Do i need any courses to open my day care?

[playfelt]

Hi Lollipop I also live in Orleans. In Ontario you have two options when opening your daycare. You can be private and care for 5 children under the age of 10 plus your own children. Or you can contract with an agency that help place children in your home and provide guidelines for your home. A good option if you wish to be private is to join the Child Care Providers Resource Network and attend one of their start up sessions where they will go over all the things needed to get started including making a contract, etc. You can see their website here: www.ccprn.com

When you are private there really aren't a lot of rules you need to follow. You will need to create your own paperwork to use with the families in care. It is nice to be able to set your own rules for sure but yes it does make it a lot harder to know what to do to get started.

Think about a child's normal day - snack time, lunch, naptime, outside play, quiet play, dressup, arts and crafts, etc. and then plan how you are going to handle each of those things in the way you set up your home. Think about things like where will the children hang their coats, keep their extra sets of clothes or diapers, what kind of meals you will be serving and the gather the things you will need to do that.

By the way I live near in the Fallingbrook area near St. Peter's High School.

[Lollipop]

Thanks for all the info
I red, on a ontario gouv. Web site, that the 5 kids included mine if they are under 6 yrs old. Is it right, because I red a lot of different version...? Thanks

[JessicaBogo]

Do you know if there is resource in the GTA like the ccprn? Or would you know of anybody who could assist me in finding that info?