This guide provides a comprehensive guide on starting a daycare business, covering various aspects such as writing a business plan, marketing, ensuring quality services, choosing a location, marketing, hiring, and managing day-to-day operations. It also discusses the importance of getting Early Childhood Education (ECE) credentials and the licensing requirements for daycare businesses.
Starting a daycare requires answering the question “why do you want to open a daycare?” This involves defining your ideal size of school, building style, location, supply and demand calculations, competition, financing requirements, staff size, and education.
To prepare for the transition, it is essential to provide early childhood educators with information about the upcoming event, friends who already attend daycare or school, and the teacher’s name. Discussing daycare positively with your child, emphasizing fun activities and the new environment, is crucial.
Preparing for the first day of daycare begins with thorough research, including researching daycares around you and the location. The transition process includes a tour, orientation sessions, and consultations with the room leader. Be transparent about daycare and explain what will happen on the first day. Establish an open relationship with your children and be transparent about daycare.
Settling in at daycare involves getting organized early, allowing plenty of down time at home, making special time at home with your child, visiting the new center together, and familiarizing your child with the caregivers. By following these tips, you can ensure a smooth transition and create a successful daycare business.
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What is the best age to start daycare?
Research indicates that the optimal age for a child to start daycare is at least 12-months-old. However, starting daycare too early can lead to increased stress levels in infants. To ensure a balanced approach, consider the child’s natural stress level and the duration of their stay at daycare. Infants experience higher stress levels when left at daycare for a full day, so it is recommended to stick to half-days until they are at least three years old.
A child’s natural stress level is crucial, as every child is different. An easy-going and calm child will have easier time adjusting to childcare, while anxious children may experience more separation anxiety. To test the child’s response, try half-days a few days a week and gradually extend the time until they are acclimated. By understanding your child’s stress and demeanor, you can make an informed decision about when to start daycare.
How do I convince my child to go to daycare?
To motivate your child to go to daycare, show them that you are confident they will have a good day. Remind them of the day’s schedule and focus on their favorite things. Trust your daycare and educator, and give them tasks to get involved. When you get to daycare, remind them of their favorite activities and games they played the day before. Keep your goodbye ritual brief, such as “I’m going to give you your hug and kiss, and then I’ll leave you with your educator. I know you’ll have a great day”.
If your child wants to stay home with you and your newborn, remind them that they are important to you. Inform your child of which parent will pick them up at the end of the day and when they’ll be picked up. If your child refuses to go to daycare, it may be a good idea to talk to their doctor.
Sometimes, a child who doesn’t want to go to daycare may show symptoms of anxiety, such as stomach ache, irritability, temper tantrums, refusing to get dressed, and trouble finding things. It’s best to take your child to daycare unless they’re sick, as the longer they stay home, the harder it will be to get them to go back.
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What should I tell daycare about my baby?
Daycare centers require information regarding the child’s breastfeeding status, formula use, or weaning process. A considerable number of childcare facilities have a policy of only accepting children who have been weaned. In the event that a mother is breastfeeding and wishes to send expressed milk, it is advisable to ascertain whether the daycare center is able to accommodate this request. Following the admission process, daycare centers typically implement their own set of regulations and may request the submission of additional forms and information pertaining to the parents and their child.
How do you introduce yourself at a daycare?
To establish a positive rapport with children, start by introducing yourself and stating your availability for assistance. This will help instill confidence in the child and make them understand that you are their teacher. It’s essential to speak at eye level and in a kind tone, as this will help them understand that you’re their teacher. Additionally, extend an introduction to parents at drop-off and pickup, as they’ll want to know who’s caring for their children all day. A simple “Hey, I’m here to help and answer any questions you have” can help ease their minds.
What do you say on childrens day?
Happy Children’s Day! Wishing you a day filled with laughter, joy, and endless adventures. May your childhood be filled with magical moments, cherished memories, and unwavering love. Wishing your dreams to soar high, your curiosity to know no bounds, and your heart filled with happiness. To the little bundle of joy who brings sunshine into our lives, may your day be as wonderful as you are. Wishing a fantastic Children’s Day to the most amazing kid I know. These heartwarming messages convey the warmth, love, and joy that children bring into our lives and the hopes we have for their bright future.
