Do you ever question what you want to be doing for a living? Currently I have two careers I am interested in working in a daycare facility and owning my own in-home daycare. Before deciding between the two there is a few things I had to consider such as the pay, the hours, and investment needed. When working in a daycare facility your pay can range from $7.50-$11.21 making the median hourly salary $8.70. When owning a daycare there is no set salary your salary goes based on your customers unless your customers are willing to pay the price you set then your business can go either way. Next I would consider the hours, when working in a facility your hours are likely to go based on when you are needed as opposed to if I had my own daycare I …show more content…
Where as a facility has set hours that they are open in the week so you are guaranteed to get your hours in. If I were to own a daycare there is no telling how many hours I would work a week since I would not be setting my own hours. Lastly I looked at the investment I would have to make in order to work in a facility or own my own daycare. If I were to work at a facility the expenses are already set up so I would not have to make my own investments. As for owning my own daycare I could end up making an investment from as little as $500-$100,000. The cost of starting an in-home daycare goes based on how much remodeling is needed. There is a lot of equipment I would want to have in my daycare such as: toys, nap mats, bedding, playpens/cribs, art and craft supplies, first aid kit, child size furniture, and so much more. The equipment needed for a daycare can get expensive.I would not want to invest so much money into an in-home daycare that I have no guarantee that business will be good, or what my hours will be, or how much I would be
In fact, recent studies have shown that the cost of daycare in some states has exceeded the average tuition and fees of a public college. The cost per week per child is at its all-time high for childcare and that it’s making it hard for parents. Paying $100-$350 a week for childcare sounds outrageous. The cost of having an infant child in most states is higher than having a 6 year old. Most childcare facilities charge families by the kids’ ages, the younger the child, the higher the cost. Honestly, daycare facilities are making a killing because people are having babies that need care, but they have to go back to work to support their family. Some parents are concerned about their kids spending so much time in daycare “on average, children spend over 35 hours a week in child care (Aguliar).” People may argue that 35 hours a week is too long for a child to be in care, but honestly it isn’t, as long as the kids are all
It is becoming more common for corporations to provide daycare facilities as a fringe benefit for their employees. What has evaluative research found regarding the costs and benefits of these facilities?
This business plan will explain the opportunity and the business case for starting and operating our new independent day care facility, and details the need for $75,000 in investment capital in order to properly fund the operations and provide an attractive return to investors.
On-Site daycares would also be more time efficient for employees as they and their children will be going to one destination, opposed to travelling a further distance to drop of their kids before arriving at work. Dually this also compliments time effectiveness because employees can work later hours without the inconvenience of having to leave early to retrieve their child from a further daycare facility. In cases such as illness for the child, it also saves time for the company and the worker for the employee to be able to take their child from work to a hospital or other destination without the extra travelling.
Life is crazy and unpredictable, in 10 years I would love to see myself owning my own daycare. Opening up my own daycare has always been a dream of mine. I will be married to who I am engaged to now, my fiancé Alexander Wiertzema and I hope we have at least three children. With having this many children, I plan on being a stay-at-home mother and owning my own daycare business. We will buy at building in downtown Little Rock, Iowa and name the daycare center Teyha’s Tots. I would love for my daycare business to grow and have people work under me. There is only one other daycare center in Little Rock, so I know I won’t have much competition, there is a high demand for daycare in that town.
Daycare has become a controversy because of the great quantity of advantages and disadvantages that it involves. While a very large number of parents have to rely on child care centers because of career ambitions or financial needs that only their jobs can fulfill, most child psychiatrists believe that the ideal growing environment for an infant is at home with the family. The problem is that choosing the right caregiver, a good substitute for the parents, is very hard, and the consequences of a wrong decision can be very detrimental to the child’s personality development. This choice depends on many factors like culture, education and especially income. In fact, the financial availability plays the most
Finding someone to take care of your child during the day can be a tough decision, and you will most likely be deciding between a daycare center and home daycare. Are you aware of what the major differences are between these two options? By understanding the differences, you can decide which one is best for your child’s needs.
