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When a franchise owner opens a childcare center, the clock starts ticking immediately. Here's how the industry thinks about that critical ramp-up period, and how Procare is here to help.

Everything early childhood directors need to know about quality standards, accreditation requirements, and state-specific regulations.

Finding the right child care management software for your center means matching the right tool to your situation, budget, and challenges.

Learn how Procare streamlines enrollment, strengthens family communication and gives child care centers the clarity they need to grow sustainably.

We answer questions about anecdotal records such as what they are, how they differ from other types of records and tips for using them!

Small group activities help kids develop skills like cooperation and sharing while socializing and developing their own interests.

Prepare for the 2025-2026 PIR updates with confidence. Learn what’s changing and discover how ChildPlus helps Head Start programs stay compliant.

Updated in 2026, we have 14 sensory activities for infants and 14 more for toddlers. Use these in your classroom or at home today.

Learn about the 4 key ingredients of successful ECE training: access, shared experience, psychological safety, and application.

This new report identifies the four biggest challenges ECE centers face: staff retention, enrollment, limited public funding and professional development. 

Discover why collaborative professional development works better for early childhood programs and how shared learning improves engagement.

The right software won't just organize your schedules. It prevents compliance violations, cuts down on overtime costs, and gives you back precious time.

Conscious Discipline teaches children the skills they need to regulate emotions, solve problems, and build positive relationships.

This guide shares the why, the planning tips, and 50 creative, practical, and budget-flexible ideas to help you celebrate your teachers.

Want to boost your child care center's enrollment? Let’s look at some tips for enrolling new families and how Procare can help!

Let’s explore more about process art and effective methods for teaching process art in a preschool setting!

Child care centers and daycares must keep sensitive data safe. Let's look at some best practices in child care cybersecurity.

Learn how to develop gross motor skills in daycare with these activities tailored to children of different age groups!

The foundation of English language starts with just five crucial letters - A, E, I, O, and U. These vowels form the backbone of our language, making reading, writing, and speaking possible.

Child care management software should make your life easier, not more complicated. Yet many centers using Brightwheel are finding themselves frustrated.

When families have convenient ways to handle their tuition payments, your admin team can redirect their energy from payment collection to more valuable center management tasks.

Improve fine motor skills for preschoolers with crafts, tracing and building blocks. Discover expert-curated activities to help!

You'll learn how to identify your real needs, avoid common pitfalls, and choose a solution that truly supports your center.

Trying to understand what type of preschool is best for your family? From play-based to academic-focused, we'll break it all down.

Let's take a look at crafts and games such as a "heart hunt" to celebrate Valentine's Day in your child care center!

Learn how to create an effective potty training policy for your daycare. Get tips for teachers and a framework for partnering with parents.

Let’s take a look at how to build and maintain a positive culture for ECE staff, including how to recognize and reward efforts!

Understand the common causes of burnout and prioritize your staff’s well-being to create a positive shift in your center’s culture!

Check out these daycare lesson planning tips and see weekly lesson plans with themes for 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds and infants!

Over the past few weeks, Procare staff carefully evaluated all finalists. With the highest number of votes, Riley emerged as our chosen winner!

Our five most-popular webinars of 2025 cover topics from building a strong culture to mastering effective child care marketing strategies!

Help children develop fine motor skills, express their creativity and make lasting memories with these five simple and festive winter craft ideas!

Discover how drop-in care can help build lasting relationships with families and ensure your center’s long-term success.

Check out these five gobbly good ideas for turkey crafts that each promote a different learning objective for your preschoolers!

Get answers to your questions about SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. Learn what it is, why it matters in child care and how it helps build trust.

We're setting the record straight on myths about Procare pricing. Learn the truth about Procare's lack of hidden fees and no contracts!

We're setting the record straight on 5 myths about Procare. Learn the truth about Procare's flexibility, features and implementation process. 

Discover how offering drop-in care can boost revenue, attract new customers and maximize capacity at your child care center.

Get your questions answered about how Procare makes child care daily attendance tracking easier and more accurate!

Spooky treats, crafts, indoor trick-or-treating ... Halloween is coming and we've got ideas to help you celebrate at your child care center!

Discover how Procare enables contactless check-ins, tracks attendance and simplifies communication for busy child care centers.

Discover five fun and easy Halloween crafts for child care centers. Find step-by-step instructions for engaging activities kids will love.

Explore preschool enrichment programs with our question-and-answer guide for providers. Get tips to enhance your child care center!

Check out five Halloween party themes for preschoolers to ensure that little ones enjoy themselves without feeling overwhelmed!

