How can I start a child care center? I live in Illinois, where can I find the funding to finance my venture? I have two semesters until I finish my bachlors in sociology but I am thinking of sitting out and starting my business. I have three children,single parent and good child care is always an issue for me to work traditional hours. I am always told I am good with children and my ultimate college and career goals is to work with women and children. Where can I find help to start a business and is this a good idea?

I am trying to get things together to start a child care center for disabled children. I am in need of funding I have heard there is government money out there for small businesses and maybe I could get a grant from the no-child left behind act. How do I go by this and where can I find them. Thanks.

I want to start a child day care center where should I start? Are there any good schools in georgia?

How much does it cost to start up a child care center?

I have an AA Degree in child care can I start a child daycare center?

I need some information on free legitimate government grants for starting a child care center?

I would like to open a preschool/child day care center, I really do not no where to start. HELP!? I live in New York, just need some direction.

how to start child care center in lucknow? help m out wid any sample business plan on it...

should i start my own child care at home? ive been working for child care centers in the bay area for almost 5 years now. ive been going to school and learned about how people started there own program at home. i was wondering going through all the trouble of getting license and the expenses. is it worth it to start my own child care program at my own home in the bay area?

Child Care Center.... NEED A NAME!!!? I currently am a stay at home mom but also keep another child in my home. His mother and myself and starting a child care center this summer and need a name! I would love to incorporate a Christian meaning but that is not required. So far, I have a few I like. Let me know what you think or we are very open to suggestions!! All of the following would end with "Child Care" Building Blocks Mothers Love Little Hands Little Blessings Little Lambs Precious Moments

Can you start a child day care center with just an associates in early childhood education? For the state of maryland I know you can open a child day care center with a degree in early childhood education but i was wondering if an associates was ok or if it had to be a bachelors. I know the higher the education the better but I was wondering if it could be done with an associates. None of the websites are specific. Please serious answers only. Thanks in advance!

How to write a philosophy for a Child Care Center? Any tips or ways that I can start it.? Can anyone help me. I know I want to have a play based program but not sure what else I should include. Please help me and give me any suggestions. Thanks for your time.

How can I start a day care center in virginia? I have worked in a few day care centers, and they are not exactly what I would want if I were a parent for my children. So I figured that I can try to change that and give back to my community. I am currently out of the child care profession and I want to get back in. My dream is to own a day care center, I know that they do not make a lot of money I am not doing it for that reason, I just love the smiles on the childrens faces when they saw me every morning. I would like to know what are the start up costs are as I do not have very much money, How much supplies are, if I could get a grant and if they are actually possible, and if I need a license. I think a prayer is what I need. Haha. Thankyou everyone for your answers.

positive mantoux, child care center...HELP!!!!? I have a history of negative mantoux tests, decades. In mid-August I had a negative mantoux, and then last week I had a mantoux test for another job. I had immediate intense itching, eyes burning, scratchy, developed hives on my neck on the car ride home. I have gone to an infectious disease dr, they did AFB cultures, when can I get the results? My current job, started in September is at a daycare center, w/ +/-100 children and >100 families involved. Employees are not required to have mantoux tests in child care centers in MN. I am very concerned someone is spreading TB at the child care center, but the health dept. is not!! I have had very little contact with anyone other than the children and employees there. Kids (some adopted from russia, india, etc)and adults have been coughing since I started working there. Was it the allergic reaction that caused the positive TB test, or a booster effect, or? If you have kids in child care centers, make sure all workers are screened!! It was a transdermal PPD Mantoux, not a multi-pronged test. Induration measured 22 X 21 mm. Adopted children from foreign countries are cleared by a physician in that country, not the U.S. MN is a state that no longer screens children, uless there are symptoms that would indicate the test. There are many symptoms of TB, but most common are cold symptoms and a cough that lasts greater than 2 - 3 weeks, sometimes blood streaked, fatigue, night sweats, low fever. How many times do you think doctors see children with cold symptoms? It's just a cold, right? Just because there is medication available that could hopefully kill it off, should we not try to prevent the spread of the disease? I had two mantoux tests within that time 1.) for a state license I needed, and 2.) for a new job that required it within 30 days of hire. False positives are possible from a booster effect, go to your favorite search engine and type in "tuberculosis booster effect." Many misconceptions w/TB.

