| If you are the parent of small children anyway or | | | | Charges and Earnings |
| perhaps a grandparent with extra time on your | | | | If you have ever paid for daycare then you |
| hands, then you might want to consider opening | | | | already have a pretty good idea as to the |
| your own home daycare business. It is not | | | | charges and earnings to expect from running such |
| unusual at all for a home daycare business to | | | | a business. It is not uncommon, depending on the |
| begin in the home as a natural result of | | | | area and demand for quality daycare services, to |
| babysitting duties and then expand into something | | | | receive $150-$250 per week for children under |
| much larger. While not everyone will want to take | | | | the age of 5 and less for older children if you are |
| on the responsibility of caring for more children, | | | | contracted to watch them after school. Your |
| the fact is that a home daycare business has the | | | | home, state law, and the number of people caring |
| potential to blossom into a real opportunity. | | | | for the children will ultimately determine your |
| Essential Equipment and Requirements | | | | earnings. The more children you can legally take |
| State law will most likely require you to get a | | | | care of, the more money your home daycare |
| license in order to take your babysitting to the | | | | business will earn. |
| home daycare business level. This is to ensure | | | | Marketing |
| that you are qualified to care for small children. | | | | Quality daycare does not need much more than |
| You will also be required in most states to have | | | | word-of-mouth advertising and maybe a classified |
| insurance before officially opening a home daycare | | | | ad in order to effectively market services. As |
| business and make certain that your house is | | | | your business grows and should you decide to |
| suited for the new purposes you intend. Other | | | | make education part of the services offered (and |
| than these basic requirements which will vary | | | | remember that teaching will definitely require |
| depending upon the state in which you live, having | | | | certification and qualified teachers), then |
| age-appropriate games and activities will be the | | | | advertising in the Yellow Pages will become part |
| only other essential necessary to begin your | | | | of your marketing strategy. |
| home daycare business. Unless you need to make | | | | Most people do not plan to start a home daycare |
| improvements to your home in order for it to | | | | business but sometimes necessity and opportunity |
| meet the requirements of your state, you can | | | | combine and offer people the chance to go into |
| start a home daycare business for $1,000 or less | | | | business for themselves. There are licensing and |
| with most of this money going towards insurance | | | | insurance concerns, but the start-up costs for this |
| and licensing fees. | | | | type of business are pretty low, as are the |
| Skills and Training | | | | expenses. So if you love children and want to |
| Patience and a love of children is all you will really | | | | take babysitting to an entirely new and exciting |
| need in order to start your own daycare business. | | | | level, then consider opening a home daycare |
| Now it will look better if you have some sort of | | | | business and thus take control of your financial |
| background in Developmental Psychology or | | | | destiny while helping children and parents in the |
| teaching, but these are not requirements that are | | | | process! |
| necessary in most states. | | | | |