how much do you gift your in-home daycare provider?

[Anonymous]

200 gift card for the owner at 100 gift cards for both assistants. This is our third Christmas with her and she hasn't raised our 250 week/rate.

[Anonymous]

We pay $150/week for part-time and gave her $150 cash as a bonus.

[Anonymous]

I am going to give her a bag of cookies, a card made by my oldest and $100 GC. I usually get an Amex or Visa GC. I just don't like giving cash. I will probably get her a little something like a scarf too.

[Anonymous]

One week pay in cash.

[Anonymous]

Wow, could you guys paying $200-something a week tell me where the heck you found in-home daycares for that rate? The absolute cheapest I found in our area was $300 a week, most closer to $350!!!

Which made me think a half-weeks pay is about all we can do.

[Anonymous]

NP I'm already paying for a two weeks of vacation per year. Plus I'm a single Mom so daycare at $1300 per month is already breaking my bank. I "only" gave $40. Gifts for my family topped out at $25 so that's more than gifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP I'm already paying for a two weeks of vacation per year. Plus I'm a single Mom so daycare at $1300 per month is already breaking my bank. I "only" gave $40. Gifts for my family topped out at $25 so that's more than gifts.

^Should say $40 per worker (3 people total)

[Anonymous]

We pay a ridiculously low amount, as we are in an on-base home, and the rates are set by DOD. Because of that, we will probably do at least two weeks. We don't have to pay the week of Christmas (Army covers two weeks of vacation) so we'll pay for that week anyway and add one more. I think we'll just do cash.

I don't consider this a gift. It's a bonus for a job well done (and she really is great...I don't think we'd be as happy almost anywhere else). We don't spend near this much on gifts for family.

[Anonymous]

I gave our provider $100 (we pay $200wk for part time care) and she refused to accept it. Made me take the check back. And then turned around and gave us a not-inexpensive gift for our DS. Not that I'm really complaining, but it was funny. I would like to show our appreciation and now I have to think of another way to do it.

[Anonymous]

Since it was a paid week off (in-home daycare followed MCPS calendar, so I guess it was more like a week and a half or so), I gave $50 GC to each of the three providers in addition to a crafty gift my son and I had made together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, could you guys paying $200-something a week tell me where the heck you found in-home daycares for that rate? The absolute cheapest I found in our area was $300 a week, most closer to $350!!!

Which made me think a half-weeks pay is about all we can do.

Annandale Va

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here, I read that other thread but still don't have a good idea what the "going rate" is. Some folks are doing a whole week's pay in cash, others are giving candles.

I'm thinking of a $100 gift card for the home day care owner and $25 for her assistant. Hope that's not crazy cheap. We pay $275/week.

(She also gets a paid week off at Christmas.)

Does she get any other paid time off?

I'm from the "week's pay" school myself, and my nanny did get some paid leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, could you guys paying $200-something a week tell me where the heck you found in-home daycares for that rate? The absolute cheapest I found in our area was $300 a week, most closer to $350!!!

Which made me think a half-weeks pay is about all we can do.

Arlington

[Anonymous]

Must "gift" become a verb? Use the verb "give" instead.

[Anonymous]

There was a thread that said $25 for assistants $50 for main.