How to Own and Operate Your Own Home Day Care Business Successfully Without Going Nuts! : The Day Care Survival Handbook and Guide for Aspiring Home Day Care Providers and Working Parents

This nationally acclaimed handbook and guide has shown thousands of home daycare providers how to run a business successfully, work with parents and give love to those in their care. Called the ultimate book on the most important subject facing working parents today - legal, honest and trustworthy home daycare for babies and small children, this book has over 150 pages containing information on how to build and maintain a licensed home daycare business, what agencies to contact, what forms to fill out, what licenses are needed and how to pass state inspections. You'll also learn how to promote and advertise your licensed home day care business and how to work and maintain trust, honesty and organization with the working parent and the department of children and family assistance. Our goal with this book is also to provide guidance to parents on how to select the right daycare program for their children and to know what to expect from their daycare provider.

Dr. Terri Simmons is one of the world's foremost authorities on daycare. She is the mother of five children ranging in age from 3 to 14. Fifteen years ago, Terri and her husband Michael took the necessary steps and became "licensed home daycare providers". Shortly thereafter, they opened the Carriage House, a nationally-acclaimed 24-hour licensed home daycare and business consultant center. Terri is also a lecturer, gives motivational seminars and is an instructor at several colleges, teaching courses in licensed home daycare. She has a doctorate in early childhood education.