How To Start A Day-Care Biz In Your Home
By BB Lee
How To Start A Day-Care Center In Your Home by BB Lee (C)2001
Many parents across the country need some form of child care at different stages of their childs development. This might only be for a short term service, a one time event, or for several months. This is where your service will easily fit-in to provide the needed care for their children. This would be an excellent home business for a single mom and/or stay at home mom looking for a good solid income. Why? Because of the relatively low startup cost and the moms get to stay home with their own children!
Duties:
You will care for your clients children in your home. Be sure to check the laws in your state before opening your Day Care Center.
Skills:
Experience working with small groups of children. Able to work under all kinds of pressure. Know basic first aid procedures. Studied eary childhood development. Or use experience raising your own children. A kind, considerate, patient, understanding, personality. Be able to communicate with children on their level. Must really love working with children.
Equipment:
A large open childproof area to keep charges. A good selection of educational toys, books, games, crafts. Child size furniture.
Plenty of storage equipment. Outside safe area for children to play. Clean dinning area.
Business telephone line.
Record keeping books.
Start-up costs:
Several hundred dollars for play equipment, books, games, toys. Funding to childproof the center. Money for liability and medical insurance. Funds for advertising and licensing fee's.
Estimated Income:
National rates for child care vary. Rates are considerably higher in urban markets compared to smaller rural towns. Also, how much you will earn will be limited by the number of charges you are allowed to have enrolled in your day-care center. Many states have a limit ( typically 4 or 5 ) under one adults supervision. At this writing the typical day care provider in an urban setting could reasonably expect to earn around $20,000 and up working full time, year around.
Advertising Strategies:
Place ads, flyers, and brochures in community centers, local shops. Advertise in local area papers.
Word of mouth is the most powerful advertising. If your first clients are satisfied with your service they will surely tell their friends, family, neighbors.
Additional Information:
Books:
Start Your Own at Home Child Care Business by Patricia C. Gallgher
How to Start a Home Based Day-Care Business by Shari Steelsmith-Duffin
Books available at Barnes And Noble.
Internet Sources:
The Daycare Provider's Home Page http://www.icomm.ca/daycare/ Links to everything from activity guides to legal and insurance information sites.
National Network for Child Care http://www.nncc.org/
Includes articles on starting and running a child-care service.
Organizations:
National Association for Family Day Care 725 15th Street, NW
Suite 505
Washington, DC 20005
(800) 359-3817
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