Check out these eight ideas to celebrate fall in your preschool classrooms, from leaf mazes to nature-themed treasure hunts.

Learn how a preschool classroom job chart builds confidence and teaches young children responsibility. This blog includes job ideas and tips.

Craft the perfect preschool welcome letter with our expert tips. Set a positive tone, personalize your message and connect with families.

Let's look at six key elements of an effective daycare routine, as well as three ways to implement and maintain routines!

Consistent routines not only provide a sense of security but also foster independence, emotional stability and cognitive growth.

Get weekly, monthly and seasonal preschool theme ideas for your child care center, and learn about thematic units!

Infant routines in daycare create a sense of security and must meet parents' expectations for baby schedules as well.

Check out five ideas for child care and ECE teachers to make that first day of school memorable and smooth!

Preschool daily schedules help children feel secure and understand. Let's look at examples of preschool schedule ideas!

Let's look at four fun birthday board ideas that preschool teachers can create to celebrate the special days of little learners!

Here's how you can make parents feel more comfortable when they drop off their kids at your preschool for the first time.

Setting the tone for a successful school year begins before the first day. Here are 5 ways to welcome children to preschool!

Learn how to craft engaging child care newsletters! Get tips on content planning, design and keeping parents informed and connected.

Parents want to guarantee their child's safety at child care. Here's a safety checklist for indoors and outdoors at daycares and preschools.

A good digital daycare curriculum provides lesson plans for all age groups and creates the conditions for children to discover answers.

Let's look at how a strong early childhood education curriculum benefits your students and your child care center!

A child care center's curriculum can tell you a lot about a center. Let's take a look at five important questions parents should ask about a child care center's curriculum before you enroll your kids in their program.

Learn the 10 sections of a child care center family handbook to cover what parents need to know from enrollment and beyond!

No doubt your child care center is all about fun in the sun. Check out this guide to make sure your daycare is ready for summer activities.

Learn how your child care center can benefit from a state-approved ECE curriculum, including bettering your chances of securing grants!

Check out these seven tips for customer retention in child care to keep the families who are enrolled in your daycare year after year!

We’re giving you a step-by-step guide to creating or choosing the best daycare curriculum for your center.

Boost literacy, social skills and emotional expression by creating a dialogue-rich classroom with everyday talk and videos.

Check out some ideas for Fourth of July daycare art projects for preschoolers and toddlers that are simple, safe and fun!

Learn how to build a child care professional development plan, set goals and find training programs to support staff growth.

Discover how preschool enrichment programs benefit kids and child care centers and learn about different enrichment activities.

Early childhood assessments provide vital information about student progress, inform instructional strategies and identify learning gaps!

Parent-to-administrator messaging offers a direct messaging for private discussions on sensitive child care topics such as billing.

Here are five Father's Day craft ideas tailored to different age groups at your daycare so every child can create a memorable gift.

ACH remains the most common form of tuition payment among child care centers, but too many centers rely on more dated payment forms.

A comprehensive curriculum is more than teaching ABCs and 123s. It’s about fostering cognitive, social, emotional and physical growth.

Let's look at how early childhood professional development helps teachers manage the challenges of their jobs!

Explore professional development for ECE including training, workshops, CDAs and online programs to elevate your child care center.

Let's take a look at the four early childhood age ranges you need to be aware of and appropriate care techniques for each.

Learn how child care staff benefit, and experience less stress during their days, with the help of a daycare app!

Curriculum and assessments in ECE are vital to helping young learners grow. Let's take a look at the reasons why they matter.

Explore social and emotional development activities for 3-5 year-olds. Build essential preschool social skills like empathy and self-control.

Let’s take a look at for ways to help you and your child care staff avoid burnout and fully enjoy your work with children.

Learn how to create a CDA portfolio with tips, templates and examples. Perfect for daycare teachers looking to earn their CDA credential!

Learn how child care management software can help your ECE teachers better manage their classrooms with less stress!

Check out 5 Mother’s Day crafts for preschoolers that kids will love creating and moms will cherish forever!

This comprehensive guide will walk you through everything you need to know about hosting a memorable preschool graduation!

Discover the top 25 questions parents ask prospective daycare and child care centers, and be ready to give an impressive response.

Learn how to renew your Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Find renewal requirements, costs, and step-by-step instructions to maintain your certification. 

Learn how incorporating videos into curriculum helps young children understand abstract ideas by making them easier to see and explore.

Learn how Procare can simplify billing, attendance tracking and more to simplify running your before and after school program!

Let's look at how to craft a daycare sick policy, as well as examples of what to include in the policy to keep kids and staff healthy!

