Starting a Day Care

How to Raise Your Daycare Rates

May 16, 2013

Tweet Tweet At some point, every daycare owner has to adjust his or her rates.  It’s just the way it is with the rising cost of living. If you need tips for how to raise your daycare rates and give proper notice, keep reading: A daycare owner asks: “Hello, I recently increased my prices for [...]

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Family Matters: Help Your Kids Adjust to Your In-Home Family Daycare

May 9, 2013

Tweet Tweet If you have toddlers and school age children at home who you care for while you’re running an-in home daycare, your kids might have some issues adjusting because they don’t always have your full time and attention like they used to. A daycare owner asks: “I’ve been doing daycare for a year and my son [...]

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Child Care Conferences June 2013

May 8, 2013

Tweet Tweet As the owner of a daycare business it is important to network and continually educate yourself.  Early childhood education conferences, seminars, and organizations are a great way to networking with other child care professionals around the world and exchange thoughts. Child care conferences enhance your knowledge of child development and developmentally appropriate practices.  They also [...]

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What Baby Food Jars Don’t Tell You about Introducing Foods Part 2

May 1, 2013

Tweet Tweet Tip: This is EXCELLENT info to pass along to your daycare parents. You may want to print this out and/or include it in your next daycare newsletter.  I also suggest checking out Diane Bahr’s brilliant book Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development (Sensory [...]

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What Baby Food Jars Don’t Tell You about Introducing Foods

April 30, 2013

Tweet Tweet Tip: This is EXCELLENT info to pass along to your daycare parents. You may want to print this out and/or include it in your next daycare newsletter.  I also suggest checking out Diane Bahr’s brilliant book Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That! Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development (Sensory World/Future [...]

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Child Care Conferences for May 2013

April 17, 2013

Tweet Tweet As the owner of a daycare business it is important to network and continually educate yourself.  Early childhood education conferences, seminars, and organizations are a great way to networking with other child care professionals around the world and exchange thoughts. Child care conferences enhance your knowledge of child development and developmentally appropriate practices.  They also [...]

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Daycare Tips: Accreditation for Daycare Centers

April 16, 2013

Tweet Tweet Are you interested in getting your daycare accredited? If you have ever wondered what accreditation can do for your daycare or want to learn more about the accreditation process, this is for you. “A daycare owner asks: Has anyone done the accreditation for NAFCC? Was it worth it? How many changes did you [...]

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For Child Care Providers: How to Support Breastfeeding Mothers

April 1, 2013

Tweet Tweet Providing child care for infants is a special and important task. It is important that early childhood educators and child care services are supportive of breastfeeding mothers and their babies and that they make it easy for mothers and babies to continue breastfeeding. To help you provide the support that breastfeeding moms need [...]

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Infant Care Tips for Child Care Providers Part 2

March 26, 2013

Tweet Tweet Providing child care for infants is a task not to be taken lightly. Besides general care of the infant, you are also there to support the infant’s social and emotional health. To get expert tips for infant daycare, Own A Daycare looked to Diane Bahr, Speech-Language Pathologist, Feeding Specialist, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, [...]

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Infant Care Tips for Child Care Providers Part 1

March 25, 2013

Tweet Tweet Providing child care for infants is a task not to be taken lightly. Besides general care of the infant, you are also there to support the infant’s social and emotional health. To get expert tips for infant daycare, Own A Daycare looked to Diane Bahr, Speech-Language Pathologist, Feeding Specialist, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, [...]

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