What is necessary to start a home child care service? I am going to be a first time mommy this September, and I am frantic about having my child watched at someone elses home, however at this time my husband and I cannot afford for me to not work at all. The pay scaling works that he will make double what he is now... in 3 years (I could stop working in about...1-2 years). So I have some time to occupie. I worked in a nursury a few years ago with a church during sunday service, with the babies and toddlers too young for sunday school. I usually had 2-3 todlers and 2 babies at once for 3 hours. I am great with kids and have always been able to bond with them quickly, and I am very confident in my abilities to care for 1-2 children along with my own at my home. A little more about my self and situation. We live in a smaller city next to a larger city with a Boeing factory that is working 24-7. I would be willing to do evening or day care depending on the need. We curently have a familyroom that we are in the process of refinishing, that I could turn into a baby/nursury room for the children that is right next to the kitchen for snacks etc. We have two cats that can be maintained completely away from the children, I have a very clean/neat/disinfected home where I use environmentaly safe cleaning detergents and products and we have also completed/passed a home study for adoption (not sure if thats necessary for home child care center). What I need to know more about is how do I get started. I wouldnt start until after the first of the year, when my child is atleast 2 months old. I have the general idea of setting up the room, toys, nap areas where to get these items gently used etc. I know where and how to get child CPR classes and certification. I can advertise at the factory as well as online. What I am not sure about is do I need to be licenced? If so where do I do that, what classes might be necessary? Or is it something I can set up in my home, and advertise my qualifications, the environment etc. I want to be appealing to mothers and fathers of all kinds especially ones like my self, who have a hard time with the idea of someone else watching their child. I know a lot of mothers that would love a super clean home and person watching their child. I am not sure what other things I need to consider while reparing, and I am not 100% sure this is something that I am doing, but I am definatly confident in my abilities to do so, it all depends on finding other parents with child care needs. Definatly I hear you there.

where would you start if you wanted to try to change a states child care ratios? i recently posted a question about how other mothers would feel if they were to put there 2 year old in a child care center with ratios like these. There are no centers except 1 that do infants so i will leave out the infant ratio this center is the exception but thereis a year long waiting list and unless you sihn up your child before birth they won't get in not to mention it is over 150.00 a week at this peticular center here are the ratios 1 year olds 10 children to 1 care provider 2 year olds 12 children to 1 care provider 3 year olds 14 children to 1 care provider 4 year olds 16 children to 1 care provider do you all get the picture most of these centers cost between 98 to 125 a week and many of them have had serious problems at one center a who was 8 months old pulled a crock pot down and recieved serious borns and brain damage one center locked a child on a bus for four hours and tried to cover it up many centers hire with out background checks where do i start to fix this just so everybody knows i live in florida and there have been many accidents besides the 2 i wrote about but i didn't have enough room. would you leave your kid in one of these centers????????

How do I go about owning my own child day care center? What degrees / certifications do I need and what major should I look into to? I'm basically looking for the stepping stones of how to get started, and where to go from there. Please be detailed. Thanks in advance.

I work at a Day Care Center. A new child has started and she cries continuously. Can you advise or help? I have a new child who just started on Monday of this week. She is 15 months old, and cries all of the time. She won't eat her breakfast or lunch or even her snack. She still is taking a bottle, (?), and won't even take that. I know that she is teething, and give her Orajel as needed. She just cries. I spoke to the Parents today, and they told me that she was at another Day Care Center, and had the same problem. It took her three weeks before she got comfortable. Her ethnic background is the same as all of the other children. If I hold her, she cries. If I put her down, she cries. She is only happy, or rather, content is she is laying down in her crib. There are no toys or special things in her crib. She just lays there, sucks her thumb and cries. Can anyone please, please help me? She is disrupting the other children with her constant crying. Thank You so very much.