What to expect when a baby starts daycare?
Infants thrive in daycare settings if they receive attention, affection, playful interaction, and rich language experiences. A quality caregiver should be sensitive to a baby’s needs, comfortable expressing affection, and understand child development stages. The first few days and weeks may be difficult, but as you become more comfortable with the caregiver and your baby is well-cared for, you should feel better about sending your child to daycare. Trust your instincts and do what is best for you and your family, as you are not permanently committed to any child care situation.
What do you say to a child on the first day of daycare?
To help your child adjust to daycare, it’s crucial to discuss the expectations, activities, and the return process. Explain to them that they will be spending time with other children and that you will be returning to pick them up at the end of the day. Start with shorter sessions, such as dropping them off for an hour or two, gradually increasing the amount of time they spend at daycare. This will help your child become more comfortable with being away from you.
Establish a goodbye routine, which includes giving them a hug and kiss, reminding them of your love, and ensuring consistency in your routine. This will help your child feel more secure when you leave them at the center.
How do you handle kids in childcare?
Effective behavior management strategies in both center-based care and home settings include the following: maintaining straightforward and unambiguous rules, communicating expectations in a clear and consistent manner, engaging in open and transparent communication, setting positive examples, encouraging children to set positive examples, and providing clear and straightforward choices.
How do you handle starting daycare?
To successfully transition to child care, it is essential to organize early, allow plenty of downtime at home, make special time with your child, stay with them, say goodbye, build a relationship with their early childhood educators, and plan for breastfeeding. Child care is a new environment with new people and routines, so getting ready well ahead of time is crucial. Starting slowly, such as starting with short days and staying with your child, gradually build up to leaving them for a whole day, is also essential.
📹 ‘Utter incoherence’: Trump and Vance botch child care questions; destroy ‘family values’ narrative
Despite a nearly pathological fixation on “family,” Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance does not appear to have a very …
I am a Nurse Practitioner and did take time off (2 years) during COVID-19 for my 3 grandchildren so my daughter could finish Nursing school. We are now both working full-time. My daughter moved to MN to work for Mayo Clinic. Her cost for childcare and after-school care varies from 1500 to 3000/month! I live and work in Oregon, and our daughter couldn’t afford housing. Even in ww2 every woman, mom, grandma, grandpa was working. I am too young to retire, both by age and not having enough retirement. I always sacrificed as a single mom and now I still catching up. JD has no clue!
I am lucky enough that I waited to have my son til I was in my 30s, I work part time from home, and I have help from my family. We are able to live near family because my in laws sold us their parents home, cheap. I am not the norm. I know I am very lucky. The birth rate is going down in the US because of housing costs, education costs, childcare costs… countries like Sweden who actually value families will pay parents to stay home for a few years to raise their kids! I don’t want my kid in childcare, I want to raise him. But everyone should have a choice. And childcare needs to be quality and equitable, for the workers too.
THANK YOU!!! This is a major reason why a lot of people are choosing not to have children. It’s also one of the reason why some women who already have children get an abortion when they have an unintended pregnancy. People cannot afford to have children anymore! It’s not only childcare, but major aspects of life have become unaffordable and it’s to the point that even two incomes are not enough.
Trying to bring “family values” back to the repub party just ain’t gonna work. No one is forgetting E. Jean, Carrol, mocking a disabled reporter, the nick name for Elizabeth Warren, among myriads of other disgusting trump behaviors. “Family values” as a republican catch phrase is dead, end of discussion.
