How to start a daycare

Record Keeping Guidelines for Daycare Business Income Taxes

January 12, 2011

Tweet Tweet Starting a daycare business is a wonderfully rewarding career. However, record keeping and filing taxes for your daycare business can be daunting and confusing. What records do you need to keep? How long do you need to keep records and receipts? In this brief guide, you will find general guidelines for record keeping [...]

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How to Start a Family Daycare: Sole Proprietorship VS Partnership

January 5, 2011

Tweet Tweet Staring a daycare business can be a confusing process. Should you become sole proprietor of your daycare business? Should you incorporate your daycare business? How do you incorporate your business? These are some questions to ask yourself before you begin the daycare licensing process. Susan Cooper, M.Ed, and member of the non-profit Applied [...]

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How to Start a Daycare Business: Is Daycare Right for Me?

December 27, 2010

Tweet Tweet Before deciding to start a daycare business it is important to assess if the business of daycare is for you. This means asking yourself a few simple questions about your personality, your skills and experience. This also means you must also assess the space you are planning for the daycare business. Personal Attributes [...]

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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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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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Environmentally Friendly Daycare Playground Environments: Interview with Matt Haugh Part 1

July 7, 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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Interviews with Daycare Business Owners: Meet Angie Koboldt

May 27, 2010

Tweet Tweet As part of our Interviews with Daycare Business Owners series, we interviewed Angie Koboldt of The Thoughtful Spot Day Care in Lake City, Michigan. OwnADaycare: Please describe your childcare business. When and why did you start your daycare/childcare business? Angie Koboldt: I started my childcare business in 2004.  I decided that I wanted [...]

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Interviews with Daycare Business Owners: Meet Deborah Sexton

May 20, 2010

Tweet Tweet As part of our Interviews with Daycare Business Owners series, we interviewed Deborah Sexton of Debbie’s Daycare in Lincoln, NE. OwnADaycare: When and why did you start your daycare/childcare business? Deborah Sexton: I started my daycare when my granddaughter was born, and I had 3 surgeries in one year. The time had come [...]

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Daycare Center Alternatives

December 9, 2008

Tweet Tweet Daycare centers are play area where working parents can leave their child for the day so that the parent may be able to go to work. Not all find a happy situation with regards to engaging the services of a day care facility for a child. So if a child is unhappy in [...]

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