Day/Child care center. What is needed? I am interested in owning, operating and managing a child care facility in my area. I would like to hire the care givers and make sure the children are safe and well cared for. Other than license's, insurance etc., what else is required from me in order to do this. Do I need to take a course in child care? If so, where do I start. Thanks for all answers. I am in the sunshine state. FLORIDA : )

My church desires to start a Child Development Center in our church. Can we open without a license? We need to open a child day care as soon as possible. Since it is a church child development center, do we need to be licensed before opening? Please answer as soon as possible

Child Care center for children with disabilities.? I have worked with children that are disable for a varied of reasons. I wanted to open up my own child care center for these children to give respite time for the parents. I live in Virginia about 60 miles west of Washington, DC. Of course this would be a non-profit business. Can anyone help me get started. Thank you.

Could Child care be linked to future violence in society thanks to the femi extremist revolution? Child Care Linked To Assertive, Noncompliant, and Aggressive Behaviors Vast Majority of Children Within Normal Range The more time children spent in child care from birth to age four-and-a-half, the more adults tended to rate them, both at age four-and-a-half and at kindergarten, as less likely to get along with others, as more assertive, as disobedient, and as aggressive, according to a study appearing in the July/August issue of Child Development. However, the researchers cautioned that for the vast majority of children, the levels of the behaviors reported were well within the normal range. In fact, a mother's sensitivity to her child was a better indicator of reported problem behaviors than was time in child care, with more sensitive mothering being linked to less problem behaviors. Higher maternal education and family income also predicted lower levels of children's problem behaviors.. The findings are from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. "It's important to put these findings in perspective," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. "The amount of time in child care is one of several family and child care factors linked to children's behaviors, both positive and negative." The NICHD launched the study of early child care in 1991. The 27 researchers conducting the study have been following the development of more than 1000 children from across the United States. The children were enrolled in the study at birth and come from an ethnically and economically diverse sample of families. In addition to focusing on time in child care, the current article focused on several other aspects of the child care experience: the quality of the child care arrangement, the proportion of time that the child was in a child care center, the proportion of time that the child was cared for in a group setting, and the number of times that the mother reported that the child started a new child care arrangement. In the current article, the researchers describe how child care experiences in the first four-and-a-half years of the children's lives relate to children's social competence and behavior problems, when the children were four-and-a-half years old, and later, when they reached kindergarten. The study measured children's social behavior by having mothers, child care providers and teachers complete standardized ratings of children's behavior problems and social competence-their ability to get along with children and adults and their ability to follow social rules. Information about the number of hours the children were in child care was obtained from the mothers every 3-4 months. The link between time in child care and problem behavior was greater than the link between infant temperament and problem behavior or maternal depression and problem behavior. This link between time in child care and problem behavior was also greater for children in center-based care than for children in other types of care. The study authors noted that, of the children who displayed problem behaviors, the majority were well within the normal range. A small proportion of children showed levels of problem behavior that should be monitored to see if they developed into more serious problems. The proportion of children showing these higher levels of problem behavior is commensurate with the proportion of children in the U.S. population as a whole who also display these problems. The link between time in child care and problem behavior occurred across all family backgrounds and all types and quality of care. The authors added that the time in child care during infancy did not appear to have a greater bearing on the children's behavior than did the time they spent in care after infancy. The researchers also found evidence that children who experienced better quality child care-in which caregivers provided intellectual stimulation and were warm, positive, and sensitive to child behavior-had fewer child caregiver/teacher-reported problem behaviors and conflict than did children who experienced lower quality care. The researchers noted, however, that high quality child care did not eliminate the link between hours in care and behavior problems. The researchers could find no threshold of child-care hours above which problem behaviors were especially likely to emerge. To illustrate the reported findings that were based on the information from the group as a whole, the researchers classified the children into four groups, based on the amount of time they spent in child care: 16 percent of children were in child care an average of 0-9 hours a week 38 percent for 10-29 hours 36 percent for 30-45 hours 10 percent