How can you profit from the boom in child care services? Here are a few suggestions.
1. Provide Child Care from Your Home
Would you like to provide child care services from your own home? If so, here is some advice obtained from an experienced child care provider:
-There may be laws in your area that limit the number of children (other than your own) that you can care for from your home. It could be just five or six children.
-Don’t do half days. If someone drops their child off just for the morning and someone else drops their child off just for the afternoon, it still ties you down all day.
-If you’re going to be tied down all day, you might as well get paid for it. Charge for full days and full weeks.
-Keep in mind that with a limit to the number of children you can legally care for from your home, accepting a child just on Wednesdays will mean that you are not able to take another child from Monday to Friday (because then you’ll have one child too many on Wednesdays). This limits your income.
-Be extremely safety conscious. Children are precious.
-You really must love children to successfully...