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What is a Successful Child Care Provider?

Business/ Professionalism

  1. Providers who think of their day care as a business and perform as a professional.
  2. Follow the rules of the state and county.
  3. Shows an interest in the field with ongoing training and reading.
  4. Providers, who through their actions and speech show positive images of the day care field.
  5. Provider who keeps a good tax records for an accountant to prepare or doing the bookkeeping himself or herself.
  6. To keep good log records to inform parents, and to document day care activities.
  7. Providers who feel good talking about their profession, will encourage others to become day care providers.
  8. Runs their day care with contracts, policies, gives their day care a name, has a business name on their checks and receipts.
  9. Shows pride and respect of our profession.
  10. Show support for other providers.
  11. By expression and action, show how you feel about children.
  12. Carry liability Insurance.
  13. Never show comparisons from one child to another.
  14. Be honest and own up to mistakes if made.
  15. Respect parents privacy.
  16. Goes out you way to help parents out and makes the parents feel good about them selves and their parenting skills.
  17. Provider needs to have a smile when greeting the child.
  18. Give unconditional love.
  19. Home and day care is set up so little ones can explore safely.
  20. Getting down to the child’s level to greet them.
  21. To help with training programs for students of our future day care providers and teachers.
  22. I like to follow a routine or schedule for the children and parents.
  23. You arrange your day care so you can observe the area all of the time.
  24. I like to set long-term goals for my business.

Children

  1. They are our future.
  2. Parents are intrusting this special gift in our hand to protect.
  3. There aren’t any bad children; just sometimes they make wrong choices.
  4. We are influencing who they are and giving them choices.
  5. Allowing them to develop at their own speed.
  6. Teach them skills to enter kindergarten with confidence and high self-esteem.
  7. Allow them to explore, question, touch, taste, and try on their own, new activities in your care.
  8. Show each child how special they are.
  9. Teach how to give unconditional love to each child through our actions and words.
  10. Be there to support them through rough times with a hug or smile.
  11. Find the good in every child.
  12. Child needs to feel secure to grow the confidence necessary to try new things.
  13. You have to earn their trust.
  14. Children need to know that even in a day care setting you will make special time for each one because they are important.
  15. When you get a child who is very angry, don’t give up. Listen and try to figure out where the anger is coming from and don’t take the anger personality.
  16. Help the child develop good self-esteem.
  17. Shy children needs our support and reassurance and not get forced into things.
  18. Children need a sense of competence.
  19. Loved by receiving lots hugs and smiles and praise.
  20. Children need to be challenged.
    1. If activities are to easy the child will loose interest and will become bored.  
    2. If activities are too difficult they will become frustrated, making them feel inadequacy.

Parents 

  1. Clients.
  2. They are the set of parents that you will work as a team with to show consistency to a child.
  3. Clients sometimes become lifelong friends.
  4. Parents come with many different views and backgrounds.
  5. As a provider we need to listen to the parents and try honor their wishes.  If we can’t we need to compromise on issues and find some common ground.
  6. Are the final decision makers on matters with their child only.
  7. Can be very demanding, need to stand your ground on issues, and pick your battles.
  8. Two kinds of parents: one that trusts and respects you, the other always second-guesses everything you do.
  9. Can be forgetful.
  10. Some times parents don’t think you can handle the size group you have, because they couldn’t, so you have to show them you can.
  11. Need to be dependable and reliable.

Self-Love

  1. Confidence in your profession.
  2. Take pride in your program you offer.
  3. Take personal time off.
  4. Do things you enjoy away from day care time.
  5. Being honest.
  6. Believing in your faith.
  7. Setting goals for your self.
  8. Being grateful for a loving supportive husband and family in everything I do.
  9. Community service, volunteering for crisis nursery, respite care services, church day care, and helping day care families with vacations breaks, hospital stays, or when a loved one dies.
  10. Love your work, and be proud of it.
  11. Like to set long term goals for my self and business, and how it will affect my family.
  12. I need to be prepared for what I’m doing.
  13. Watch for opportunities for education to learn more about the child care field.
  14. Try to take care of my self.
  15. Seek feedback from parents and children on likes and dislikes.