for more than 45 hours a week. In each of these groups, a minority of the children had a high score on behavior problems. However, the percent of children with high scores increased with the increase in the number of hours children spent in child care. Children were rated by mothers and teachers on items such as: child demands a lot of attention; argues a lot; bragging and boasting; cruelty, bullying or meanness to others; destroys things belonging to others; disobedient at home; disobedient at school; gets into many fights; lying or cheating; screams a lot. One of the important findings of this study is that the strongest predictor of how well a child behaves was a feature of maternal parenting that the researchers described as sensitivity--how attuned a mother is to a child's wants and needs. The behaviors of the sensitive mother are child centered; the sensitive mother is aware of the child's needs, moods, interests, and capabilities. She allows this awareness to guide her interactions with her child. Children of more sensitive mothers were more competent socially, less likely to engage in disruptive behavior, and less likely to be involved in conflicts with their caregivers and teachers. Similarly, children whose parents had higher incomes and who were more highly educated also were more socially competent and less likely to engage in problem behaviors. The study authors noted that their study was not designed to prove a cause and effect relationship. That is, the study cannot prove whether spending more time in child care causes children to have more problem behaviors. The behavior problems the researchers documented might be due to some other characteristic of the children or of their environment. Accompanying editorials in the July/August issue of Child Development offer possible explanations. Findings previously reported from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development showed that more time in care predicted more problem behavior among two-year olds, but not among three-year olds; less sensitive maternal behavior and less harmonious mother-child interaction when children were 6-36 months of age; as well as higher rates of insecure attachment to the mother if the mother's parenting was relatively insensitive. Preliminary findings pertaining to the research questions posed and answered by the current article were presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April of 2001. In the future, the researchers plan to focus on the relation between hours spent in child care and children's behavior during the school years. ### The NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research arm of the federal government. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. NICHD publications, as well as information about the Institute, are available from the NICHD Web site, http://www.nichd.nih.gov, or from the NICHD Information Resource Center, 1-800-370-2943; e-mail NICHDInformationResourceCenter@mail.nih.gov. Child Care Linked To Assertive, Noncompliant, and Aggressive Behaviors Vast Majority of Children Within Normal Range The more time children spent in child care from birth to age four-and-a-half, the more adults tended to rate them, both at age four-and-a-half and at kindergarten, as less likely to get along with others, as more assertive, as disobedient, and as aggressive, according to a study appearing in the July/August issue of Child Development. However, the researchers cautioned that for the vast majority of children, the levels of the behaviors reported were well within the normal range. In fact, a mother's sensitivity to her child was a better indicator of reported problem behaviors than was time in child care, with more sensitive mothering being linked to less problem behaviors. Higher maternal education and family income also predicted lower levels of children's problem behaviors.. The findings are from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. "It's important to put these findings in perspective," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. "The amount of time in child care is one of several family and child care factors linked to children's behaviors, both positive and negative." The NICHD launched the study of early child care in 1991. The 27 researchers conducting the study have been following the development of more than 1000 children from across the United States. The children were enrolled in the study at birth and come from an ethnically and economically diverse sample of families. In addition to focusing on time in child care, the current article focused on several other aspects of the child care experience: the quality of the child care arrangement, the proportion of time that the child was in a child care center, the proportion of time that the child was cared for in a group setting, and the number of times that the mother reported that the child started a new child care arrangement. In the current article, the researchers describe how child care experiences in the first four-and-a-half years of the children's lives relate to children's social competence and behavior problems, when the children were four-and-a-half years old, and later, when they reached kindergarten. The study measured children's social behavior by having mothers, child care providers and teachers complete standardized ratings of children's behavior problems and social competence-their ability to get along with children and adults and their ability to follow social rules. Information about the number of hours the children were in child care was obtained from the mothers every 3-4 months. The link between time in child care and problem behavior was greater than the link between infant temperament and problem behavior or maternal depression and problem behavior. This link between time in child care and problem