Daycares struggle with hiring and retaining staff. Let's look at ways to improve staff well-being, including professional development!

Let’s answer five common questions about simplifying and improving professional development training in child care centers!

SEO plays a big role in helping prospective customers find your child care center. Learn how to use SEO to grow your daycare business.

It’s time to celebrate with these five fun activities you can do with kids at your child care center to celebrate the changing of the season!

As a growing number of child care centers report being under-enrolled, learn how Procare can help grow your child care center's enrollment!

Check out these educational and fun activities for St. Patrick’s Day in your preschool classrooms to teach math and more!

Let’s explore how to teach letter recognition in your child care center's preschool rooms, as well as fun activities to make it fun!

If your child care center has the capacity to take in more students, spring break is a great opportunity to boost enrollment and revenue.

Learn how to develop gross motor skills in daycare with these activities tailored to children of different age groups!

Daycare vs. preschool: Do you know the difference? Discover the characteristics of each and find out what makes them different in this guide.

Looking for ways to make your daycare stand out? Give families perks that they can’t find in other child care centers around you!

With Procare's integrated proprietary payment processing, your child care center gets low fees and dedicated support at no additional charge. 

Let’s take a look at what you can do to help your preschoolers get the rest they need, including routines, preschool mats and music!

Learn how to make informed decisions about your child care business with these budget forecasting tips.

Let's look at five ways to keep kids active in your child care center when there's bad weather and you're stuck inside!

If you’re looking for ways to increase family engagement at your preschool, consider hosting parent teacher conferences!

Running a daycare center can be costly. Let's look at the most common expenses and how to plan for them to make your business successful!

Why do child care centers need digital accounting, bookkeeping and payment software? We answer five questions!

Procare Solutions can help you consolidate your child care center's statements and billing, and easily process tuition payments!

Has the "empty pocket syndrome" ever struck at your child care center, daycare or preschool?

See who won iPads and Lakeshore Learning gift cards for sharing their feedback for our new child care report!

Our five most-popular webinars of 2024 include how to attract new families to your preschool and leadership tips to train & keep your staff!

Onlooker play helps children observe, learn and build confidence. Let's look at ways to nurture this type of play in your daycare!

The six stages of play are how children learn at different ages. Let's look at how to incorporate play activities into your child care center!

As you prepare year-end daycare invoices, learn what information must be included and additional tips to organize tax information.

For children, parents and even staff, high-quality child care can lead to lifelong benefits. Read on to learn more.

Every employee wants to feel valued. We have four ideas for gifts that show how much you appreciate your child care center staff.

Let’s take a look at Thanksgiving party ideas for your daycare with tips to ensure your little ones have a fun turkey-day celebration.

How do you leave your mark on the world through child care? Establish a vision with your own child care philosophy. Learn why this is so important.

Knowing which child care positions need to be filled is key for a well-run center. Learn more about what role they play in your succcess!

Our tips and activities will help you develop a self-regulation program for children in your child care center.

Prioritizing self care and and creating a supportive work culture can breathe new energy into your teachers' resilience and passion!

Running into behavior issues with your students? Here are 10 strategies to promote positive behaviors in the preschool classroom.

To keep staff happy and make sure they don’t burn out, you must find ways to reduce their stress year-round!

If you’re not on Facebook, you’re missing easy access to relevant information, child care industry updates and timely tips!

Here’s a step-by-step guide to improve your child care center's QRIS rating to significantly influence your reputation and boost enrollment.

Let's look at five ideas for fall-themed bulletin boards in your preschool classrooms to encourage creativity and fun!

Tammie Hogan, chief customer officer of Procare Solutions, shares how Procare is the only true all-in-one solution for child care centers.

Learn how Procare can take care of many day-to-day burdens for your ECE staff to help improve retention!

Preschool assessments allow you to understand how a child learns best and the optimal ways to support their mental growth.

Monitoring cognitive milestones can provide insights into a child’s mental progress. Let's take a look at milestones for each ECE age group!

ECE expert Beth Cannon shares why you must identify potential leaders and invest in their development so they can grow within your center.

Developmental domains in early childhood provide a framework for observing and fostering a child's development.  Let's explore each domain!

Show children how to make self-inflating balloons, experiment with color mixing and absorption and make their own fossils!

In this comprehensive checklist, we’ve outlined 100 of the most important daycare supplies you should consider for your center.

Let’s answer some questions about emergent literacy and look at ways you can implement this learning into your daycare classrooms!

Developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) help children learn and also help de-stress teachers. Learn more about DAP from Prerna Richards!

