have DCs of my own, and work from home on a freelance basis, so I always have plenty that I could be doing in that time if she told me in the first place that she would be dropping off later. Last week on one of the days she was an hour late, and a friend had actually asked me that day if I wanted to go to the gym with her first thing, and I'd declined because I was babysitting, but I could actually have gone had I known about the lateness. I also think it's quite disrespectful to just assume I'll sit around twiddling my thumbs for an hour, and then of course that extra hour is added on to the end of her working day, so I end up finishing my babysitting duties later than planned, which sometimes has a knock on effect if I have other plans.
I have asked the family member to let me know in future if she'll be late dropping off, but she seems to think that it's no big deal if she's late, and that I'm being uptight.
I do the childcare for free btw.