starting a daycare

How to Start a Home Daycare Business: Interview with Susan Cooper

May 17, 2010

Tweet Tweet Owning and operating a daycare business can be a huge task worthy of special considerations. In our interview with Susan Cooper, M.Ed., early child development expert and member of Applied Scholastics International, Cooper provides sound advice for those interested in starting a daycare business and guidance for success. OwnADaycare: If you could warn [...]

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Interviews with Daycare Business Owners: Meet Cindy Vess

May 17, 2010

Tweet Tweet As part of our Interviews with Daycare Business Owners series, we interviewed Cindy Vess of Vess Daycare in Topeka, Kansas. OwnADaycare: When and why did you start your childcare business? Cindy Vess: I started on 1980, because that’s what I had chosen to do for a living, not just to stay at home [...]

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Starting a Daycare Business Resource List

May 10, 2010

Tweet Tweet Whether you’re in the planning stages or you’ve owned a daycare for years, there is much knowledge to gain about the key aspects of operating a daycare business. There are tons of daycare and child care business resources such as books and online document to help support your daycare business startup. Here is [...]

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Free Printable Daycare Forms and Preschool Forms

November 18, 2009

Tweet Tweet Home daycare providers can cut costs by finding daycare forms online. Contracts, policies, authorization forms, permission slips, daily reports, and other forms are critical to daycare business administration. Rather than creating forms from scratch, owners of child day care centers can print out important forms and customize them. Consider the following resources for [...]

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Insurance for Your Family In-home Daycare

October 8, 2009

Tweet Tweet When you open your child care center, many of the rules and regulations you will be under are enforced by the state in which you live. Insurance requirements are one such regulation that varies from state to state. However, you should invest in insurance in order to protect yourself, your daycare business, your [...]

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