Help With Changing Daycare Name Please

[Evansmom]

Thanks BC I like Gardens of Growing, I hadn't thought of anything like that before.

Starburst, I'm in TX and home schooling has no regulation and it is legal to home school other people's children. I have looked into charter but TX only allows a certain number to exist at one time and the market is full right now. But it's not necessary that I go that route since I'm still planning on keeping the numbers within the legally unlicensed limit that I already operate under which is 3 children unrelated to me.

I have to say that's the one thing I like about TX is that they allow home schooling to be at the parents discretion. We looked into possibly moving back to UT where I lived before and they require you to file a form each year with the district and to keep progress records on each child.

[MarinaVanessa]

How about instead of two sets of business cards you have one set and have bullets of what you offer that way if a family with children that could fit under both home-schooling for younger ages and already have a child in school that needs after-school child care could see that they would benefit from what you offer on one card.

For example:

Suzie Q Home School
Address
Phone number
License #

• Home School Educational Child Care Program for Ages 3-5
• After-school Educational Program for Ages 5-9
• Snacks & Meals
• After-School Pick-Up from ABC Elementary School

Etc.

I'm just thinking that having one card/marketing material with all of your benefits could help you out more especially if you hand them out. Someone may have one in their wallet/purse and may pull it out to give your info out to someone else because they noticed that you offer something else that they don't necessarily need or use but that someone else could benefit from.

[Evansmom]

How about instead of two sets of business cards you have one set and have bullets of what you offer that way if a family with children that could fit under both home-schooling for younger ages and already have a child in school that needs after-school child care could see that they would benefit from what you offer on one card.

For example:

Suzie Q Home School
Address
Phone number
License #

• Home School Educational Child Care Program for Ages 3-5
• After-school Educational Program for Ages 5-9
• Snacks & Meals
• After-School Pick-Up from ABC Elementary School

Etc.

I'm just thinking that having one card/marketing material with all of your benefits could help you out more especially if you hand them out. Someone may have one in their wallet/purse and may pull it out to give your info out to someone else because they noticed that you offer something else that they don't necessarily need or use but that someone else could benefit from.

This is good advice thank you. Plus I didn't want to have two cards, too much to keep up with. I want to make some new cards up soon bc I made friends with the owner of a children's haircut place up the street and she said I could put my cards on her sign in desk but to do that I have to decide on a name which is proving difficult.

[melilley]

How about instead of two sets of business cards you have one set and have bullets of what you offer that way if a family with children that could fit under both home-schooling for younger ages and already have a child in school that needs after-school child care could see that they would benefit from what you offer on one card.

For example:

Suzie Q Home School
Address
Phone number
License #

• Home School Educational Child Care Program for Ages 3-5
• After-school Educational Program for Ages 5-9
• Snacks & Meals
• After-School Pick-Up from ABC Elementary School

Etc.

I'm just thinking that having one card/marketing material with all of your benefits could help you out more especially if you hand them out. Someone may have one in their wallet/purse and may pull it out to give your info out to someone else because they noticed that you offer something else that they don't necessarily need or use but that someone else could benefit from.

That's true. I didn't think about that!

[Evansmom]

Hey melilley! I have a yellow lab too lovethis

We LOVE her and that's an understatement! Is that your lab in your avatar pic?

[melilley]

Hey melilley! I have a yellow lab too lovethis

We LOVE her and that's an understatement! Is that your lab in your avatar pic?

Awww. Yes it is! His name is Tucker. We just love him. We rescued him and he's 3. He thinks he's a lap dog (he's 85 lbs)...

[Evansmom]

Awww. Yes it is! His name is Tucker. We just love him. We rescued him and he's 3. He thinks he's a lap dog (he's 85 lbs)...

Ours is Olivia and she's a doll. She's almost 8 and we've had her since she was 6 weeks old . I am looking to adopt another but I can't decide on a pup or a young one like you have but you just nudged me in the direction of adopting another one like yours

My 5 yo is so attached to our lab that I'm actually afraid of how devastated he is going to be when she goes, he doesn't know life without her. She's a 90 lb lap dog too

[melilley]

Ours is Olivia and she's a doll. She's almost 8 and we've had her since she was 6 weeks old . I am looking to adopt another but I can't decide on a pup or a young one like you have but you just nudged me in the direction of adopting another one like yours

My 5 yo is so attached to our lab that I'm actually afraid of how devastated he is going to be when she goes, he doesn't know life without her. She's a 90 lb lap dog too

I'm kinda glad we didn't have to go through the puppy stage with the potty training, but it would have been neat to see him grow from a puppy. I am glad that we did rescue him though! We got him from a woman who mainly rescues labs and I fell in love with him as soon as I saw him!
That's the bad thing about owning animals, they usually go before you, but it's so worth being able to love them and the kids will have great memories!

