Welcome to the forum MommyLisa. I'm in Ontario and not registered, just a self-employed woman who has built a successful business on her own. But with a lot of help from a few wonderful caregiver friends. You need mentors and people to lean on when you have questions, issues and concern. That's why we are here so ask away.

The most important thing I learned over the first few years of business was to prescreen and screen like a maniac during interviews so that I only accepted great families into care. In my first year I took in families that I shouldn't have and I learned a lot of lessons the hard way.

I also learned that you need to have a great contract and business policies and stick to them. You make the rules and you run the daycare and if you do all of that the right way you will attract the right kind of clients who match your parenting philosophies and morals and standards and you will be happier than you ever were working for somebody else. Or is that just me?

Oh yes, and a website is invaluable.