Category Archives: Starting A Daycare Tips

Your Day Care Business Plan

May 9, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipsbusiness, funding, help, plan, ventureadmin

Looking To Start A Lucrative Daycare Business?

Discover The Best Tips On Starting A Successful Daycare!

Many times people who want to start a new business chaff at the idea of having to write a business plan. The idea of going through a tedious process of documenting the business aspects of something that is really your dream that you want to make come true seems tedious and unnecessary. After all, you know at a gut level what you want to do so the thought that you have to get that all on paper at a fairly detailed level seems to be a nuisance.

This may have been your reaction when you begin to plan your new day care that you want to open and perhaps your banker or someone at the small business association told you that creating a business plan was crucial to getting your day care out of the dream phase and into the realm of reality. But there are some very good reasons why you should give the process of creating a business plan for your future day care some serious effort and some patient tender loving care because it really is a major key to your future success in running your day care.

The timing that most people who want to start a day care business encounter the need for a business plan is in seeking funding. It takes Continue reading Your Day Care Business Plan →

More Than A Day Care

March 27, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipscare, children, day, success, teamworkadmin

“Walk a mile in my shoes” was a popular song long ago which advocated that to understand someone else’s point of view, try to see the world through their eyes. In running a day care, sometimes it helps if we stop and try to understand how your customers view you and view the experience they are having using your service. And, of course, the “customers ” of your day care are the children who are in your care and the parents who entrust those little ones to you for several hours each day.

To us a day care is a place to work and a business. At the day care worker level, there is a joy in working with children but it’s a job similar to teaching or other children related occupations. But to that child who Continue reading More Than A Day Care →

Discipline At Day Care

March 18, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipscare, children, discipline, parents, rulesadmin

When you first though of starting your own day care, the images of being with children, loving them, and having fun with them is one of the big attractions to making that kind of day care become a reality. But it doesn’t take long to realize that in any social setting and especially one where children are involved, there must be a system of discipline.

The tricky part of putting into place and then enforcing discipline in a day care setting is that you are put on the spot when you must discipline a child or several children. After all, these are the children in your care Continue reading Discipline At Day Care →

Because You Can Do It Better

March 10, 2020Starting A Daycare Tipsbusiness, care, facility, motivation, valuesadmin

There are a lot of reasons that people decide to start their own day care. For some its strictly a business venture. For others the motivation could be a background or academic training in child care and finding a way to use that expertise outside of public schools and pediatrics. But for many and perhaps for you, the motivation is quite simply that you know you can do it better than people who run day care centers that you have used.

One of the most heart wrenching things a parent has to do is to drop off your child at a day care center and to leave them in hysterics because Continue reading Because You Can Do It Better →