Starting a Day Care

How to Create a Daycare Handbook for Parents Part I

October 13, 2010

Tweet Tweet A daycare handbook is incredibly important because it details your policies and procedures so that you and your clients are on the same page. A daycare handbook is a great reference tool that works in conjunction with your daycare contract. Here are some of the essentials you w ill need for creating a [...]

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Daycare Business Management: What to Do When You’re Sick

October 4, 2010

Tweet Tweet Daycare business is unique in that if you become ill, you will have to make quick decisions about what to do with the children in your care. Just as a child becomes too sick for daycare, the provider can be too sick to care for children. The health and safety of the children [...]

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Coping with Daycare Provider Burnout

September 8, 2010

Tweet Tweet Children care providers will eventually experience some burnout from their daycare job.  According to Current Topics in Early Childhood Education*, “The quality of care children receive in child care centers is often threatened by “burnout”–the phenomenon defined as a loss of energy and interest in one’s job”.  Jeff A. Johnson, author of Keeping [...]

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What is Daycare Provider Burnout?

September 6, 2010

Tweet Tweet Eventually, childcare providers will experience some burnout from their daycare jobs.  According to Current Topics in Early Childhood Education*, “The quality of care children receive in child care centers is often threatened by “burnout”–the phenomenon defined as a loss of energy and interest in one’s job”.  Jeff A. Johnson, author of Keeping Your [...]

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How to Handle Returned Checks in Daycare

August 30, 2010

Tweet Tweet Many daycare business owners spend way too much time dealing with bounced checks and other collection issues. Dealing with return checks can be one very frustrating aspect of your child care job . However, by creating a solid returned check policy or preventing bad checks in the first place, daycare owners can reduce [...]

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What Daycare Providers Want Parents to Know Part 1

August 18, 2010

Tweet Tweet We asked our OwnADaycare Facebook fans who are daycare owners, to reveal information they would love to anonymously convey to parents. This information is helpful not only for parents who send their child to daycare, but also will help new daycare owners create and enforce policies for their daycare business. Concerns fell into [...]

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Why Own A Daycare Business?

August 4, 2010

Tweet Tweet Owning a daycare business is an undertaking not to be entered in to lightly. If you are trying to decide whether or not to take that leap read on. We asked our readers and OwnADaycare Facebook fans who are daycare owners to describe what they love about owning their own daycare business. Reasons [...]

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How to Prevent and Treat Summer Colds in Daycare Centers and Preschools

August 2, 2010

Tweet Tweet Summer colds occur frequently in preschoolers because of exposure to air conditioning, airplane travel and summer camp playmates.  In fact the viruses that can cause a summer cold are estimated to cause millions of summer colds each year.  Colleen Shamberger, RN, is a school nurse in Saratoga Springs, New York, and the mother [...]

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Daycare Enrollment Forms Your Daycare Business Must Implement

July 28, 2010

Tweet Tweet Each daycare business has its own individual enrollment procedures. All daycare providers , however, should require standard childcare enrollment forms in order to protect the children in their care as well as their daycare employees. There are a few simple enrollment daycare forms that all daycare businesses must implement: Registration Form The registration [...]

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Environmentally Friendly Daycare Playground Environments: Interview with Matt Haugh Part 2

July 9, 2010

Tweet Tweet Increasingly, more family daycare businesses are becoming environmentally safe and responsible.  Child care providers are special taking measures (as an important component of their daycare jobs) to ensure that the environment provides the best in health for children, offer locally-grown or organic food, and celebrate multiculturalism. Matt Haugh directs sales and marketing for [...]

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