Becoming childcare professional requires engaging in the profession after acquiring specialized skills and knowledge to provide quality care to all children. A professional is a person who continues to perceive educational qualification to complement themselves. Some of the important skills that form the foundation of childcare professional are how we connect with others, communication as key to developing a relationship and advocacy qualities. To become proficient childcare professional a person confronts many
Todays’ fast paced life style and the need for both parents to work to make ends meet seems to have created the daycare dilemma. The reality is that parenting - the most important job a woman can have - is not valued enough. No one should ever feel like she is "only a mom" – but should be more highly valued than any other profession. No job is as important; no job has the possibilities for improving our world by raising up the capacity to love and trust others. According to Canadian psychiatrist Elliott Barker, "We have to change a lot of established patterns or ways we do things - our priorities - so that nothing gets in the way of attachment in the earliest years. The capacities for trust, empathy, and affection are in fact the central core of what it means to be human, and are indispensable for adults to be able to form lasting, mutually satisfying co-operative relationships with others." Our culture belittles motherhood and encourages the mother to leave her children and go to a job. If mothers’ felt the importance of being a mother and society wasn’t pushing for them to work, many would stay at home with their children. Some evidence shows children benefit if their mothers stay home with them until they are one year, the welfare law does allow states to exempt new mothers from work requirements for a year. So far, states do not seem to be taking advantage of the provision set apart for this program. In Wisconsin, a leader in welfare reform, mothers are required to start looking for work when their child is 12 weeks old. Those in favor of these reforms say a mother who has a job will be a more responsible parent, and some studies suggest that children do benefit if their mother receives earned income rather than a government check for the same amount. If mothers are out working, however, the quality of child care provided by others will largely determine how the children fare under the states' new plans. Many mothers will rely on relatives and friends, some will be loving and attentive and some will not. Also, the strain on the daycare system is a matter of serious concern to child-development and childcare experts. A recent study found that 40% of daycare centers for infants and toddlers gave less than
Weather you choice to child care or home care Ashburn Patch article on Child care Center vs. Home-Based Family child Care by Evgeniya (Jen) Usmanova, did a great job of listing the pros and cons of child care and the pros and cons of home care. Some typically things that would be seen in a home care environment are normally they consist of 1-4 caregiver. They are also alt smaller and have home like environment if not down at you own house. If it consist of a group of children it is normally around 3-12 children. There are times when these children can be of different age groups. Some of these things can be an advantage or a disadvantages. One advantage is having the home like environment or the child
There are several important differences between the family home childcare and the center childcare. One difference in the family home childcare verses the center childcare is the individual attention each child receives. Another difference is the curriculum made available in each facility. Moreover, the cost for services rendered in a family home childcare is much lower than a center childcare. In addition, prior knowledge of cost, teacher-child ratio, and curriculum will help make the selection an easier task. Therefore, this paper will identify the three most significant differences between family childcare and center childcare in the areas of personal care, curriculum, and cost.
UMUC offers numerous courses in Psychology so as to provide students with the knowledge that they will need in order to be successful in their future careers. The curriculum offered ensures that students acquire a knowledge base of theory, research, and practice in psychological sciences. Although some of the courses offered are required in order to obtain an undergraduate degree in Psychology, many are available to choose from that meet the interests and needs of each student as well. Upon graduation I plan to search for a job as a Childcare Director. Fortunately, the classes in psychology that I have completed have given me the knowledge and critical thinking skills that I need to be successful as well as given me a deeper understanding of how children develop and learn. The psychology courses that I have taken are:
Childcare Development I want to work in Christian daycare. I want to learn how to run a Christian daycare, so that one day soon I can open my own. I want to work with small children ages one to four years old. My passion is caring for small children and I would like to be a teacher.
When discussing the costs of daycares, a parent must consider preschool programs and traditional daycares. Most preschool fees are comparable to the high prices charges by daycare centers, although few preschool cost as much as full day care for an infant. All of this depends on where you live and the quality of the preschool. The average costs range from $4,056 to$ 11,678 per year, according to the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. Traditional day care centers can be less what you would pay for a nanny but still can add up. It also depends on where you live and the quality of the daycare. Most centers bill monthly, even though some will give you a discount if you agree to pay the entire year’s fee in the first month.
Parent will pay a total of $200 a week for daycare. According to the National Association of Child Care Resources & Referral Agencies the average daycare cost is the United States is $972 a month. Employees will pay a lower cost than the national average.