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The Five Must Haves To Start A Day Care

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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.

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More Than A Day Care

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“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

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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 →

The Grown Up Work Of Running A Day Care

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For anyone who enjoys working with children, starting a day care can be a fulfilling and rewarding career. Not only will you be doing what you love to do which is caring for the very young, you are making a good living at it. The size of the day care you start can be as small as hosting a half dozen kids in your home to running a big institution with dozens of kids. The size of the day care is something you have to decide based on what your objectives are as a small business owner will.

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