Child Care

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You need to take a first aid course, and get certified to perform CPR

on infants, and children (two different techniques needed). You also

will want to be certified by the state if you are planning to run it as

a day care.

If you are just looking to babysit during the day for 1 or 2 kids, you

won’t need to be certified.

Infants cost more, because they require more one on one time. In big

cities, it’s not unusual to be looking at around $150 and up per week

for an infant, full time (9-10 hours).

Toddlers are slightly cheaper, with school age, potty trained children

being the cheapest.

If you plan to supply food, make sure none of the children have any

allergies. If they do, you either need to keep all the food seperate,

or require that the allergic child provide their own food.

If you plan to run a daycare, the prices per hour would be higher, but

you would charge by half day and full day incriments, not by the hour.

You could give a slight discount for a full week over what it would

cost per day if the child attended 5 days- for example, if you want to

charge $15 a day for a full day, that’s $75 for a week, so maybe if

they are a week-long child, charge $70 or $65 for the week.

If you have more than 1 child per family, consider doing a family

discount- first child full price, each additional child $5-10 off per

week, or $1-2 off per day.

Hours should start at 7 or 7:30 to allow parents the time to drop off

kids, and get to work on time. Pick up should be 5:30-6 to allow

parents time to arrive after work.

You would need medical release forms signed to allow you to get

treatment for a child if an accident does happen, as well as insurance

information, emergency numbers, etc.

If you just want to do a drop in center, you might consider starting a

child care co-op. Basically, if you have children, then parents swap

baby sitting. If you baby sit for 2 kids for 2 hours, then you have 4

hours of time where another parent baby sits for you (1 kid for 4

hours, 2 kids for 2 hours, 4 kids for 1 hour- etc).

You would need a network of parents, and you would want to have

meetings set up once a week or once a month to make sure everything is

going smoothly, though.

If you are just looking to watch kids occasionally, post signs at

laundry mats, grocery stores, etc, advertising part time “mom’s help”.

List that you are not a regular full time sitter, but would love to

baby sit for a few hours at a time here and there.

For that, I’d charge $3.00 an hour per kid, or maybe $5/hour if it’s 2

kids, $7/hr if it’s 3 kids, etc. Or a flat fee- $20 for 3 hours of

child care.

If you plan to provide meals, or clean their house while they are gone,

list it as an option for extra money.

— In Budget101_@yahoogroups.com, “Angie” wrote:

>

> I was thinking about keeping kids part time. If a mom needs (wants)

to

> go shopping for a couple of hours or get her hair done or go to the

> beach kid-less. Anyway. How much should I charge? I have know idea.

> Can some of you guys help me. I need a price by the hour, half day

and

> whole day.

>

> TIA

> Angela

>

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