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[quote=Anonymous]One of my nanny families were thinking of going away for a long weekend and had discussed a rate for me to watch the kids all weekend.  It would have been 72 hours, with young twins who wake about once per night, so it was a good chunk of cash.  They hadn't officially booked me ye, but I was excited to bring in that much, especially a few weeks before my own vacation.  They found out that the dad has an extra day off he can use, which would make their trip 96 hours, and they said that they were thinking they'd just bring the kids along in that case, since the cost of a larger hotel room and plane tickets for the kids was outweighed by the increase in child care costs.

I would be willin to do the extra day at a reduced rate in order not to lose the entire job, but it is a bad idea to set this precedent?  I was thinking of reducing my hourly rate to the point where the extra day was only a few hundred dollars more than a 3-day would have been.  But will this make them balk at my normal rate next time they want to do a 2- or 3-day trip?  Any thoughts?[/quote]

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