The Grown Up Work of Running a Day Care

   Anyone starting a daycare must enjoy working with children, in order to make their business a rewarding and fulfilling career! Not only will you be doing something you love to do, you will also be earning a good living at it! The size of the daycare you start can be as small or as large as you would like it to be(check local daycare guidelines). You also need to decide on the age of the children that you will care for! These are things that you, as a “small business owner”, need to decide on before opening your doors.

   Notice the phrase “small business owner.” Daycare IS a business. Make sure you don't think of your new business as a glorified babysitting service, or for that matter don't allow your parents to think that either! If you do, you will run into problems. If you think of it as your own daycare business, you will succeed right from the beginning, you will make all the right decisions, and get the right information.

Starting your own daycare business depends upon planning, and the knowledge of how a successful daycare business is to be run. You will need to know who your customers are, how you will reach them, and how you will keep them. You will need to know how to respond to the problems that will arise, and how to deal with them.

   With daycare, you are offering a service, not a product. The one huge difference that dominates how you set up your business from a non-daycare business, and that is you are in charge of people's precious children. They need to be kept safe, fed and entertained throughout the day. And, you need to be able to meet or exceed the parents' expectations, and that can be hard to do.

   This means that you need to invest in products that are childproof and durable, and are up to safety standards. Insurance is something else that you will need to check into. You will want to know how much and what kind of insurance you will need. Since you will be looking after children, you will need a police check, first aid and CPR. A lot of situations may arise when looking after kids...falls, scrapes, nausea and all the little things that pop up, and you will need to know how to handle them calmly and professionally.

   There are a lot of things that you will need to do legally before you can open your doors. Check with your local governments to find out your province's or state's laws regarding daycare. They control every thing from the age of the children to the number of children you are allowed to have. Where I'm from, my own children didn't count in my daycare numbers. By going through this process, you will have peace of mind that you have done everything possible, and can legally open your doors for business. The parents, who come to you to take care of their children, want to know that you are trained, that your facilities live up to established standards, and that you are accountable to the state or province, and have met the necessary medical requirements to be able to operate this kind of facility.

   The license you get when you open your daycare will mean a lot to the parents. And those parents are your customers. You owe it to yourself to pass all of the preparation requirements with flying colours, so you can open your doors with pride. Even though your daycare is oriented toward children, it is adult work to prepare to open and then operate your business. Learn all you can before you open your daycare by checking out this site.

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Good luck in your future endeavour!!

Insider Tips From the Day Care Gurus

In any profession there are those insiders who know how that profession really works.  And no matter how many courses you take or kits you buy, that knowledge of what to expect when you are actually in the business is hard won. So in starting a day care, if you could pick the brains of the real gurus of the business to learn where to put your efforts and how to organize your business for success, that would eliminate a lot of trial and error and reduce the incidences of failure that can be costly as you are trying to get some momentum under your day care business.
One tip that any day care guru will tell you is that the success of your day care is as much about your day care workers as it is about the facility or about you.  Even if you do not have the perfect facility, if you have outstanding day care workers, you will offer a quality experience to the children in your care.  The two keys to great day care workers is taking care in recruitment and treating your good workers like gold so you hold on to them for a long time.
On top of great workers, maintaining a  professional working environment in your day care is of top importance.  Maybe no other type of service next to the restaurant industry is so strictly regulated and carefully monitored as day care centers.  With that in mind, run your day care every day in such a way that inspectors could walk in and find your day care in top notch shape even if the inspection is without notice.  If you simply maintain a lifestyle of keeping your day care at or above expectations, you will never get written up when you are audited and that good record of quality will be noticed by your customers.
Next to a sanitary environment and a high priority on maintaining your nutritional standards, emergency preparedness has to have a high priority in your day care.  Emergency preparedness is not something that you must face every day.  But being ready in the case of any likely emergency and having your staff well trained in the event of a sudden crisis will make all the difference between whether you can handle an emergency efficiently or see it hurt your day care or even shut it down.
The types of emergencies to be ready for are primarily focused on the facility and on the children.  At the facility level, your ability to respond to fire, dire storms or other natural disasters is something you have to keep at a high level of awareness even if you don’t see an emergency of this magnitude very often.  But making sure your fire extinguishers are in good repair and that everybody on the staff knows how to use them will assure that even the smallest problem can be handled quickly.  Also be aware of the major weather related emergencies and not only have your day care workers well briefed and trained on how to respond but teach the children and their parents how to handle a weather related problem.  That level of preparedness will keep panic situations from ever occurring because when problems come about, you are ready.
Day care gurus will also tell us that making day care a family event with social times, parties and open houses is a big key not only to keeping the children you have but in recruiting new families.   Get the staff in on the act in planning ways to celebrate family right  there in your day care facility.  The more you make the parents feel they are part of what you are doing, the longer they will stay and the stronger your day care business will be for the long haul.
 P.S.  Your still not sure?  There's a lot of information you need to know when opening up your own daycare!  With this guide you will be taken through every step that you will need to know and... it will save you not only time but money as well.  With this comprehensive guide you will be up and running before you know it!!     A Complete Guide to Starting Your Own Daycare

P.P.S.  AND IT'S A 100% RISK FREE TO BOOT!!!

Daycare: Is It A Business For You?

How do you know if doing daycare is for you? The answer to these questions will give you a good idea whether or not to consider starting a home based daycare business.

 Do I enjoy spending time with children? If you don't like spending time with children, playing with and teaching them, then this is not a business for you. I personally feel very strongly about this. Daycare is not something that you should do just to make money. You should want to spend time with the children and have fun doing it! Daycare is a stressful business, which is made worse if you don't want to be doing it!

Do you have the time? This may sound like a ridiculous question, but it is a valid one. Providing daycare means working long hours and possibly different shifts, depending on what you have decided to offer the parents. Because they are travelling to your home, then to work, that is added time for both you and them. If they start work at 7am and have to travel a ½ hr to your home that means you will have them that extra time at both ends. My daycare hours were from 5:30 am till 6pm. Monday-Friday. These were the hours that I chose to work. That way, I was able to offer my services to more people!

Do I have the room? You need to consider where the children will play, eat and sleep. In my own daycare, I used the basement for free play and nap time. That way, I was free to do what I needed to do while they were sleeping, and they also had a nice quiet place to sleep. I used the kitchen table for lunchtime and snack time, and to do crafts., My living room was used for circle time and story time! I had a fair-sized fully fenced backyard with a locked gate for the children to play safely in!

 P.S.  Your still not sure?  There's a lot of information you need to know when opening up your own daycare!  With this guide you will be taken through every step that you will need to know and... it will save you not only time but money as well.  With this comprehensive guide you will be up and running before you know it!!   A Complete Guide to Starting A Daycare Business


P.P.S. AND IT'S 100% RISK FREE TO BOOT!!!