How to Interview Potential Employees for Your Daycare

Posted: February 7th, 2010 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: Business Requirements, Interview Potential Employees, Management, Opportunities, Parent Handbook | Tags: | Comments Off

Having a daycare center, you need to hire employees, but of course, you want to see to it that you will be getting the right employees, employees that can aid you to success. You need to make sure that the applicants are qualified for the position, interviewing them is the thing you need to conduct to know your applicants.

You need to establish structure before you interview applicants, in this way; you can control of the interview and can gain all the information that you to in order to come up with a good decision.

There lots of things that you need to consider in making a structured interview, this is what you need to do, greeting and nonverbal assessment, brief conversation, 5-10 warm up questions, 20 behavioral questions, clarify concerns, ask for references, tell them to weigh things out and call them, make an handshake and say goodbye. Move to the next interviewers until the process is complete. Read the rest of this entry »


Why You Should Create a Parent Handbook for Your Daycare

Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: Business Requirements, Daycare Business Plan, Management, Parent Handbook | Tags: | Comments Off

Setting up rules and regulation in a daycare will benefit you from any unwanted claims of a parent in a daycare. There should be limitations or restrictions that you should set and inform the parents. Letting the parents know that there are restriction and limitation on your daycare so that they will understand that you can and can’t provide for them.

Provide them a copy of your handbook, let them sign and understand the rules and regulation before you accept them as your customer. This will lead to no misunderstanding between you and the parents. Read the rest of this entry »


Legal Responsibilities When Running a Daycare

Posted: November 20th, 2008 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: CPR, First Aid Training, Insurance, Legal Responsabilities, Licensing, Management, Parent Handbook, Record Keeping | Tags: | Comments Off

Do you have your own daycare center? Do you know your duties as an owner and manager of your business? There are business owners who are unaware of the legal implications of being the owner and manager of their facility. You have lots of duties and you need to know what are required in order not to put yourself into conflicts when fulfilling your duties.

You need to think about the real interest of your facility, you need to check on it all the time. Know all the responsibilities that you need to meet and consider when you are running your own business. Legal responsibilities should be thought about. If you want to gain success, you need to consider your legal responsibilities. Read the rest of this entry »


Plan Daycare Activities

Posted: November 20th, 2008 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: Activities, Equipment, Management, Parent Handbook, Toys | Tags: | Comments Off

Having daycare activities can help you gain many new clients. Definitely, parents are not only looking for someone to watch over their children but also someone that can help their children develops and become a better person. Parents would want to see their kids learn and have fun. Introducing activity everyday to the children under your premises can help them develop physically, mentally and emotionally. Yes, you need to let them enjoy and learn new things each day.

In preparing activities for the children, you have to consider the ages of the kids. Young toddlers need activities that are more basic and easy to play. Read the rest of this entry »


How to Report or Handle Potential Child Abuse

Posted: November 20th, 2008 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: How To Report, Management, Parent Handbook, Potential Child Abuse, Start Child Care | Tags: | Comments Off

It may be shocking, but it is a fact that there are children that are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who ignore them. Actually, this happens each year and there are about thousands of children were abused. With this, the scar is truly deep and lasting that not only the kids are continually affected by the society as well. As an owner and manager of a daycare center, you need to learn the signs and symptoms of child abuse in order to know what to do and to get help.

There are four types of child abuse and these are physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Read the rest of this entry »


Why You Should Create a Parent Handbook for Your Daycare

Posted: November 13th, 2008 | Author: davidguide | Filed under: Business Requirements, Investors, Marketing, Parent Handbook | Tags: | Comments Off

Setting up rules and regulation in a daycare will benefit you from any unwanted claims of a parent in a daycare. There should be limitations or restrictions that you should set and inform the parents. Letting the parents know that there are restriction and limitation on your daycare so that they will understand that you can and can’t provide for them.

Provide them a copy of your handbook, let them sign and understand the rules and regulation before you accept them as your customer. This will lead to no misunderstanding between you and the parents. Read the rest of this entry »