As an aunt that does indeed to provide free child care several days a week for my toddler niece, I can tell you: it’s only because I love my niece and there are no other options. I’m getting a graduate degree right now and I’m practically failing at it because I spend so much time providing free child care. I work as a TA and attend several classes every week as well. Because me and my partner (who works from home) schedules’ are less rigid, we can do it. But, it ain’t easy, and I’m not doing very well mentally because of it. You know what I definitely don’t want to do? Have my own kids. Since, ya know, I can barely keep up with someone else’s. So yeah, rely on that and see how many new parents you get out of it…
News flash, most grandparents to toddlers are in their 40s and 50s and still working full time. So it would be great grandma and great grandpa who are retirement age, but DJT killed them all off with his crappy covid policies. I love my grandkid, but I’m going to struggle to pay my bills to take a week off to help with him when his little brother is born. I would be homeless if i stayed home to babysit them. How about we balance the economy so only one parent had to work and the other could stay home and raise their kids. That would be pro family, but the Republicans would never go for that because they would have to give up a little of their CEO bonuses to pay their employees a living wage.
I’m GenX and I don’t live near my parents. When I became a parent, all the grands were employed full-time and even if they hadn’t been, a 4-hr trip each day to take kiddo to a grand’s house wouldn’t have been feasible. We found quality childcare in our city, but it was more than our mortgage. One of us not working was never an option or desire. My Boomer parents never lived close to family for work and my brother and I always had babysitters or childcare programs. (Edit fixed typo)
JD Vance lacks ideas, he is so incredibly out of touch with every issue posed to him. How on earth did he graduate from College, Trump is even worse, everything he says makes no sense, for example; child care. Where do Marco Rubio and Ivanka’s commitments fit, or come in, it is so crazy to even mention them and relate them to this issue!!!!
JD Vance is absolutely horrible. My poor mom almost had a nervous breakdown helping me with my 6month old when I had to go back to work. God Bless her, and God Bless ALL grandparents, but this is NOT the answer for exorbitant childcare costs. I still feel bad I relied on my mom’s help, as everyone knows babies can often be a huge stress. Childcare is based on age, the younger the baby the more expensive it is, it’s utterly a crippling cost. 😢💙👵
All the things you two women speak about are valid reasons Grandparents may not be the best choice for the daily care of their grandchildren. Another reason might be that the Grandparents DON’T WANT THE DAILY CARE OF THEIR YOUNG GRANDCHILDREN….no matter how much they surely love them, they want to enjoy their retirement years without the STRESS of caring for little children. Yes, they might be happy to ‘babysit’ for a day or two here and there, on a Saturday evening but all day every day of the week?! Most would say, ‘no thank you… I raised you kids…now it’s your turn to raise your own.’ After-thought to JD Vance…Has it occurred to you that You Could Be a Stay-at-Home Dad?!!!!?
Oh my lord, what a great discussion. I was very lucky regarding child care as I owned a cottage industry and had an exvercise franchise when my children were young. I did have to find a child care facility with my 4 year old son and was lucky enough to find a family run care facility that helped single mothers and used a government grant to charge on a sliding scale. My two oldest got in a school with the only after-school program in the area. These saved my life and could actually afford child care. This was mid/late 80s. Where are those programs now?
Someone should tell Vance that post menopausal means I did my time, visits are great, but on a daily basis, I am not the caregiver of your children. Between the two, DT and Vance, their answers are equally as stupid as anything I have heard! Grandparents/family, and DT response were simply stupid I am still trying to figure those out!
My grandchildren live 1 hour away and they live 2 hours away from the other Grandma. She had 8 kids and has 40 grandchildren so I don’t think she needs to babysit. Most are grown now but each situation is different. All grandparents aren’t capable of babysitting. Some grandparents are still working. I guess Mr. Vance ain’t got no common sense.
I think that Vance’s concept of a family is rather “cookie cutter”. In the 21st century there are many variations of what a family is. As far as grandparents, they are not always available because they also work! Some grandparents are much older and some have disabilities, some live faraway. The world cannot fit into your mold, JD.
In the UK, parents receive up to $2500 in childcare allowance for each child each year. This sum rises to $5000 if the child has a disability. In Germany, the allowance is $3600 for each child. In Australia, low and middle income families are paid 90 percent of childcare costs. In Canada, childcare benefit for children under six is up to $7700 per year.
