So since opening I stuck with mostly preschool age (2-5). It was working great but then a family of mine got pregnant so I changed my age range to include infants.
I added an additional infant (3 months) about a month ago and will get dcf's infant in the Fall.
I'm now re-thinking my addition of infants and debating whether or not to go back to strictly 2+. The baby I added a month ago is AWESOME and his family is great and so is my dcf that just gave birth but I just feel more stressed with the babies here.
I'm always worried something could happen to the baby and it's just more tough getting things (crafts, circle) done with the older ones when I'm constantly watching the baby. The older ones are able to do so much on their own and it was so nice when all my group was like that but now I feel like I'm taking time away from the older kids to care for the baby and when I get a 2nd infant that will just be doubled.
The other downside is my ratio. I'm licensed so as I add infants my ratio, of course, is significantly reduced. So I'm losing income with the addition of the infants.
Have any of you agreed to add infants (or preschoolers if you were infants-only)and then decided it wasn't going to work for your situation? How did you tell the families? How did they take it and did they understand?
I haven't made any decisions 100% I'm just seeing if any of you have been in similar situations.
I added an additional infant (3 months) about a month ago and will get dcf's infant in the Fall.
I'm now re-thinking my addition of infants and debating whether or not to go back to strictly 2+. The baby I added a month ago is AWESOME and his family is great and so is my dcf that just gave birth but I just feel more stressed with the babies here.
I'm always worried something could happen to the baby and it's just more tough getting things (crafts, circle) done with the older ones when I'm constantly watching the baby. The older ones are able to do so much on their own and it was so nice when all my group was like that but now I feel like I'm taking time away from the older kids to care for the baby and when I get a 2nd infant that will just be doubled.
The other downside is my ratio. I'm licensed so as I add infants my ratio, of course, is significantly reduced. So I'm losing income with the addition of the infants.
Have any of you agreed to add infants (or preschoolers if you were infants-only)and then decided it wasn't going to work for your situation? How did you tell the families? How did they take it and did they understand?
I haven't made any decisions 100% I'm just seeing if any of you have been in similar situations.
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