Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care: Your Step-By-Step Business Plan (Self-Counsel Business)

by Catherine M. Pruissen

Book Overview

If you love working with children and want to run your own business, a home day care could be your perfect opportunity. With a low initial cash investment and a huge potential market, a home day care... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889082944
• ISBN13: 9780889082946
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Self-Counsel Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

What a great book to get started with

I knew I wanted to start a home daycare when I got pregnant with my first child so I could stay home and enjoy her rather than going out to work. I came across Start and Run a Home Daycare on another Web site and knew I had to order it. Am I glad I did. This book took me through the process in a way that made a lot of sense. What I liked the most were the forms I could use to operate my daycare and the information on child development and child safety. Being a new parent I found this information most helpful. The book's inside design is also charming and the recipies and activities with each chapter are a nice touch. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to start a daycare. It's my business bible.

Extremely helpful!

I have referred so often to this book the edges are tattered and worn. Besides being a great reference tool for working out my policy statement and my rates, the book took me through every step I needed to get my daycare home organized. Even helped me list all the supplies and furniture I'd need, not to mention all the safety issues and recipies it has. I simply won't part with my copy.

Making a Profit?

When it comes to making a profit.. the bottom line is budget.Can you honesty say that children are not worth every penny?NO.This book has a reality to the cost effectiveness of running a seldom lucrative business. Ideally this woud be the case if you planned a business to take advantage of the core market. In this book the author is trying to guide would-be daycare providers in a more acceptable way to manage a daycare. It definitely takes time and money to nuture a child... but it also takes love, patience, understanding, determination, committment to guide children in everyday development. It is true that one should not take on the responsiblity of handling several children at one time unless their capable and willing to make everyday sacrifices.

Enormously helpful guide in getting me started in day care!

I owe the library a fortune because I can't let go of this book! My day care is only a few weeks old and I'm still referring to C. Pruissen's book. I found the policies section got me writing my own Policies and Procedures Statement with confidence. She is detailed in her samples and advice so that every area of need is addressed thoroughly. Best book on the subject-and I've read many. Hope it's reprinted soon!