Really, grandma and grandpa! My working class parents ( in their 50’s ) were still working when I had my first child. This isn’t going to work,plus my parents had three kids. When would they and other working class parents get a chance to have some life for themselves before dying? My mother died two weeks before her 60th birthday,and worked all her life. My father worked 32 years in the auto industry so he was supposed to babysit at 63 years old? Get real.
As a grandparent I am one of those where my son chose to move far away. But seeing my grandkids three or four times a year is wonderful. Modern grandparents are often highly educated and already have a full-time schedule. Our kids growing up and moving out on their own was so liberating. We love our family, but life has more passions than just children.
JD Vance, you are so far removed from understanding the daily struggles of many senior Americans, it strains the bounds of credulity!!! I retired several years ago and became a caregiver with for my grandson. Due to his special needs and the price increase on virtually everything including child care, I have quickly gone through my 401K funds and now must return to the work force to continue to pay my bills and put food on the table. I no longer can be available to support my daughter in being available 24/7 to meet his many inpatient and outpatient appointments. So she can no longer work. It falls to me to support us all.
They want to cut Social Security so people will have to work longer, yet somehow those same people are supposed to take care of their grandkids. The math doesn’t work. When I became a mother, my father had been dead for ten years, and my mother had dementia. She was in fact no longer to care for herself at all by the time he was 2. Grandparents helping out was not even an option. Fortunately, I was fairly high income. I don’t know what I would have done if that were not true.
Just NOTICE that every time J.D opens his mouth about anything, it always starts with “I think” . That speaks A LOT. He doesn’t base his takes or policies on ANYTHING substantial. It’s just ‘I think…I think I think’. Such choice of language reveals the thought process of the speaker. His brain refuses to confirm or deny the next few words that comes out so he subconsciously speaks the word ‘I THINK’ really quickly before spewing the rest.
Many seniors spend a lot of time tending to their health needs trying to navigate doctor appts for vaccines, wellness visits, scheduling cataract surgeries, etc., transportation issues such that they are unable to care for grandchildren on a constant basis. These folks are completely out of touch with the struggles of everyday people.
To have a panel asking Trump questions that are specific to a topic and he responds with some absolute nonsense that doesnt even answer the question, why dont they speak up and say so and ask again till he answers or admits he has no clue. Instead he is allowed to get away with it and recieves a round of applause for his effort. Its beyond ridiculous where nobody will hold him to account even during question time!
Some of this pro-family talk is largely about families dealing with issues, not the government. Your adult kid has a problem, family takes care of it. Sissy Lou needs child care help, family takes care of it. Medical issues and medicine, family of course. Poverty in the family some place, once again, family takes care of it. The family IS the social safety net. The crux here is if families are good little Christian incubators or at least conservative ones, no one needs a safety net from the government. In this delusion, poor families are simply lazy ones or sinful ones not receiving God’s blessing. That is why women need to be at home raising babies their whole lives. This pro-family thing includes education and anything else public that costs wealthy people money. If you need extra help, there are always churches too. But the pro-family thing is really code talk for head of household 1950s nostalgia. The family is the answer to everything. It appeals to a really oversimplified reality and wishfulness that borders on magical thinking. It has no real substance and can’t address the very real complexities of people’s lives.
I knew a grandmother who told me in tears she was told she was wasn’t worth anything unless she looked after her grandchild. It was heartbreaking to hear how worthless she was made to feel by her son in law. She also said she already had a child and was now at an age where she didn’t have the energy to look after her grandchild. I am sure that is the case for many grandparents. JD and 45 are ridiculous and have no grasp of reality.
Vance thinks all teachers should also be parents because that means they can teach and take care of someone else’s child because they have their own. So then shouldn’t all daycare workers also be parents themselves for the same reason? So how much do daycare workers get paid again? Will that provide enough income to help support the family? Don’t think so.
