Childcare Fee’s Include...
What you pay to the childcare will guarantee the highest quality childcare, nutritious meals & snacks, and a safe, nurturing environment for your child. Your childcare fees provide my income including the taxes and CPP, which I pay in. Your fees pay for food, paper products, soap, and cleaning supplies, toys, play equipment, baby equipment, art & craft supplies, water, gas, electric, sewer and more, playpen, special chairs & furniture, strollers, lots of repairs and wear and tear, entertainment expenses, paperwork & supplies, parties and special events, and all of the other things that your child will use.
Like other self-employed workers, Family Childcare providers do not receive the benefits many employees take for granted. These include health/dental insurance, life insurance, retirement/pension, paid personal days, personal vacation time, workers comp, flexible time off and unemployment insurance. These benefits often amount to as much as 35% of a person’s wages.
Family child care is a blessing to your family in that your children will have much more individual attention and opportunities for learning, and much less illness than center care.
Unlike other forms of self-employment, Family childcare is very restrictive in that there is no room for growth. The province dictates the size of my business. I cannot take time off for appointments or obligations without careful planning and covering of my responsibilities. To protect my rights and income, you will find that a guaranteed wage is part of my contract. Most people have a 40 hour work week. Mine is 50 hours and up and that does not include my preparation, bookkeeping, paperwork, shopping or cleaning time.
I hope this gives you a better understanding about all the ways in which your childcare fees are applied.
EXPECTATIONS
What I expect of the Families in Care
My day home is not only my business, this is my family home. I ask that parents and children be respectful of that and follow our rules. My rules are very simple for adults and children alike. Respect my home, my family and each other.
Please maintain your scheduled hours, don't assume that you can bring them early just because I happen to be home, please ask the day before.
Pick children up on time, I schedule the rest of my family life around my day home hours. If you're running late in the morning, please call so that I know what is going on, and can plan around you. If you fail to call, and there are no other children in care, or if a field trip was planned, we might not be here when you arrive.
If you're needing to change your hours of care, please let me know as soon as possible, as it may or may not work with my schedule, in that event you may need to find alternate care.
Please knock in case toddlers are sleeping, and be patient before knocking again, I may be in the middle of a diaper change. Please respect that mid afternoon is nap/quiet time for the children, and it disrupts their rest.. Again please knock and wait for me to answer.
You can call / text me anytime during the day to see how your little one is doing or address any concerns you have, but you may not always get an answer immediately if we are outside, or I'm attending to the kids. I will check the answering machine as soon as I can and return your call. Please note that during quiet times my ringer may be turned off on my phone due to napping children, however I will still check my messages in case of emergency.
What you pay to the childcare will guarantee the highest quality childcare, nutritious meals & snacks, and a safe, nurturing environment for your child. Your childcare fees provide my income including the taxes and CPP, which I pay in. Your fees pay for food, paper products, soap, and cleaning supplies, toys, play equipment, baby equipment, art & craft supplies, water, gas, electric, sewer and more, playpen, special chairs & furniture, strollers, lots of repairs and wear and tear, entertainment expenses, paperwork & supplies, parties and special events, and all of the other things that your child will use.
Like other self-employed workers, Family Childcare providers do not receive the benefits many employees take for granted. These include health/dental insurance, life insurance, retirement/pension, paid personal days, personal vacation time, workers comp, flexible time off and unemployment insurance. These benefits often amount to as much as 35% of a person’s wages.
Family child care is a blessing to your family in that your children will have much more individual attention and opportunities for learning, and much less illness than center care.
Unlike other forms of self-employment, Family childcare is very restrictive in that there is no room for growth. The province dictates the size of my business. I cannot take time off for appointments or obligations without careful planning and covering of my responsibilities. To protect my rights and income, you will find that a guaranteed wage is part of my contract. Most people have a 40 hour work week. Mine is 50 hours and up and that does not include my preparation, bookkeeping, paperwork, shopping or cleaning time.
I hope this gives you a better understanding about all the ways in which your childcare fees are applied.
EXPECTATIONS
What I expect of the Families in Care
My day home is not only my business, this is my family home. I ask that parents and children be respectful of that and follow our rules. My rules are very simple for adults and children alike. Respect my home, my family and each other.
Please maintain your scheduled hours, don't assume that you can bring them early just because I happen to be home, please ask the day before.
Pick children up on time, I schedule the rest of my family life around my day home hours. If you're running late in the morning, please call so that I know what is going on, and can plan around you. If you fail to call, and there are no other children in care, or if a field trip was planned, we might not be here when you arrive.
If you're needing to change your hours of care, please let me know as soon as possible, as it may or may not work with my schedule, in that event you may need to find alternate care.
Please knock in case toddlers are sleeping, and be patient before knocking again, I may be in the middle of a diaper change. Please respect that mid afternoon is nap/quiet time for the children, and it disrupts their rest.. Again please knock and wait for me to answer.
You can call / text me anytime during the day to see how your little one is doing or address any concerns you have, but you may not always get an answer immediately if we are outside, or I'm attending to the kids. I will check the answering machine as soon as I can and return your call. Please note that during quiet times my ringer may be turned off on my phone due to napping children, however I will still check my messages in case of emergency.