Your Day Care Business Plan

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

Your Computer as Day Care Worker

While running a day care is all about caring for children, when you get a population of several dozen or more children, there is a lot of detail that must be kept track of. Some of the areas of documentation that

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 th

Who, What, When, Where and How to Start a Day Care Center

There is a moment when in your mind you cross the line between dreaming of running your own day care center and actually seeing it as a reality in your future. When you make that transitio

When Separation Anxiety Strikes Your Day Care

Its easy to get caught up in the business side of running your own day care. But its a good idea to remember the core component of any day care and that is a population of very young children. You do

Things to Think About When Starting a Home Based Day Care

Side by side, the work and expense of starting a day care at home compared to setting up a dedicated facility are dramatically different. Owning and running a full scale retail day care is

The Grown Up Work of Running a Day Care

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

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

The Basics of Starting a Day Care

Starting your own day care business is a good way of scratching several “itches” all at once. It can fulfill your need not just for a job but for a career that is really a calling in a lot of ways. All of us w

Starting Your Day Care at Home

When you think of a day care facility, the image of a dedicated building with a hundred or more children frolicking on the playground comes to mind. But while those kinds of facilities are fine, every day care doesn