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The first step is to prepare a business plan. Even if you will not be applying for a bank loan, a business plan helps you to think through your business – what it needs, who it will benefit, how much it will cost, and what is its potential. Here are free business plans on childcare business that you may want to look into:

http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc

http://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf

http://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf

http://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm

You may want to read the following articles:

Starting a Child Day Care Business http://www.libsci.sc.edu/BOB/class/clis748/Studentwebguides/ss02/pollack2.htm
Childcare.net http://childcare.net/indexnew.shtml
Starting a child-care services business http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,290241,00.html
How To Start Your Own Day Care Center http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm
HOW TO START A QUALITY CHILD CARE BUSINESS http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-29.pdf

For in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:

- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care
- The Daycare Provider’s Workbook
- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business
- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center :
Everything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program

It is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html

As for the licenses and requirements in your state, the Administration for Children and Families provide a state by state listing of contacts for licensing and regulations governing child care businesses:
http://www.nccic.org/statedata/dirs/regoffic.html

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I put my oldest daughter in an at-home day care from 5 1/2 months through 2 1/2 years old. It was wonderful because I knew that she was getting the attention she needed. You need to make sure that the day care isn’t going to take lots of kids or another baby, which would impact the amount of time she could spend taking care of your littlest one. It was good for our family. I would just caution you to question all of them on how many kids they take in as well as the ages. Also ask if they plan on driving or if they have visitors during the day. My day care provider’s mother would come over occasionally and visit, which I didn’t have a problem with, but if it had been a brother or dad or uncle, I don’t know. Also, make sure that they have an OPEN DOOR policy. You should be able to drop in early, unannounced, whenever you want. If they don’t agree to this, then do not sign anything! Good luck!!!

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Go down to the Child Development Center [CDC] on post. They have a class that lasts two weeks in order to be a in home day care provider. They normally need many of them. It is very tough at times because you have to put in classroom plans, have excruciating inspections, and write about each child’s advancements every week. If you need to find out more look online at your post’s website. You can find that by adding your post’s name then army.mil. [Example: www.kaiserslautern.army.mil] Look under ‘Newcomers Guide.’ It will point you in the right direction.

Good Luck!

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Go to your city hall and find out everything you need to open a home daycare…also you may want to take classes because a lot of places require you have at least a certificate first… Kaplan Online University is good

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Olivia

$ 5.00 X 8 = $ 40

May be around 50 to 60 a day in Michigan or In the USA.
In Vietnam $ 600/month for foreign, and 600,000 VN piastes /month.

I guess so.