Celebrating 16 Years of Inspiring and Empowering Child Care Business Owners

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The Child Care Business Owner Institute Celebrates 16 Years Online!

Sixteen years ago this month, I felt inspired to begin blogging about the business of childcare. At the time, my only goal was to share what I had learned in the industry. When I launched the Child Care Business Owner blog, I had been directing my first childcare center for just over seven years and was still growing as a leader.

As I developed in my leadership role, I became motivated to teach other childcare business owners the lessons I had learned and applied in my own business. Writing this blog has been an honor because it has allowed me to inspire and mentor thousands of childcare business owners around the world.

Along the way, my childcare business has expanded several times since 2014 and even relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. Needless to say, I have had plenty to write about, including:

  • Quality Care Strategies
  • Marketing/ Enrollment building
  • Staff management
  • Expansion/ Managing Multiple locations
  • Money Management
  • Center Management
  • And so much more

It has been a pleasure to share what I have learned through this blog over the past 16 years and to inspire childcare business owners through my books, coaching, courses, and blog posts. Thank you for subscribing to the Child Care Business Owner Institute. I pray your business continues to navigate the industry’s changes with strength and resilience.

Most of all, I pray that if you are still in this work, you continue to evolve and take your business to new heights, because the best is yet to come for the childcare industry.

The books and digital products listed below have been my most downloaded resources. If you do not already have them in your library, download or order your copies today.

Giving Birth to your Dream

The Business of Child Care

7 Keys to Successfully Operating Multiple Locations

Child Care Business Expansion Guide

Director Handbook

The Art of Owning a Child Care Center ( Audio Coaching Series)

Marketing 101 Toolkit


Here’s to building successful and quality childcare businesses!

Dr. Shiketa Morgan

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Do you have a dream of opening or expanding a childcare business? If so, subscribe to my blog and then leave a comment below about your vision to grow. If you are selected, I will contact you to schedule a coaching session during the month of August 2026.

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Year End Tax Tips For Child Care Providers

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Can you believe that we are already in the last week of the month of November? This year has gone by so fast and I can hardly believe that the month of December is less than 7-days away.

At this time of the year, I can’t help but to think about how to get ready for a new business year. In fact, I just finished printing my profit and loss report for the month of November and I created my budget for the month of December. As I prepared my new budget, I thought about what I needed to do to get ready for my 2025 taxes.

Also, before we close the center for our Christmas break at the end of December, I will start preparing expense folders for 2026. Don’t get me wrong, I look forward to lots of holiday cheer, however, I find that this is a good time to get prepared for a new tax season.

Today I am going to share with you five things that I do at the end of each year to get ready and organized for the next tax season:

  1. Be sure that you have entered all your business expenses into a financial software. This will make it easier for you to print an annual profit and loss report.
  2. Enter all of your income into a financial software to be sure that all of your income is accounted for. I use Procare to track income that I receive from parents, and I use Bookkeeper to enter food program income and other streams of income for my center.
  3. I file receipts in folders that are marked with the name of each business expense and the current business year.
  4. Be sure to keep all payroll reports in a 3-ring binder to be sure that you have accurate payroll totals for the year. I use Paychex Payroll services, and I love that I receive payroll reports with each payroll service. Payroll can be close to 50% of your business expenses and you definitely want to account for all payroll expenses.
  5. If you are planning to have holiday parties or events, be sure to enter the expenses into your financial software program. Staff Christmas parties, gifts that you buy for your staff, students and parents are all tax deductible. Be sure to save those receipts.

This was just a small list of things that I do at the end of the year to get ready for the upcoming tax season and it has been helping me to get organized for the upcoming tax season.

Happy Holidays to you and Continued Success to you!

Dr. Shiketa Morgan

New Book Coming Soon!

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