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Men Can Make Great Child Care Business Owners Too!

The first childcare center that my son attended was owned by a man. In fact, the Owner was very active in his facility and I was quite comfortable with him.

Moreover, he was very nurturing with all the kids and the parents seemed to really connect with him. However, I could not help but to notice that his staff was predominantly made up of women and this caused me to wonder why there are so few men working in childcare.

In 2000, My uncle decided to care for children in him and my aunts home and offered to babysit my daughter Chasity; while I operated my home daycare. I was excited that he offered to babysit her. In fact, he was more than a baby sitter, he completed his CDA Credential, we attended childcare classes together and I gained lots of insight from him on how to be more understanding with my toddlers.

My husband is a co-owner of my center and he loves to stop by the center to give the children high fives. Moreover, he provides me with great business advice and the kids usually see him working around the building. Also, the kids do not hesitate to point out any broken items around the building, because they know that he does all the building maintenance.

According to Men in Child Care Network of Ireland, Children grow up in a society that is focusing more than ever on equality issues. However, many of the children in Childcare are left in a situation where they have no contact with men between 8 am and 5 pm. In fact, The Child Care Network  Ireland believes that there are many benefits to children working around men and they are as follows:

  •  Children benefit because men bring new ideas and ways of working into childcare.
  • Fathers benefit because they have someone to relate to and may feel more at home.
  • Staff benefit because more gender balanced staff
  • Teams gives different ways of looking at issues facilitating different approaches
  •  Having men working in childcare shows children that manliness can include caring

Do you have men on your staff?Do you know of any men that own their very own childcare businesses? If so, what are your thoughts about their childcare program?

Be sure to check out my eNewsletter: The Missing Element in Child Care!

With men in childcare in mind,

Shiketa Morgan

Source article: http://www.childcareonline.ie/files/1237391358.pdf

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Child Care Center, daycare, Men in Child Care, Staffing

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This is Your Opportunity To Co-Author an eBook For Child Care Business Owners

I want to share an opportunity with you to co-author an e-book that will inspire and empower other Child Care Business owners. Andrea Dickerson (Founder of the I Own a Daycare Network and Owner of Akeba Academy) has invited you and I to co-author this e-book with her!

What is the e-book about?

The concept of the e-book is to have you submit 50-500 words of wisdom, areas in your childcare business that you wish were better,  funny stories about you or your daycare children, lessons you have learned the hard way and what you want others to avoid, Andrea also wants you to talk about the income that you have earned, why you started your childcare business, encouraging poems, menu suggestions, arts and crafts ideas you recommend, business marketing ideas, ways you have learned to work with difficult parents, professional growth and development and so forth.

If you should have something that you would like to share that has not been listed, please feel free to do so!  You are free to write on one subject or on them all!

By providing your input you and other childcare business owners all over the world can coach other inspiring childcare business owners to step out on faith and go for their dreams!

How to Submit your Article for the e-book

  • Please provide your first and last name
  • the name of your business
  • your city and state, a photo of yourself
  • pictures of your childcare space
  • the title of your article in the email subject line
  • Submit your article to Andrea Dickerson by June 8, 2012 via email: dickersa2003@yahoo.com

With Inspiring other Child Care Business Owners in mind!

Shiketa

 

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