Creative, Effective Expense Categories: Simple Templates & Systems for Better Financial Control   Let’s talk about something that doesn’t feel very “warm and fuzzy,” but absolutely protects the heart of your center: how you group and track your expenses. When your childcare expense categories are clear and your system is simple, you see problems sooner, make decisions faster, and sleep read more.

What one owner’s child care business purchase taught him about the due diligence you can’t afford to skip. You found the perfect child care center. The numbers look good. The location is right. The teachers want to stay. You close the deal on a Friday, plan to reopen Monday, and then — you can’t open. That’s exactly what happened to read more.

A guide for child care center owners and operators exploring Applied Behavior Analysis as a service expansion and revenue diversification strategy. The child care industry faces a persistent challenge: operating on thin margins while demand for specialized services continues to grow. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) offers child care centers a powerful opportunity to address both problems at once—expanding the families read more.

The child care industry faces a severe workforce crisis. In fact, more than 150,000 workers are “missing” compared to pre-pandemic projections. As a result, staffing shortages keep getting worse. For child care center owners, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — known as WIOA — offers powerful tools to recruit, train, and retain staff at little to no cost. What read more.

Turning Cardboard Boxes into Imaginative Play Structures (for Little Learners) Let’s talk about something every childcare center has too much of…shipping boxes. Instead of breaking them down and rushing them to recycling, you can turn those boxes into play structures that kids adore and that secretly support all kinds of learning. Why cardboard boxes are a “hidden gem” Cardboard box read more.

Payroll is the single largest expense in most child care businesses — often consuming 60% to 70% of total revenue. However, it’s also the area where the costliest compliance mistakes tend to hide. From IRS penalties to Department of Labor investigations, a single child care payroll error can snowball into thousands of dollars in fines, back pay, and sleepless nights.​ read more.

Avoiding the Top 10 Payroll Mistakes in Childcare Operations As accountants who live and breathe early childhood education, we see the same payroll headaches pop up in centers over and over again. Fixing them is usually simple—but ignoring them can cost you thousands and create trust issues with your team. Below are the 10 most common childcare payroll mistakes we read more.

Parents today are asking AI tools to help them find child care. Instead of scrolling through Google results, they type questions into ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. As a result, these tools respond with direct recommendations. If your childcare center doesn’t show up in those answers, you’re invisible during the decision-making process. An AI visibility self-audit reveals whether your read more.