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Quality Child Care Begins With You…

Because Kids Deserve Quality Child Care…

When my childcare center received its first Accreditation back in 2006, I thought about how much work it took to get accredited. In fact, I held weekly quality care meetings with my staff, I met with lead teachers one on one, created parent surveys, and conducted on on-site assessments.

Yes, I became a Coach in my very own childcare facility. However, I must be quite honest with you and say this, there were time when I did not feel like assessing the quality of care in my program; sometimes I didn’t feel like holding another staff meeting and quite frankly I came to the conclusion that, if I was going to build a Quality Child Care Business; I must plan for it whether I felt like it or not!

In fact, my #1 mission in my childcare business and for this blog is to provide and promote quality childcare. Furthermore, I believe that you are also determined to build a quality childcare business!

I am writing this blog post today, to inspire you to create a quality care plan for your center. If you don’t know where to start, start by subscribing to my 7 steps to quality care eCourse.

Also, the Quality Child Care Center eClub will be available soon. This eClub will provide Child Care Center Owners with the latest Quality Care tips for their childcare business.

I know that this eclub is needed, because I get childcare news alerts about daycare violations everyday and this tells me that we need to improve the quality of childcare in our home day cares and childcare centers.

I am passionate about quality care because I know it makes a difference. In fact, it made a difference in my family home childcare business and in my center. Moreover, the quality of care that I provided caused me to stand out from other facilities and it will do the same for you!

Furthermore, quality childcare practices provides you with high standards to implement in your program. Also, parents are more knowledgeable than ever about how to choose quality childcare and they know quality when they see it.

Check out the Quality Care Checklist that Child Care Aware issues to parents who are looking for childcare, click here.

If you are as passionate as I am about quality childcare, I hope that you share this blog post on your social media page and leave your comments below about how you plan to improve the quality of care in your program.

Change begins with you!

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Shiketa

How to Create a More Relaxing Environment At Naptime

Shhhh….It’s Naptime

A perfect nap time happens when all the children get on their cots or lay in their cribs and fall to sleep right away. If that happens for you everyday..then this post is not for you. However, if you have restless kids that have trouble falling to sleep, this post is for you.

Over the years I have discovered that some children can fall to sleep as soon as their heads hit the cots and some kids have difficulty relaxing at nap time. There are three things that we do at my childcare facility to help children sleep and create a more relaxing Environment at Naptime:

1. Turn on some classical or spa like music 20-30 minutes before the children get on their cots or before you place infant/toddlers in their cribs. Music really helps to relax their minds.

2. Plan to have some back running time. I have found that rubbing each child’s back for at least 5-minutes helps the children fall off to sleep very easily. Some kids may not need a back rub. In fact, if you or a caregiver take the time to just sit quietly next to the children; they will fall off to sleep on their own.

3. Add some lavender fragrance to the room. Lavender naturally helps to calm the mind and the body. You will find lavender essential oils at the local whole foods store for less than 10 dollars. Simply add 10-20 drops of  lavender oil to a spray bottle filled with water and spray into the air. ***Ahhh…..Now you have created a more peaceful and relaxing nap time.

Be sure to let me know what you think about the tips in this blog post.

With Your Business in mind….

Shiketa

 

 

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