behavior was also greater for children in center-based care than for children in other types of care. The study authors noted that, of the children who displayed problem behaviors, the majority were well within the normal range. A small proportion of children showed levels of problem behavior that should be monitored to see if they developed into more serious problems. The proportion of children showing these higher levels of problem behavior is commensurate with the proportion of children in the U.S. population as a whole who also display these problems. The link between time in child care and problem behavior occurred across all family backgrounds and all types and quality of care. The authors added that the time in child care during infancy did not appear to have a greater bearing on the children's behavior than did the time they spent in care after infancy. The researchers also found evidence that children who experienced better quality child care-in which caregivers provided intellectual stimulation and were warm, positive, and sensitive to child behavior-had fewer child caregiver/teacher-reported problem behaviors and conflict than did children who experienced lower quality care. The researchers noted, however, that high quality child care did not eliminate the link between hours in care and behavior problems. The researchers could find no threshold of child-care hours above which problem behaviors were especially likely to emerge. To illustrate the reported findings that were based on the information from the group as a whole, the researchers classified the children into four groups, based on the amount of time they spent in child care: 16 percent of children were in child care an average of 0-9 hours a week 38 percent for 10-29 hours 36 percent for 30-45 hours 10 percent for more than 45 hours a week. In each of these groups, a minority of the children had a high score on behavior problems. However, the percent of children with high scores increased with the increase in the number of hours children spent in child care. Children were rated by mothers and teachers on items such as: child demands a lot of attention; argues a lot; bragging and boasting; cruelty, bullying or meanness to others; destroys things belonging to others; disobedient at home; disobedient at school; gets into many fights; lying or cheating; screams a lot. One of the important findings of this study is that the strongest predictor of how well a child behaves was a feature of maternal parenting that the researchers described as sensitivity--how attuned a mother is to a child's wants and needs. The behaviors of the sensitive mother are child centered; the sensitive mother is aware of the child's needs, moods, interests, and capabilities. She allows this awareness to guide her interactions with her child. Children of more sensitive mothers were more competent socially, less likely to engage in disruptive behavior, and less likely to be involved in conflicts with their caregivers and teachers. Similarly, children whose parents had higher incomes and who were more highly educated also were more socially competent and less likely to engage in problem behaviors. The study authors noted that their study was not designed to prove a cause and effect relationship. That is, the study cannot prove whether spending more time in child care causes children to have more problem behaviors. The behavior problems the researchers documented might be due to some other characteristic of the children or of their environment. Accompanying editorials in the July/August issue of Child Development offer possible explanations. Findings previously reported from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development showed that more time in care predicted more problem behavior among two-year olds, but not among three-year olds; less sensitive maternal behavior and less harmonious mother-child interaction when children were 6-36 months of age; as well as higher rates of insecure attachment to the mother if the mother's parenting was relatively insensitive. Preliminary findings pertaining to the research questions posed and answered by the current article were presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in April of 2001. In the future, the researchers plan to focus on the relation between hours spent in child care and children's behavior during the school years. ### The NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the biomedical research arm of the federal government. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. NICHD publications, as well as information about the Institute, are available from the NICHD Web site, http://www.nichd.nih.gov, or from the NICHD Information Resource Center, 1-800-370-2943; e-mail NICHDInformationResourceCenter@mail.nih.gov.

Opening a child care center in my home? Does anyone know the qualifications for doing this? I know there are certifications that need to be done and such... From your home to you... what are some things that need to be done to start this? Any and all information is greatly appreciated!!

What do you think is a good rate to charge parents for in home child care? I am going to be starting an in home child care center and I am going to provide food. I want to be affordable yet also bring in an income. What do you think is a reasonable rate? Please provide three answers regarding: 1-full time M-F 6am-6pm; 2-part time; 3- hourly. Thanx so much for your input. It really helps:)

My dream is to open a child care center in my area. But my credit score is horrible? What advice can you offer to a person in my situation? I am positive that once the center is up and running it will be a success. Is there anyway I can get started without having a perfect credit score? Mostly likely I will need a loan from the bank. Any advice would help.