When you are running your own in home daycare, it is important to keep your spaces clean. It can become overwhelming if you do not have a schedule that you follow. Of course anything that a child puts in their mouth needs to be put aside and sanitized before returning it to the play area. I would recommend having a bucket or basket available near your play area that is labelled TO BE SANITIZED or MOUTHED TOYS, so during nap…
It was a big decision that I made to walk away from the corporate world to start my own small business. I decided to run my own in home daycare instead of working at large chain daycare. It was defiantly fun at the beginning because it was brand new. Everything is always exciting when its brand new. Unfortunately, things don’t stay brand new! Over the months, I was trying to get myself to adapt to the routine and schedule I…
You may be wondering, “What kind of day we have as a home daycare provider!” Each day is pretty much the same schedule and/or routine, but of course children can have their ups and downs. Some days kids want to participate and other days they don’t. Which is fine! I will break it down with how I am able to run a home daycare out of my house. Morning Routine/Schedule I open at 6:30 am during the school year (7:30…
Are you thinking of opening an in home daycare and quitting your fulltime job? One of the biggest question one may ask is, “Can I make a fulltime paycheck opening an in home daycare?” The answer is YES!!! It does ultimately come down to how much you charge per child and how many children you watch. Most states an in home daycare can only watch 6 children at a time. If you are going to charge $200 a week per…
When it comes to running an in home daycare, you will want to have some fun and safe things for your kids to play with, but also budget friendly. The weather is going to break soon and be consistently nice so your kids can play outside. The last thing you want is to buy something and it fall apart quickly or just isn’t safe or licensed approved. If you choose to get a playset that involves climbing up or swinging,…
When running a small business, you are always going to run into a difficult situation with behavior from a child. Having a daycare in your home, you might find that it happens more often than you may have thought. When I first started thinking about opening an in home daycare, I didn’t think about having difficult children to watch after. I have had to deal with this scenario twice now. Not that I want it to have happened, but it…
If you are having thoughts about starting a daycare in your home, now is the time! The support that is out there now for providers that run daycares in their homes is huge. It is also a growing industry, will thousands of home daycares across the United States. Having an in home daycare is rewarding. You get to do what you love, taking care of kids, from the comfort of your home. And to top it off, you can make…
Summer is right around the corner and now is the time to start preparing. If there are things that will need fixing or replaced you’ll want to budget for that. I would just walk around your yard and make a list of things that might needing fixing or updated. Then make a list of things you would want to purchase for the kids to play with. This way you can number what is the most important and what is the…
We as small business owners often wonder how to make our business stand out from our competition. It is important to make a list of things that are important to you and then make a list of things that you think would be important to parents. It is important to make sure that you can keep up with the promises that you will make to these parents. Don’t just tell them something to get them to sign up because you…
Of course everyone wants to know, “How much can an in home daycare provider make per year watching kids from their home?” It isn’t a very simple answer. Now if you want to just say I charge X amount and have X amount of kids that I watch and that equals your pay, than great! But, I want to add in the cost of food, rent/utilities, etc. into your revenue as well. So, than you can truly see if what…