[nothingwithoutjoy]

Right now I offer care for ages 2-7 all day like a regular daycare however I'm wanting to change my business to offering homeschooling classes during the day and not caring for small children any more. So more like ages 3 or 4 (depending on the child) to maybe say 8 or 9.

I'm so interested in your progress as you make this transition. I'm planning to shift to older and home schooled children soon, too (my daughter is 4 and will be home schooled. I'd like peers and role models for her). I'd love to hear more about it as you go!

I can't "home school" other people's children, but I can offer "child care" for them. To me it's all a matter of semantics.

[Evansmom]

I'm interested in my progress too ::
I'm a little scared trying to change my business this way but hopefully this will work out. I'm offering 1,2 or 3 day program for homeschoolers and their siblings. My thinking is that most homeschooling families choose to homeschool because they want to be home with their kids and won't want a full day program which is fine because I'm going to try to only work MWF anyway. But I thought that offering part time would work for homeschooling families because then they could have a day or days every week where their kids can socialize and they can leave them here and get errands or appointments done. A lot of the other activities in my area for homeschoolers are not drop off and you have to attend with your children so hopefully the fact that mine is different will make it work.

PM me periodically if you like and I'll keep you up to date on my progress.

My other idea is to do only after school pick up and also care on school holidays so that I have my days free to teach classes and also attend and teach other classes with my son. So basically my two ideas are in competition with each other and which ever one takes off first will get my attention!

My after school program will include doing homework, having snack and playing until 7pm. I'm offering to stay open later than all the other places around here as an incentive for families to sign up. Plus if I'm not working all day I'm happy to stay open one hour later than I am right now as I will only be working 4-5 hours per day anyway as opposed to my 10-11 I do right now.

[nothingwithoutjoy]

Such good ideas! I wish you lots of luck. And thanks for the offer to PM re progress--I will!

[jenn]

Great ideas! I have a really blah daycare name "My name" daycare home. Creative huh?
I will coniune with daycare, but will begin homeschooling my daughter in the fall. We have been trying to think of a name for weeks. We can come up with names that are cutesy, but won't really be cute to say you graduated from. I really like Homespun Heart Academy, but then someone told me that there is a Homespun Heart blog. Would it be wrong to still use that name?

[Evansmom]

Great ideas! I have a really blah daycare name "My name" daycare home. Creative huh?
I will coniune with daycare, but will begin homeschooling my daughter in the fall. We have been trying to think of a name for weeks. We can come up with names that are cutesy, but won't really be cute to say you graduated from. I really like Homespun Heart Academy, but then someone told me that there is a Homespun Heart blog. Would it be wrong to still use that name?

I like that name too! I don't know if it is wrong to semi copy someone's name. I'm liking Love of Learning Home School for mine and there is a Loveoflearning.org but its in another state so I'm struggling with it. I guess it's whatever you feel comfortable with.

[Starburst]

Great ideas! I have a really blah daycare name "My name" daycare home. Creative huh?
I will coniune with daycare, but will begin homeschooling my daughter in the fall. We have been trying to think of a name for weeks. We can come up with names that are cutesy, but won't really be cute to say you graduated from. I really like Homespun Heart Academy, but then someone told me that there is a Homespun Heart blog. Would it be wrong to still use that name?

It depends on if that name is registered with your state or not. If it's taken and you don't want your name to be associated with it if they did something to upset their customers. If it is not available maybe something like 'Home Is Were The Heart Is Academy' (kinda long though); 'Queen of Heart Academy'; 'Warm Hearts Academy'; 'Homemade Hearts Academy'; 'St. Hearts Academy'; 'Helping Hearts Academy'; 'Loving Hearts Academy'; 'Charming Hearts Academy'; 'Hands and Hearts Academy'; 'Hearts and Minds Academy'; or 'Sacred Heart Academy' (but I think that is a catholic school)