Hi! New here and new to running a daycare business. My first official day will be this coming Monday.
Today I babysat a little girl for about 6 hours who I found through care.com. the mother posted she was willing to pay 8.50/hour and care would have been at her house with her providing food. She agreed to bring her to my home instead since we live less than 5 minutes apart. Since she was coming here I would obviously provide her meals. She never asked what I would be charging. I think she should have asked and I assumed it would be what she had posted online.
She came for an interview and I gave her a contract and all paperwork needing to be filled out as I would have any other full timer fill out. She did not bring it with her today. The agreement was supposed to be to care for her from 9-4. She text me the day after our interview saying that she would be bringing her at 10:30 bc she had dance class for the next few weeks.
So she ended up bringing her in a few minutes late and signed in at 10:40 when she was here before that. She then text me at 4:01 saying she'd be here at 4:11 (10 minutes later). She arrived to pick her up close to 4:30. I charged her 51.00 total. Was this too much? She asked if I would be charging per hour and if I did block discounts. I am unsure of what block discounting is and she said she'd bring in a flyer. What do you all think of this situation? Thanks!
Today I babysat a little girl for about 6 hours who I found through care.com. the mother posted she was willing to pay 8.50/hour and care would have been at her house with her providing food. She agreed to bring her to my home instead since we live less than 5 minutes apart. Since she was coming here I would obviously provide her meals. She never asked what I would be charging. I think she should have asked and I assumed it would be what she had posted online.
She came for an interview and I gave her a contract and all paperwork needing to be filled out as I would have any other full timer fill out. She did not bring it with her today. The agreement was supposed to be to care for her from 9-4. She text me the day after our interview saying that she would be bringing her at 10:30 bc she had dance class for the next few weeks.
So she ended up bringing her in a few minutes late and signed in at 10:40 when she was here before that. She then text me at 4:01 saying she'd be here at 4:11 (10 minutes later). She arrived to pick her up close to 4:30. I charged her 51.00 total. Was this too much? She asked if I would be charging per hour and if I did block discounts. I am unsure of what block discounting is and she said she'd bring in a flyer. What do you all think of this situation? Thanks!
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