Category Archives: Starting A Daycare FAQs

Why Start Your Own Day Care Center

Have you ever heard of someone doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons? Most of us can think of someone who has been guilty of that. There are a lot of questions you ask yourself when you start the planning for setting up your own day care center. You have to spend time on issues like location, financing, market share and licensing. But there is one fundamental question maybe more important than all of those things. And that is the question, why are you doing this?

The objective you are looking to achieve in doing all the hard work of starting a day care center will be a big factor in when or if you consider your hard work to be a success. In any big operation whether it is starting a business, going on a diet, invading a country or learning a skill, you have to know in advance what your definition of “winning” is so you know when you have arrived and when you can call yourself a success. And what winning looks like to you when you build your own day care Continue reading Why Start Your Own Day Care Center

The Five Must Haves To Start A Day Care

Whether its going on vacation or building a new business, before you start on any of life’s adventures, you have to know what you must have. And starting your own day care is a great adventure because there is risk, there is excitement and there is opportunity for great success and victory. So the very first thing you will set about learning are the “must haves” of starting your own day care center. Once you have that list underway, you can fill in the blanks as you go and before long your day care business will be becoming a reality before your eyes.

The list of “must haves” to get your day care started may become quite long and complicated. But to get the process started, below are five “must haves” that will make your top ten categories list to start looking into right away.

1. You must have a space.

The physical location of your future day care is going to have a big impact not only on how successful you will be but on how many children Continue reading The Five Must Haves To Start A Day Care

Daily Life In Your Day Care

How do you view the daily schedule that you maintain in your day care? How the time is used while you are the primary caregiver for those kids will say a lot about whether you see day care as essentially professional babysitting or as a time when the kids in your charge can grow and mature together. Now, we know that day care is not school. So you are not expected to run a curriculum and show substantial intellectual improvement in the children you care for. For the parents who leave their children with you there are only a few requirements and those areĀ…

* Is my child safe with you?
* Do you know how to handle emergencies if my child has one?
* Is my child getting socialization skills?
* Is my child having happy and having fun at your day care?

For working parents, there is some guilt that comes with putting their children in day care. So if their children are having a positive experience Continue reading Daily Life In Your Day Care