If you run a childcare center, choosing the right accounting firm is one of the most consequential business decisions you’ll make. A good fit can save you tens of thousands of dollars a year in tax planning, recovered revenue, and avoided penalties. A bad fit can cost you the same amount through missed opportunities and generic advice that doesn’t account read more.

Building Emotional Resilience in Children Ages 0–5: A Childcare Owner’s Heart-to-Heart Hey there, friend. Let’s talk about something close to your heart (and ours, too): those tiny humans you pour your time into every single day and their emotional resilience. You know the moment. A toddler’s block tower tumbles over, the lip quivers, the whole world feels like it’s ending… read more.

How to Run a Profitable Childcare Center: The Complete Guide for Owners Most guides on how to run a profitable childcare center come from operators or marketers. This one comes from a CPA firm that has worked exclusively with childcare centers since 2013. The difference matters. Operators tell you what worked at their centers. Marketers tell you what gets clicks. read more.

The 5 Childcare KPIs Every Center Should Track Monthly Most conversations about childcare KPIs start in the wrong place. Most center owners check their bank account daily. Almost none can tell you their slot-day utilization rate. That gap is why centers with strong enrollment still feel financially tight. The bank account tells you what happened. It cannot tell you why, read more.

Managing Staff Attendance and Disciplinary Issues in Childcare: A Director’s Practical Guide Let’s be honest — running a childcare center is a beautiful kind of chaos. One minute you’re wiping a runny nose, the next you’re chasing down a permission slip, and somewhere in between you’re trying to figure out why Miss Jenna called out again this Friday. Sound familiar? read more.

Can You Afford a Wage Increase? A Feasibility Framework for Childcare Centers Wage pressure on childcare centers has never been higher. New Mexico’s ECECD now ties enhanced reimbursement rates to entry-level wages of $16 to $19 per hour. Washington DC requires Living Wage compliance at $17.95 per hour and pays out from a Pay Equity Fund that benchmarks educator salaries read more.

Why Profit First Doesn’t Work for Childcare Centers (and the Simpler System That Does) If you have read Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First and tried to apply it to your childcare center, you almost certainly hit a wall. The promise is compelling: open multiple bank accounts, transfer fixed percentages of revenue into each, then run your operating expenses out of the read more.