I’ve been running my home daycare for 5 years now and have never raised my daily rate($30 - day) after talking to other daycare providers in the area, they are all charging 5 dollars more an hour than me AND they don’t include lunch (which I do). I feel like I need to make a change but I’m feeling really nervous about raising my rate by 5 dollars a day (works out to $100 extra a month). I was thinking about just raising it $2.50 a day and then any new families that start in the future I can charge $35. What do you think? Would you be mad as a parent if this happened? All families I have now have been with me for 1.5-2 years.