Management

Increase Your Daycare Enrollment – Daycare Marketing Tips

September 12, 2011

Tweet Tweet When first starting a daycare business, it may be difficult to fill all of the empty slots and increase your enrollment. There are many marketing options to help promote your daycare center such as flyers, websites, and classified ads. We asked the OwnADaycare Facebook fans to share their best tips to getting more [...]

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How to Handle Daycare Provider Burnout

August 23, 2011

Tweet Tweet Childcare provider burnout is when an educator loses passion and energy for working with small children in daycare centers, but remains in his or her position in the field.  It is common in the daycare industry yet there are simple ways to combat daycare burnout. We asked the OwnADaycare Facebook Fans: What are [...]

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Daycare Owner Business Attire: What do you Wear?

August 16, 2011

Tweet Tweet Daycare owners: What is your work attire? Does the way you dress affect how parents or potential clients view you given the type of work you do? We asked daycare owners on the Ownadaycare’s FaceBook page what they wear on a day to day basis while they work. The answers ranged from casual [...]

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Parent-Teacher Daycare Communication: After-Hours Contact

August 11, 2011

Tweet Tweet Communication between parents and home daycare staff it is so important. There are a variety of ways parents can reach you – by phone, email, or text message. We asked our OwnADaycare Facebook contributors about how they handle communication after hours and their after-hour policies. Policies varied. These ideas may help you when [...]

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Parent-Teacher Communication Ideas for Daycare

July 19, 2011

Tweet Tweet Communication is the primary ingredient in building an effective parent-teacher relationship. There are many ways to communicate with parents to let them know what happened throughout the day, from email to daily daycare reports to Facebook notices. We asked fans on our Facebook page: How do you communicate with parents the activities the [...]

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Daycare Employee Handbook Policies

June 21, 2011

Tweet Tweet If you employ staff at your daycare it is so important to have an employee handbook that details your expectations while they work for you. We asked our OwnADaycare Facebook contributors about the most important policies in their employee handbook. This will help you create fair employee policies and to remember polices to [...]

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How to Handle Overprotective or Bossy Parents in the Daycare Setting

June 10, 2011

Tweet Tweet Overall, child care providers love the parents and children they serve and care for. Parent-client relationships can be wonderful and at times they can be stressful. Sometimes child care providers must deal with a parent that they consider overprotective or bossy. We interviewed Renowned parenting expert Lonna Corder to find out the best [...]

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How to Handle Bossy or Overprotective Parents in the Daycare Setting

June 1, 2011

Tweet Tweet Overall, child care providers love the parents and children they serve and care for. Parent-client relationships can be wonderful and at times they can be stressful. Sometimes child care providers must deal with a parent that they consider overprotective or bossy. We interviewed Susan Cooper, M.Ed., early child development expert and member of [...]

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How to Write a Daycare Job Advertisement

May 13, 2011

Tweet Tweet Finding the right employee for your daycare business is an important task. The first step to finding a great employee is to write an effective daycare job advertisement.  The key is to be as specific as possible to avoid wasting both your time and the applicant’s time. Here are some key components of [...]

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Guest Blogger Louise Roberts on A Good Provider: We are a Funky Breed

May 11, 2011

Tweet Tweet Over the years I have been a Day Home Provider I have met and are currently friends with many other providers. Of course the good ones, the ones who are genuine, loving and really care about the health, well-being and development of each individual child are the ones I associate with. We are [...]

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