If Don-OLD Trump’s Republican Party’s VP pick Vance is serious of more babies, he must promise true financial aid to all mothers to raise their babies to 18 years. 1. Deposit $100,000 USD to the mother’s bank account the next day of the newborn baby. 2. Deposit $1000 USD each month for 18 years to the mother’s bank account to pay for 18 years of that baby’s growing up expenses. 3. Free university tuition and a guaranteed job after graduation. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Canada has been rolling out $10 per day childcare, coast to coast program, not all provinces on board but its already has 1 million kids in it. That is 1 in 3 that current exist in Canada. No grandma’s required. by the way after you have a child you get 1 year off with full pay. Canada’s national debt per capital is 1/4 of USA.
Friends of mine had 5 children who are now adults, having their own babies while pursuring demanding careers. My friends have aged about 10 years in the past 3, taking full-time care of their grandchildren, while their kids only see their children for the 20 minutes it takes to get them home to bed. Why their kids chose to have children is beyond understanding, and those adult kids do not see just how hard it is on their parents, who have aged dramatically. Of course, this is their family’s choice, and none of my business to judge, but I do see the wear and tear on the grandparents, and how trapped they feel by their kids. Not everyone is available, or can afford to simply step in to raise their grandchildren. And they deserve their retirement freedom: they’ve worked for it their entire lives! There is nothing wrong with a mulit-generational family model… but to refer to it as the fallback for society at large is sorely out of touch with the demands most people live with. Let’s let Vance stay home and raise his own children, while his wife goes back to her career, and his mother-in-law returns to hers!
It does not take a 6-year college or graduate degree to possess a certification or credential to work in childcare. Vance is just straight up lying when he says that. It’s 2 years at a minimum, and not even that, depending on what capacity one wishes to work with children. The most important part is the vetting process, for example, doing thorough background checks for anyone who wishes to work with children. If that’s the kind of regulation that Trump, Vance, and Project 2025 Republicans want to roll back, then that’s reason enough to vote for common sense Democrats in November, up and down the ballot, and a numbers two large two suppress, manipulate, or overturn 💙☮️🇺🇲🌊
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Remember that we also need to support the people working in childcare! I used to work in childcare, and at some point, I no longer felt like a teacher. I felt like a glorified babysitter. I left the profession because it was physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. In some ways, it is rewarding but overall, it is not. It is not a high-paying career. We need to support childcare workers better. They’re not just perusal kids. They’re teaching them important social and emotional skills, as well as getting children ready for kindergarten and primary school.
The idea that elder women look after their grandchildren isn’t ridiculous at all. It’s just generally outdated. That used to be standard – my grandmothers looked after us when our parents were busy or had to leave the house. That was the reason my parents brought them over from their countries of origin in the first place. But Americans don’t think of their families that way. In this country, parents are something to get away from, not people who are part of your family, who are all there for each other. The nuclear family has caused an enormous amount of hardship for parents which most people don’t want to admit.
My mother raised five children, and made it clear to us when we married that she was not to be counted on as a babysitter. She did love and cherish her grandchildren, but was probably glad that three of us didn’t have any children. So were we! We had different reasons for staying childless, and never regretted it. We all loved our the children of our three siblings who had them, and I especially spent a lot of time with them, even taking them on vacations with me frequently. My brother-in-law, who sired two of the children, frequently thanked me for spending so much time with them and influencing them for the good. However, I never wanted children on my own.😢
If the cost of having kids is so expensive, STOP BIRTHING KIDS. And don’t forget, every child means a fat tax exemption against their taxes, every year! This is NOT a deduction, but a direct, dollar for dollar credit. My wife and I had two girls. There was no credit program back then and we managed to raise both without being out in the street.
No Republican politician has dealt with the real facts, the real costs for families in several years. Their notion of “pro-family” depends on the RICH familiy, while blaming poorer families for being bad families. My husband and I have no living parents and haven’t had even one for 35 years. My mother actually did help a few hours a day, so I could work from home…for a few years. Then I was caring for her, and our son. Vance’s attitude toward women should make him unelectable…HALF THE COUNTRY is female. And he thinks we’re useless, have no value, other than breeding or maybe caring for grandchldren? That’s disgusting.
