Advice on Payment please!!!!!!

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Hi just wondered if anyone might tell me if this is reasonable: I have mindee 10 hours a day, going to nursery in september, mum taking her so now will have her 6 hours a day, so have reduced money for these hours and added a 2.50 a day pick up charge from school. Does this seem fair only mum complaning about pick up charge!!
Also still wants a full time place for any school hols, so am i limited to take another full timer as this would put me over on numbers when hols arrive. Any advice would be graet Thanks

i wouldn't have changed my rates at all. you cant get another child to fill that place now. i would still charge for a ft place and if she's arguing tell her she's very welcome to look round to see what others childminders charge.
if she does find one then at least you can fill the ft space properly. imo.

thanks for the advice LoveMyGirls, if it was for the two hours she was at nursery i would charge her but what do you think as its four hours as mum taking her to school and she would normally drop of at 7.30.

i think it depends on how much you need the money/ business.

personally i would charge for the hours requested in your original contract if she cannot agree to those and i was going to be much worse off (more than i could afford) then i would set a fixed ammount of hours say from the time you would be expected to have in holiday times. so if bringing child at 8am in hols i would always charge from 8am. say if she's not happy then say you understand if she would like to look around for other options. Then if she chooses to leave you're not left feeling resentful that you gave in to an agreement you were not comfortable with and at least you can have a mths notice to advertise a proper full time space. on the other hand if you find it hard to fill you're spaces you have to consider that you may lose out completely and could you manage if that happened? (this is probably how she is hoping you will feel and think you will put up with anything so might be a good idea to call her bluff but bear in mind the risk)

I would not have changed rates at all because although she is taking the child to nursery effectivly you are still the minder for her, you cannot fill that couple of hours she is there and she still wants to retain the full time place for holidays etc so she should be paying you for those hours ar at the very least a retainer fee for the hours that child is at nursery but that she wants you to have them over the holidays.