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Why Have A Website?
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Book Nook
Tom Copeland's Taking Care of Business

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Why Have

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A website allows you to market your child care program, stay in touch with parents and make your forms and handbook available for downloading.  You can even set up your website to allow parents to pay you

on-line.  Imagine not having to collect those checks every month anymore!   

 

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More and more resources, information, marketing and professional development opportunities are available on-line for providers.  In some cases, these resources are available ONLY on-line.  This is why I am on a mission to get all family child care providers computer literate AND on-line.  In this newsletter, I will be focusing on resources, services and materials available on-line for providers.

Promote Your Business For Free!

serchingforchildcarelogoI want to let you know about a free child care directory that I have just developed, and invite you to list your family child care program.  The directory allows providers nation-wide to list their child care businesses.  Parents can then search for providers by location, language, ages served, hours of operation, etc.

I believe it is vital for providers to be listed in on-line directories because parents do pretty much everything from work to play to shopping on-line so, of course, they are also looking for child care on-line. Though every provider should have a website to promote their business, even if you do have one, unless you are listed in these directories, parents will never find your website in search engines. 

This directory is free for providers to list their programs.

Click here to list your program.

Book Nook

Ideas for Using Books to Support

Social Emotional Development

  

Have you checked out The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) website yet?  They have many resources, materials and ideas for promoting social and emotional development.  One great resource is the Book Nook - " These easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers/caregivers and parents to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines. Each book nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around popular children's books such as When I Am/Cuando estoy."

"Examples of suggested activities include using rhymes to talk about being friends, making emotion masks to help children identify and talk about different feelings, playing games around what to do with hands instead of hitting and fun music and movement activities to express emotions."  When i Am

When I Am/Cuando estoy , By Gladys Rosa-Mendoz

When I am/Cuando Estoy is a board book for toddlers and preschoolers. The text is in both English and Spanish. Each page captures an emotion (happy, sad, tired, angry, bored, worried, frightened, surprised, and lonely)

You can find this, and the other Book Nook books at The Early Childhood Community Bookstore
 

I highly recommend that you visit and explore the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) website.

Tom Copeland's Taking Care of Business

As most of you know, keeping family child care providers in business is a high priority for me.   

 

Here's another great family child care business resource:

Tom Copland's Taking Care of Business Blog 

 

  
I encourage you to contact me with any thoughts, comments, questions or recommendations.

 

Sincerely,

 


Natalie Brutto
Nakali Consulting, Inc

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