How to start a day care center

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How to Start
a Day Care
Center?

Who, What, When, Where and How to
Start a Day Care Center There is a
moment when in your mind you cross
the line between dreaming of running
your own day care center and actually
seeing it as a reality in your future.
When you make that transition, all of
a sudden, the details of what it will
take to both bring a day care into
existence and to operate it day in and
day out and make it a success begin to
become a reality to you as well. One
way of putting some organization
around your planning is to use the old
four Ws and an H system where in
you just ask yourself five basic
questions about what it will take to
start and operate your own daycare.
And those five questions are who,
what, when, where and how. 1. Who
will be your customers? In Field of
Dreams, the voice told Kevin Costner,
"If you build it, they will come." But

you need more specifics before
starting your day care. So you have to
understand where you are going to get
your first customers and then how
you will continue to build your day
care by getting new families. Start at
your "dream" of a day care and in
that vision of taking care of children
for a living. Where did the kids come
from in that vision? You should have
this question answered and have a
identifiable target market pinpointed
before you buy the first crib or swing
set for your day care. You need to
know there is a real need for what you
do. Moreover, the people who are
going to finance your dream must
know this or they wont give you the
money. 2. What will your day care
look like when it is a reality? This is
more than just day dreaming because
you need to have a feel for the size of
the day care center, for the types of
things that will happen in your day

care all day and for the way it is
decorated and equipped. Before you
develop your budget of how much
money to ask the bank for before you
actually start changing your day care
from a dream into a reality, you must
have a detailed list of the things you
will need, the remolding steps you
must take on a new facility to
transform it into a day care and how
much each of those things will cost. 3.
When will you open the day care?
Along with putting some real detail to
what will be in your day care, the
schedule of events between now and
when the doors open is important. A
schedule is more than just a time
frame with deadlines to hit. It is also a
way of laying out in enough detail that
you can get started, the work that
must be done and the order it must be
done in before you can move forward
with your development plan. Building
your plan from the general milestones

to the specific tasks is how you go
about creating a time frame for
success that is realistic and complete.
4. Where will you locate your day
care? You may be able to see the
building where your day care will
exist in your mind's eye but you need
more than that to actually get your
plan off the ground. You will need to
know first what you need in terms of a
physical facility and second, what
facilities are available in your market
area and what are their costs. The
first part you can hammer out in your
office with a pen and paper designing
the layout and size of your future day
care. The second part means getting
out there and looking at buildings and
talking to leasing agents. This is the
footwork of starting your day care
and it is important footwork for sure.
5. How do you get started? Guess
what? You have already started. By
taking these general questions, now

just start adding the detail to each
question. Before you know it you will
have a budget, a schedule and a
project plan for getting from the
dream stage to that day you cut the
ribbon and invite the first group of
day care kiddos in to enjoy what you
have to offer. And that day will make
all this hard work worth the effort.

How to start a day care center

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