I'm a HOME daycare with a license for 12. I have 2 part time employees which I wouldn't need but going on maternity leave any day now, literally! With our child I need to have a second person here all day so I'm keeping them both on their same work schedules after my maternity leave 8-12 weeks later. Then I want to fill my other spots.
I have 7 enrolled now and mine makes 8 putting us needing 2 people at all times because of ages and ratios. I'm holding one spot for a pregnant mom enrolling in August even though she is due right after me she has summers off so it's nice not having two newborns in the house! That leaves me with 3/12 spots to fill.
Now with all the ages come summertime and 3 open spots I can enroll all the spots for ages 12-35 months (preference not to take older than 2 years old if I don't have too so they grow up here). Financially I would be doing extremely well but if one of my employees called in I would be screwed so come summertime before I go way over ratio (since my husband can watch our child to keep us within ratio if it happens after baby is born) but if I am way over and someone calls in I am screwed. So to solve this stressful issue I am thinking about hiring a third employee so part of the day it would be two employees working and not me just to give me the flex room for having a back up to call if someone needs time off or calls in.
Does any other larger home-daycare have a situation like this? Sorry I went into all details but looking for advice. As long as I can fill my spots with the right families I would love to have a 3 helper.
I think come summer I will have someone from 8-1 and my afternoon come 12-5:30 so they can overlap for the lunch and start of nap to get that transition time over in a timely manner. If I had a third person I would probably have them come in 9-12 because mornings are the busiest. What do you guys think for advice for scheduling employees or even financial advice? THANKS
I have 7 enrolled now and mine makes 8 putting us needing 2 people at all times because of ages and ratios. I'm holding one spot for a pregnant mom enrolling in August even though she is due right after me she has summers off so it's nice not having two newborns in the house! That leaves me with 3/12 spots to fill.
Now with all the ages come summertime and 3 open spots I can enroll all the spots for ages 12-35 months (preference not to take older than 2 years old if I don't have too so they grow up here). Financially I would be doing extremely well but if one of my employees called in I would be screwed so come summertime before I go way over ratio (since my husband can watch our child to keep us within ratio if it happens after baby is born) but if I am way over and someone calls in I am screwed. So to solve this stressful issue I am thinking about hiring a third employee so part of the day it would be two employees working and not me just to give me the flex room for having a back up to call if someone needs time off or calls in.
Does any other larger home-daycare have a situation like this? Sorry I went into all details but looking for advice. As long as I can fill my spots with the right families I would love to have a 3 helper.
I think come summer I will have someone from 8-1 and my afternoon come 12-5:30 so they can overlap for the lunch and start of nap to get that transition time over in a timely manner. If I had a third person I would probably have them come in 9-12 because mornings are the busiest. What do you guys think for advice for scheduling employees or even financial advice? THANKS
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