If your child is in a day care center, you have to be prepared for the time he or she comes down with pinkeye (possibly picked up from the center), and is prohibited from coming back to the center until he or she has been on antibiotics for 24 hours. (Make sure you can check the credentials of the backup caregiver well before you need her help.) If you use a family day care, ask what the contingency plan is when one becomes necessary.Įven if the childcare provider tells you that there is a plan in place for these contingencies, have your own plan as well. If your nanny comes from an agency, see if the agency will send a substitute. When you first interview potential caregivers, find out what they will do if they are unable to care for your child due to their own illness or personal emergency.
One good way to ensure a backup plan is to ask the childcare provider to have one for you, especially if your child is in a family day care or you have a nanny. What do you do? No matter what your childcare situation, you want to have a backup plan for childcare in place for the inevitable day when something goes wrong. What if your child attends a family day care and the day care provider's own children develop a contagious illness? What if the day care provider becomes sick? Suppose your child is in a day care center, but comes down with a stomach flu the same day that you have a presentation you cannot miss at work? Sometimes, a nanny or sitter simply fails to show up.
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