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Time Management Tips For Busy Child Care Business Owners

If you get  control of your time, you will get control of your life. ~ Bob Harrison

It’s time to double your power and your personal effectiveness!

If your goal is to expand your business or to simply improve the business that you currently have, mastering your time has to be apart of you going to another level.

In fact, if you do not learn to effectively manage your time, you will easily become burn out and will be not be able to effectively mange your business.

The Top “2” Time Wasters of all:

  1. Social media
  2. Reading Email

We are living in the social media and study shows that people are spending more and more time online. However, I have found that spending too much time online can take you away from what is important.

My suggestion to you is for you to plan a certain time everyday that you dedicate to marketing your business online, reading email and for learning new information.

Furthermore, I suggest that you review my  Online marketing plan e-book to find out how you can effectively market your Business Online utilizing free social media tools. Those tools will allow you to schedule your post ahead of time and spend the rest of your time running your Business!

I want to inspire you to evaluate how you spend your time; do more of what you love or High-Pay off tasks, delegate low pay- off tasks and start taking control of your time. Most of all, start getting some results!

Here are some examples of what I define as High-Pay Off and Low-Pay Off task

High Pay-Offs

  1. Marketing your Business
  2. Planning for your Business Growth
  3. Evaluating the Daily Operations of my business
  4. Delegating task that can be done by someone else
  5. Attending Training Seminars that are related to your goals for the year
  6. People Development…Training Staff/Others
  7. Short to do list
  8. Doing High Priority task first

 

Low Pay off Items & Time Wasters

  1. Spending too much time reading email
  2. Spending more than 30 minutes scrolling through social media sites
  3. Long conversations on the phone when you could be planning, reading a business book or spending time with family
  4. Long to do list (10 or more important task a day)
  5. Subscribing to blog and websites that do not provide you with information that lines up with your goals
  6. Handling unexpected situations that occur throughout your day

To Your Success,

Shiketa

Are you struggling with Managing your Child Care Business or Your time? Contact me today to schedule a 1-hour Time/Business Management  Coaching Session!

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10 Fun and Enriching Fall Curriculum Theme Ideas!

“A Theme idea for every week in the Fall”

Are you in the process of planning your curriculum topics for the fall? Don’t know where to start? Let’s start with selecting your themes!

Having a theme based curriculum is a great way to encourage the children to really get involved in the learning activities. In fact, having a theme helps to make the planning process much easier. Moreover, Fall is approximately 12- weeks long and in this blog post, you will find a theme idea for every week of the fall season.

Moreover, I have implemented a theme based curriculum for about 11 years and I have discovered that children love to have fun while learning,  especially if there is a fun educational theme.

Before I share the following theme ideas with you, I want to share this with you……Your Curriculum theme should be visible in your learning environment and this includes the: block, reading, science, dramatic play, music sensory and manipulative areas/centers.

If your home daycare does not have centers, I suggest that you discover how to create centers in the Family Home Child Care Empowerment Club! The first week is free and introduces you to centers. Join now!

Center Owners- The themes below are a great way to enhance your curriculum theme and also provide your teachers with some new theme ideas.

Now that we have that covered that, let’s take a look at some great fall theme ideas:

1. Apples

2. My School

3. Fall

4. School bus

5.Turkeys

6. Pumpkins

7. Fire-fighters (October)

8. Thanksgiving

9. Scare crows

10. Spiders

11. Grandparents (September)

12. Owls

Here is a list of online resources for fall theme ideas:

Fall Themes on Pinterest

A-to-Z Teacher Stuff

Education Place

Here are some Fun Fall Event ideas:

  • Hold a fall open house and provide the families with fun apple related activities
  • Invite the grandparents to eat breakfast with their grandchildren
  • Go apple picking
  • Go to a Pumpkin Farm
  • Host a Thanks Giving Dinner
  • Invite the local fire fighters to come to your home or facility to talk to the kids about fire safety
  • Give-away candy on Halloween

Heart-to- Heart Child Care Shares…..the following Fall activity ideas:

  • Apple stamps
  • Leaf rubbing
  • Nature walks!

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With Your Curriculum in Mind,

Shiketa

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