Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 9/8/2004 1:30:00 PM Author: Melinda (IChooseJoy@forrunner.org) Subject: starting a center WOW! I thought I was the only one living this life currently. My husband and I have been in education 20+ years and decided last fall that it was time to "do it right and for the right reasons". We have another couple wwho partners with us financially but the center is entirely ours to make work. We bought an existing property here in central Pennsylvania with a fairly successful daycare business already operating in it and had little to do to bring it up to code for the state licensing worker to approve our license. We hired a staff of 5 not including my husband and me. We thought we could keep the children who were already attending there but that didn't happen. (LONG story) We had to start form scratch. Advertising, liability insurance, and salaries are an overwhelming expense as we start up. My husband opens the center (he is the director) at 6:30 and stays until 6:00 at least. I arrive by 8 and try to leave by 5. The hours are long, the pay is non-existent, but like many of you reading this, I would choose nothing else in my life. Someday it'll pay for itself. What keeps me going is knowing that I am providing the best and appropriate and nuturing program I can and the parents in this community will help me to fill to capicity. (70 infants - 5 year olds) Name: Email: Subject

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