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Why Aimee Chose the CCBO Curriculum Club?

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On July 31, 2013, I launched the Child Care Business Owner Curriculum Club and many Child Care Business Owners have already downloaded their free lessons and joined the club as a paid subscriber to receive their September Lesson Plans.

In fact, I launched the club for many reasons including:

  • I love writing lesson plans
  • I know that lesson planning takes time and I want to provide child care providers with pre-planned lessons, so they can focus on running their business
  • I want to offer providers affordable curriculum materials that will assure a fun and enriching day for young children!

Moreover, as I write this blog post, I am so excited to share a recent testimonial from one of my blog followers and a new member of the Curriculum club.

“Well I was paying $80 for 2 months of curriculum for 1 child! That ends up being $40 a month. I thought it was going to be great because I comes already packaged with crafts a curriculum. guide and learning tools such as flash cards and photo prompts, newsletter, etc.

Then, when the kit arrived I was so disappointed! It covers language, cognitive, social emotional and physical development (with an art craft) -but you only get 1 or two activities a day. For us that’s NOT going to work -especially at that price!

Then what really turned me on to what you’re doing is even though I will be printing more, the cost of the printing ink, paper, supplies plus the subscription price of the club makes it HALF the price of the boxed curriculum AND I can teach as many children with the lessons as I want.

So to sum it up -Your curriculum offers activities in all of the developmental areas EVERYDAY (not just a couple), even with printing and supplies it is 1/2 the price of the commercially boxed kits and offers many printable extras they do not. Lastly, a provider does not have to pay extra to teach the lessons to more children; once the curriculum is purchased, you can teach any size group!

Thanks so much! I’m glad you are a part of my preschool and look forward to teaching from the lesson plans you’ve prepared.”

~Aimee Nester

Wow!!!! After reading Aimee’s feedback about the packaged curriculum plan that she purchased (before trying the CCBO Curriculum Club), it reminded of me of why I created my curriculum club:

  • Its Affordable!!
  • Its filled with activities that children love
  • Its Simple and easy to use!!
  • Its Saves you money!!!
  • It empowers you to provide children with a quality experience….

Thank you Aimee for sharing!  Join Aimee and many other Child Care providers in the CCBO Curriculum Club by, clicking here.
Shiketa

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Classrooms, Curriculum

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How to Effectively Report Accidents/Injuries To Parents

Accidents & Injuries occur on a daily basis in Child Care programs. Moreover,  it is vital that you develop a system that defines who, how and when accidents &  injuries are to be reported to parents.

In fact, parents want to know when their children are injured; and when you communicate injuries to parents; they seem to appreciate the fact that you were open and honest with them.

However, if you fail to report injuries to parents; this could lead to parents being skeptical of you and your program. I would like to share Kim’s story with you.

A week before I wrote this post, one of my former high school classmates, called me about an injury that occurred at her child’s daycare. Kim was very upset that she was not notified until 2 days after the incident occurred and she also discovered that her child was questioned by state officials about the injury.

It was obvious to me that Kim knew the program did not handle the reporting of the injury professionally and she simply wanted some advice. As I consulted her, I considered the following two issues:

  1. The parent was not notified that her child had caused harm to another child 2-days after the incident
  2. This incident has affected how Kim feels about her child’s Child Care program.
  3. Kim was also concerned about staff to child ratio in the classroom at the time of the incident

After listening to Kim’s complaint about the Child Care Program; I was inspired to share Kim’s story with you, to inspire you to think about How you report injuries to parents.

Also I thought I would share helpful tips with you on How to Effectively Report Accidents/Injuries to parents:

  1. Assess all injuries and administer First Aid if needed
  2. Document all injuries right away
  3. Find out why the incident happened and what you can do to prevent the incident from occurring again
  4. Notify the parent right away; if a head injury, bleeding, bruising or fracture occurred. If the injury is minor, be sure to call the parent before pick-up time; so that you are not approaching parents with bad news at pick-up time.
  5. Require that the parent & staff member sign the incident report and be sure to give the parent a copy.

What do you think about Kim’s story? Also, feel free to share your procedures for reporting injuries to parents.

Shiketa

 

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Health/Safety, parent communication

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