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I have read through some of the other threads on late fees. I still not sure how to word a letter to this dcf.
I do contract hours and this dcf pick up before anyone else. So when I pulled the months sign in / out sheet, I notice a min or 2 late once a week. Basically, I was not watching the clock and dcm must of walked in as the clock changed time. Ok, I let it go. But it keep happening, so I started highlighting after the fact and now before she arrives. A few times she has texted saying she was going to be 5 minutes late. She text early enough, about 45 minutes before p/u time. (Which is not approved by me)
Anyways, she approached me about adjust here contract hours and I comment about her being late. We changed there hours, dropping off later and picking up later. She was late again on the first day of the new hours but not again until yesterday, when she texted just after 4 saying she would be late by 5 minutes. I did not hear the text, (having trouble with my phone notification).
I am torn on what to do. In one of Tom blogs about enforcing rules, it says do what makes you happy. So far I have not enforced anything for 1-2 minutes. But now with the later p/u time (which is still earlier than my other family) and dcm texting that she is going to be late (more than 1-2 minutes) it is starting to bother me and with winter coming, it could increase dcm tardiness.
Any recommendations on what to do or how to approach this?
I do contract hours and this dcf pick up before anyone else. So when I pulled the months sign in / out sheet, I notice a min or 2 late once a week. Basically, I was not watching the clock and dcm must of walked in as the clock changed time. Ok, I let it go. But it keep happening, so I started highlighting after the fact and now before she arrives. A few times she has texted saying she was going to be 5 minutes late. She text early enough, about 45 minutes before p/u time. (Which is not approved by me)
Anyways, she approached me about adjust here contract hours and I comment about her being late. We changed there hours, dropping off later and picking up later. She was late again on the first day of the new hours but not again until yesterday, when she texted just after 4 saying she would be late by 5 minutes. I did not hear the text, (having trouble with my phone notification).
I am torn on what to do. In one of Tom blogs about enforcing rules, it says do what makes you happy. So far I have not enforced anything for 1-2 minutes. But now with the later p/u time (which is still earlier than my other family) and dcm texting that she is going to be late (more than 1-2 minutes) it is starting to bother me and with winter coming, it could increase dcm tardiness.
Any recommendations on what to do or how to approach this?
and get busy doing other things than watching the clock. I do have one family that will hand me cash for being late when I didn't even realize they were late - they are so well trained 
...maybe they shouldn't be late so I often that they are so good at it 
and they are still inside my earliest and latest times I allow. (Allowed 7-6 - their hours 8:3-5)
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