Okay, I have a moral dilemna and DH thinks I'm totally out of order for even thinking about this. We pay our childminder 12 equal monthly installments even though she doesn't work school holidays and only charges half price for those 13 weeks. I have a nursery place for my two year old dd confirmed for Sep. But obviously I have to find alternative arrangements for her for the summer holidays, (possibly our lovely summer nanny who did it last year). I think it's appropriate therefore to give notice to the childminder the month before the summer holidays and finish dd2 off mid-July, have summer nanny over summer and then start nursery in Sep. DH thinks this is totally out of order and that it's really unfair to childminder to be without money for the summer. What do you think? If we do it his way, I'll give notice mid-summer and finish paying end of Aug but won't actually use childminder for summer hols. This will cost me about £350.
We've been with the childminder over a year, it is her choice to be paid this way and we only have to contractually give one months notice, so I'm not sure, do you think I'm being unreasonable?