If you want to start your own day care and a vague idea of how to it, here are five easy steps that should help clear things up for you. We’ve taken all the steps and condensed them in to five practical things you should do before you start your own day care center.

First, make sure you know what you want to do. Create a business plan. Sit down with a piece of paper and a cup of hot tea and outline what you want to do. This should include the type of day care you want to run, when you plan to start, what you plan to do and how you plan to run it. It can include nitty-gritty details like what time you’ll want to be open and what time you close. Think on what type of clients you want to have. Are you hiring employees? Or will you run it yourself at the beginning? Do research on what you need to fulfill the rules and regulations of your state.

This simple business plan will smooth things out and make things easier for you. As you go along, you can continuously expand this business plan and keep adding to it as you learn. Think of it as a living thing, it will evolve as you do. Continue reading →