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View Poll Results: How many consecutive years have you been in business as a Family Home Daycare?
1 to 2 7 15.56%
3 to 4 7 15.56%
5 to 6 3 6.67%
7 to 8 4 8.89%
9 to 10 7 15.56%
11 to 12 0 0%
13 to 14 1 2.22%
15 to 16 4 8.89%
17 to 18 5 11.11%
19 to 20+ 7 15.56%
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Daycare Center and Family Home Forum>Years in Business as a Home Daycare Provider
Cat Herder 10:53 AM 03-29-2011
Home Daycare Providers:

I am curious as the the number of years each of you have worked, privately, as a Home Daycare Provider, as a business, for your income.

I am attempting to include a poll in this thread, we shall see how it goes.

* I do not mean Childcare Experience, Center Experience or Years caring for family/friends/neighbors/your own children. Please feel free to post in a reply, that would be very interesting as well.

Thanks!!
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blueclouds29 10:55 AM 03-29-2011
I just started the first week in Sept. So not even a year.
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dEHmom 10:56 AM 03-29-2011
Officially in my home May 2010.
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Unregistered 10:59 AM 03-29-2011
Just past the 5 year mark this february doing it in my home!
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Missani 11:17 AM 03-29-2011
Less than one year as a home daycare provider. More than 10 at a center before that and about 10 years in the non-childcare world (some of them overlapped). I started my home daycare in August 0f 2010.
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juliebug 11:21 AM 03-29-2011
I voted 5-6

I started with my first family 5.5 years ago. but didn't become licenced until 3 years ago. so i voted 5-6. I love it but the coming and going of children latley really has got to me in the last year. i have only had one constant child in the last year.
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Meeko 11:48 AM 03-29-2011
Coming up on my 25th "Silver Jubilee" soon!
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youretooloud 11:56 AM 03-29-2011
It'll be 25 years at the end of May for me.
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Meyou 12:59 PM 03-29-2011
Just passed my 4 year anniversary and couldn't be happier.
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melskids 01:16 PM 03-29-2011
i met a woman at a training a few months ago who has been providing care in her home for 46 years. she now has her first clients' grandchild. can you believe that
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Symphony 01:42 PM 03-29-2011
I had a home daycare for four years, taught in a center as a lead teacher for two and then back to home daycare for the last four years.
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BentleysBands 01:57 PM 03-29-2011
Will be 26yrs in December
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Evansmom 02:10 PM 03-29-2011
3 years this month and going strong!

I read somewhere that 2 years is average b/c of burn out.
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Lucy 02:34 PM 03-29-2011
17 years this year. In my home. Same home I'm in now. And it's funny to remember back to 1994 and how different I did things. Not much of a contract, not much of a set of "policies" - actually none now that I think about it. I didn't have paid days off for me, and they did not pay if they were not here. I got taken advantage of. Boy, have things changed in that time!!
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