Yes, its a great idea to take advantage of your parents and ask them to care of their grand children and not pay them for doing your job. You didn’t answer the question. Their your kids, you chose to have them. If you would resolve the high cost of day care (which once again you didn’t answer the question) don’t you think that it would be right to compensate your parents for raising your children? Your parents had to choose to work or stay home with their own children, and budget on a single income. Don’t have children unless you can afford them in the world today, unless you and Trump can find a way to lower child car cost!! If you have children as soon as you get married lets say at 20 years old don’t you think your parent will still need to work to pay their bills, pay taxes and have health insurance until they are 65?. Who is going to take care of your parents?? You are so out of touch with with the working class people in the United States. Vote BLUE don’t let Trump and clueless JD get into office and not resolve the issues that come with having children. VOTE BLUE!!
What woman is voluntarily paying for childcare when grandma is sitting home bored and unemployed? Also, if you’re in your 20s and 30s, having small children, chances are both your parents are still working full-time jobs, not retired and knitting somewhere. Of all the things we could spend money on as a society, subsidizing child care seems like the best possible option. More children are good for the economy. More working women are good for the economy. More daycares, more daycare workers are good for the economy. Republicans need to stop pretending that we live in a world where women can afford to stay home with their kids. They wanted a capitalist hellscape and they got it, now they need to figure out how to make it work in a way that doesn’t cause a population collapse.
I am one of those parents: 1) Who live far away from her parents (dad died in 2021) and siblings; and 2) Whose parents and siblings have health issues and/or full-time jobs that would make them unable to care for their grandchildren/nieces/nephews full-time, even if I did live close. Not to mention, there are people with toxic and abusive families whom they would never allow to look after their kids. These guys are so out of touch, it’s disgusting.
I’m 63, retired, and I do watch my grandkids… TWO days a week. Not only do I have a life of my own, but I also have a back injury, so physically I’m not able to watch them full-time. DT and JD have no clue what they are talking about, and don’t live in the real world. Let them TRY to live in our world for just a couple of weeks and see what would happen!
Grandma and Grandpa can’t afford to retire, so they are still working until the age of 70 and beyond. They are not at home to provide childcare. Has he just crawled out from under a rock. If I had my children before the age of 40 and they are now forced to have children, when they aren’t financially ready, I am only going to be age 58-62, so I might have another 8-10 years before I can retire and take care of grandchildren. Grandma’s used to be stay at home moms, but not my generation, we worked out of necessity because 40-50% of woman were divorced single moms, when their husbands cheated and/or didn’t fulfill their obligations. This is an argument for families to live in extended family housing arrangements and not in a nuclear family housing arrangement. Intergenerational living is a good thing, but most Americans don’t or can’t do it.
Excuse me. The GOP wants to cut Social Security. Grandma and Grandpa have to keep WORKING much longer than they feel able. Unless their workplace provides free daycare, they couldn’t care for their grandchildren if they wanted . GET A CLUE. People that WORK for a living are the people who need government to help with childcare, guarding social security and other must haves. Trump showed who he supported with a tax cut for the rich while passing virtually nothing for the middle class.
I got a little curious about JD Vance’s wife. She worked in alongside Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court. She is knee deep in the political judicial career. JD Vance doesn’t want his wife to vote based on her decision. He feels he should make that decision for her, on his voting ideas. He feels that a family should have a vote count per head within that family unit with the father deciding how who should be voted for or agains. So if you have 8 kids and a wife, your household contributes 10 votes in an election. Vance and Trump want to do away with Wive’s having a career, making a family unit consisting of a Man, a stay at home wife, and cutting out benefits for childcare, (through P2025’s Mandate for Leadership A transition into the White House Plan). JD Vance’s wife has quite a history as an attorney and as recently as July 2024 had a steadily upward career when she suddenly decided to be a stay at home mother to focus on the family. She’s been working in political law for quite some time. She was a democrat up until 2014 when she married good ol’ JD. But, Guess what? She married this guy and she must become republican. Surprise surprise. This venture to politics appears to have been a ladder climbing event for them both and 10 years later she suddenly becomes a stay at home mom? He’s finally made it while she worked her way up for his foot in the door. There is definitely a cult agenda drive in this political party that has been in the works for a very long time.