Family Child Care Essentials Set

Whether you're just starting your family child care business or you are looking for resources to improve how you get things done, this is a great collection of materials for you. Learn the best ways to keep your records, interact with parents regarding contracts and policies, learn how to set up your space, and the essentials to keep your business and children safe.

Save over $40 when you order these resources together.

Family Child Care Mileage-Keeper

Now, keeping track of business mileage is a snap. This mileage-log includes plenty of space for recording repairs, tolls, parking, and more. It includes enough pages for one year of records. You can easily carry it in your glove compartment or your clothes pocket.

48 pages

Business Receipt Book

Improve your record keeping with receipts designed specifically for family child care (daycare) providers.

Each order comes with three booklets, with 50 receipts per book (150 receipts total). Each receipt has a carbonless duplicate.

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

Family Child Care Homes

Discover the many ways your home can provide comfortable places where children love to learn and love to be. Filled with no- and low-cost ideas, this book demonstrates many unique and practical possibilities for your home's indoor and outdoor spaces. Chapters are packed with full-color photographs and provide examples and tips for designing learning zones, selecting items, organizing materials, and more. Checklists, resources, and questions are included to help you evaluate your setting, implement changes, and create a place that feels like a second home to the children in your care.

216 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

Developmental Milestones Quick Guide

Understand the important indicators of development in children in five developmental domains: Physcial/motor, social/emotional, language, cognitive, and the recently added approaches to learning.

Developmental Milestones of Young Children will help you:

• Observe and document children’s progress with proper technique
• Develop partnerships and communication with families
• Understand the most up-to-date developmental indicators

This handbook is not meant to be a diagnostic tool for children with developmental delays. Instead, it serves as a guide to the benchmarks of typical development for each age and stage that almost all children go through.

Maintain good documentation with the Developmental Milestones Observational Record, a tool that can be used with this book to add consistency and validity to children’s records. The Observational Record can be downloaded in the Web Components tab.

88 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

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.

Disaster Planning and Preparedness Guide, Revised

Let's hope you never face a natural or manmade disaster at your early childhood or school-age setting, but if it should happen, have a plan and be prepared to carry it out. Nothing is more important than the safety of children. That's why this fully revised and updated Quick Guide is an important addition to your professional library. Use it to create a personalized plan for each of the disaster scenarios covered in the book:

• evacuation
• bomb threat
• need to take shelter
• lockdown
• extended shelter
• transportation emergencies
• active shooter

The guide also includes information on disaster recovery and how to get your program up and running again after an emergency event. This up-to-date information has been checked for accuracy according to national guidelines and recommendations by authorities on disaster planning and preparedness. Don't be caught off guard—use this book to help you be prepared for the unexpected.

112 pages