Posted by newbie on 11/11/08

Hi. My husband and I have decided to open a home day care
and have started our area's classes for being licensed. I
have many years experience in early childhood ed. I was
wondering for those of you who have more of a pre school
element to your programs if you could answer some of my
questions?

1) How do you base your tuition for families? Do you figure
a cost over a nine month period and then factor in the
holidays into that cost and charge families the same amount
per month whether the child is there every day or not?

2)How many breaks do you take each year? Sounds like some
of you take a two week break around the holidays. That
makes sense. Then in December do you half your payment?

2)Are there other times that you close during the year? I
was thinking the week over the 4th of July or/and maybe the
first two weeks of August due to the last minute summer
trips many families take before the start of school for
their older children.

3)Do you have parents sign a contract for a set amount of
time, figure the cost for the entire school year, and
divide that into monthly payments?

4)I was thinking of having two cycles of contracts: June-
July, or mid August to May or that could be extended into
June-July if needed.

Thank you for any input. We just decided to do this this
week so a lot of things are going through my mind.

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