Family Child Care Business Essentials Set

Save more than $35 when you buy the set of seven essential tools
These are the resources providers have trusted for decades to help them start and maintain their in-home child care business. See descriptions for each resource below.

Protecting Your Family Child Care Business

Respected family child care consultant Sharon Woodward brings years of regulation and policy experience to help you protect your family child care business.

• Learn proactive strategies to prevent citations, allegations, and infractions, make home visits go smoothly, and ensure you understand the regulations and policies that apply to your program.
• Understand your rights and know what to do if you are under investigation.
• Discover ideas to help you build an enrollment or rebuild your enrollment and reputation following an investigation or closure.

Age Focus: 0–8. Softbound, 144 pages.

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies 4th Edition

The fourth edition of the business classic Family Child Care Contract and Policies offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date tools for family child care needs to establish and enforce contracts and policies and to demonstrate provider professionalism. Sample and customizable contracts and policy handbooks available online with book purchase, and replaces previous edition’s CD-ROM.

Family Child Care Contracts & Policies, Fourth Edition will help providers better communicate with parents and reduce conflicts.

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies explains:

• How to establish good business relationships with parents
• What to look for before signing contracts with parents
• The vital information to include in contracts and policies
• How to prevent conflicts with parents
• When and how to end a contract

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies offers expanded and updated information on:

• Handling rates, late payments, and other fees in your contract
• Resolving disputes with clients
• Enforcing your contract
• Writing comprehensive policies
• Terminating a contract

184 pages

Family Child Care Record Keeping Guide, 9th Edition

Operating a family child care program can be both difficult and rewarding. Few people give as much of themselves or accept more responsibility than you do as a family child care provider. And few are more deserving of the satisfaction that comes from helping children learn and grow. However, there are other challenges that are equally important—taking care of your business by tracking your expenses, doing your taxes, and meeting government requirements.

This resource covers everything you need to keep accurate business records and save money on your taxes. If you pay close attention to the recommendations in this book, you will be able to claim the maximum allowable deductions and pay the lowest possible federal taxes.

This latest edition of Family Child Care Record-Keeping Guide includes descriptions of two new IRS depreciation rules that make it much easier to deduct items you previously had to depreciate. It also explains why you should avoid using a new Simplified Method to claim house expenses that benefits other home-based businesses, but not family child care providers. New clarifications on bartering, claiming hours as part of the Time-Space percentage, non-deductible expenses, bundled utility expenses, travel expenses, gifts, conducting a household inventory, business meals, and red flags are provided, as well as new links to outside resources where the latest tax information can be accessed. The information in this book applies to child care providers in every state, regardless of local regulations.

216 pages

Family Child Care Marketing Guide 2nd Edition

Whether you are just starting out or have an established business, this resource provides the best marketing strategies for promoting your program and filling it to capacity—even during tough economic times. This second edition of Family Child Care Marketing Guide includes information to help you

• Identify and communicate the benefits of your program to prospective, current, and former clients
• Market your business using low-cost promotions, the Internet, and social media
• Network with professional organization and agencies
• Determine what rates you should charge
• Resolve common marketing issues and evaluate your marketing plan

This guide also contains checklists, worksheets, and forms to complement your marketing plan.

216 pages

Family Child Care Business Planning Guide

A business plan is a comprehensive blueprint for how you will run your family child care business. This guide outlines each step for writing your own and explains how to use it to manage your business more effectively, whether you are just starting out or have an established operation.

You will find information on the considerations that you should weigh before you decide to become a family child care provider; how to write a start-up plan; how to create a first-year budget and estimate your first-year business income and expenses; and how to use your annual budget as a tool to help communicate with your clients and manage your business more effectively.

96 pages

Family Child Care Money Management & Retirement Guide

There are a multitude of financial decisions that must be made when running a family child care business. This resource offers valuable advice—whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned child care provider—to learn how to worry less about monetary details so that you can keep your focus on the children.

You will find information on ways to reduce your expenses, earn more money, and pay off your debt; how to handle special financial situations such as applying for a loan or grant; what you need to know about the basic principles of retirement planning; the five fundamental rules of investing and how to balance and diversify your investment portfolio; and information on the rules and benefits of the six major individual retirement account (IRA) plans.

Family Child Care Legal & Insurance Guide

The Family Child Care Legal and Insurance Guide takes the intimidation out of running a family child care business by helping you with legal and insurance planning. From researching and purchasing insurance to protecting against lawsuits, family child care expert Tom Copeland details the many practical ways you can maximize your knowledge about the safeguards needed to ensure the health and prosperity of your business.

Major chapters cover basic strategies for reducing your risks and researching, understanding, and purchasing insurance for your business and your family, including health, disability, and life policies. Other important topics discussed include:

• managing specific risks such as preventing child abuse and neglect, caring for sick and injured children, and complying with ADA requirements
• handling legal issues such as custody disputes between parents, privacy and confidentiality, and housing restrictions
• finding and using a lawyer

Includes a list of organizations and resources that help you research your options, as well as a sample transportation policy and business liability insurance checklist. An ideal resource for both beginning and experienced providers.

Read a sample chapter of this book!

224 pages

Family Child Care Inventory-Keeper

This easy-to-use log enables you to track furniture, appliances, and other property you use in your business. Once identified, these items can be depreciated as a business expense and stored with photographs for insurance purposes.

64 pages