I taught pre-school at a large center for a few years about 22 years ago. We had a male student working there too, who was SOOO great with the kids. He got married and he and his wife ran an in home daycare for a few years. Then they bought a small center in a neighboring town...thinking they were moving up.

I saw them a couple years later in a store and mentioned that we had toyed with the idea of opening a center too.

they said don't do it unless you go big. They had one for about 40 kids and after all the overhead for the building and staff, they were barely pocketing any more than they had been doing large group daycare at home. Yet the work was a lot more. They later expanded and were happy with it, but they has regretted it at first, simply due to not being big enough.
So their advice was go big or go home!

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