One of the easiest home businesses you can start is a family daycare business, where you take care of your neighbor or friend's children in your home. States normally require daycares to be licensed, but some states allow unlicensed family child care businesses provided they don't exceed the number of children allowed. What is a Family Child Care Business? A family child … [Read more...] about Starting a Family Child Care Business
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Running a Daycare Business: Importance of Encouraging Creativity
When starting a daycare business, the safety and well being of the kids at our daycare is our primary responsibility as providers. We are not however merely babysitters, nor referees at some chaotic miniature wrestling event (though often times it feels that way) but facilitators, entrusted with the important task of nurturing and developing the whole child. Encouraging … [Read more...] about Running a Daycare Business: Importance of Encouraging Creativity
How to Start Your Own Daycare Business
Articles in the Starting a Daycare Business Series: How to Start Your Own Daycare BusinessWhat Do You Need to Open a Daycare Business?Why You Cannot Get a Daycare LicenseStarting a Day Care Business on a Shoestring BudgetOperating a Daycare CenterCaring for the ChildrenIncome Potential of a Daycare BusinessManaging Your Daycare BusinessComplementary Businesses for Additional … [Read more...] about How to Start Your Own Daycare Business
Operating a Daycare Business and Caring for the Children
Operating a Daycare Center You'll need to decide on your regular day care hours. Generally, these are from 6 a.m. through 6 p.m. You'll also need to decide whether you want to offer breakfast for the children. If so, you'll have to plan for a cook and food supplies for morning meals. We'll discuss kitchen facilities and kitchen help later, but the first decision must be if … [Read more...] about Operating a Daycare Business and Caring for the Children
Advantages of Hiring Your Kids in a Small Business
Wise small business owners don’t simply give their children an allowance for doing chores around the house. Instead, they hire them in their small businesses and give them money in the form of a paycheck. If you operate a small business and have kids who live with you or near you, it may be worth having them do some work in your company. Often called “income shifting” in … [Read more...] about Advantages of Hiring Your Kids in a Small Business