I have a lovely CM who minds my DS 2 days a week. she also minds child A 5 days a week, and child B 3 days.
all 3 children are the same age, but the other 2 start pre-school this autumn (my DS doesn't as they are on either side of the age cut off for school starting IYSWIM?). my baby will be going 2 days a week soon when she's 7 months.
anyway, when we started using CM, she had on her online profile that she does pickup/drop off for school X, as her kids go there. she does the school run with DS when he's there, and it's ~10 minutes each way, on foot. DS won't go to school X as we have 3 closer schools.
other two mums have said their children will be going to pre-school this autumn, one to school Y (a 20 minute drive in one direction) one to school Z (20 minutes drive in the opposite direction). they both think CM should be doing the drive to pick up etc, as 'we pay her to do it'. I am NOT happy with the idea of my 2 children spending 40+ minutes in the car to drop the 2 other children off, then another 40+ minutes 2-3 hours later. if I wanted them to do this, they'd go to my work nursery those days...
neither mum has broached the subject with CM yet, but have told me it will be happening - I've suggested that it might not be, as CM has to pick up her own child from school X, and often doesn't have the car (plus which, 3 pre-schoolers and a baby in one car is going to be, um, interesting) - they do not see this as an issue.
what do other CMs do in this sort of situation? is it normal to do so many school drops and pickups?