Let's look at five tips to teach sight words to preschoolers, including using beginner sight words as well as repetition and consistency.

Let’s take a look at four tried-and-tested tips to help you boost enrollment and grow your daycare business!

Let's look at some tips to inspire career growth among your child care center's employees, including how professional development can help!

Coming up with circle time activities for a variety of ages and seasons can be challenging. Here are a few ideas to try our at your center.

Child care apps help families and teachers communicate, but do so much more!. Which features should you look for in a daycare app?

Let's look at summer art activities that emphasize the process rather than the final product for your preschoolers!

Let’s take a look at how to select the best books to read to infants and toddlers in your child care center!

Use these tips to show off your child care center's curriculum to prospective parents and set yourself apart from other providers!

Leaving a child at daycare can be a challenging experience for both a child and parent. Let's look at tips to make dropoffs easier!

Check out these five Father's Day craft ideas for all the age groups in your daycare to create a memorable gift!

Understanding the cost of child care in America is important for both parents and child care providers. Get a state-by-state breakdown here.

Let’s take a look at five preschool open house ideas for your child care center that will highlight your center's program.

Let’s take a look at preschool extracurricular classes for your child care center, including music, dance, gymnastics and other sports!

A child care app helps you communicate with parents, collect tuition and more!

Scaffolding in early childhood education uses successive levels of temporary support to help children learn. Let's look at examples!

Let's dig into the the four main challenges faced by child care centers and explore how Procare can solve each one!

Here are 10 ways to show your appreciation during Teacher Appreciation Week!

Let’s take a look at five things you can do as early childhood educators to prioritize your mental health!

Let's take a look at the most sought-after child care billing and accounting features center's need to run a healthy business.

Paper-based curriculum, which becomes outdated quickly, is still being used in many ECE programs. Here's what a digital curriculum can do!

Earth Day is coming up! Here are five ways to celebrate in your child care center's classrooms with activities, crafts and singing!

Active supervision includes multiple strategies to ensure that caregivers are fully engaged with children. Let's look at some strategies! 

Check out these tips and activities for how to teach preschoolers about feelings, emotions and self-regulation!

April is Move More Month! Let's take a look at 10 activities that blend fun with fitness to keep young children active!

Let's look at activities you can do in your child care and ECE programs to safely teach kids about the solar eclipse!

Our 2024 child care trends report found that 61% of respondents struggle to hire and retain staff. Let's look at ways to reverse this trend!

Starting a successful after school program offers an important service to working parents and their kids. Here are 6 key steps to starting an after school program.

The 2024 child care industry trends report found that ACH is the most common form of tuition payment among child care centers surveyed.

Celebrate spring with this Procare Early Learning lesson plan for a fun and educational spring-themed activity for your pre-K classrooms!

Late payments can hold your child care business back. Learn how to end late payments and simplify running your business!

With the right approach, integrating technology in preschool classrooms can support learning and development.

A Procare Solutions report found that 44% of child care programs rely on on paper and pencil to run their businesses.

Let's take a look at how phonemic awareness and phonological awareness help develop pre-reading skills in young learners!

Black History Month provides a perfect opportunity to introduce ECE books that celebrate Black heritage. Let's take a look at one such book!

Black History Month provides a perfect opportunity to introduce ECE books that celebrate Black heritage. Let's take a look at one such book!

Black History Month provides a perfect opportunity to introduce ECE books that celebrate Black heritage. Let's take a look at one such book!

Let’s take a look at five ways to help your child care center's staff get the most out of professional development days!

Black History Month provides a perfect opportunity to introduce ECE books that celebrate Black heritage. Let's take a look at one such book!

Check out these three activities that mesh Valentine's Day, a day to celebrate love, with a love of science!

The top 5 Procare Solutions webinars of 2023 covered topics you care about, from streamlining registration to transforming daycares into ECE centers!

Learn the benefits of having a daycare parent handbook for your child care center and 10 items your handbook should include.

Child care staffing and explainers on ECE funding topped this year's list of the most popular episodes of the Child Care Business Podcast!

In 2023, Procare Solutions released enhancements that helped child cares grow their businesses and educate young learners.  

Each year, Procare Solutions surveys thousands of child care leaders for a technology report. Here's who won prizes for taking the survey! 

Let’s explore what natural and logical consequences are, when to use them and examples of these consequences for preschoolers!

With the Procare child care mobile app, you can share pictures and videos with parents, collect tuition, send documents and more!

For World Usability Day, let's get answers from Melissa Skrbic-Huss, director of UI/UX design for Procare Solutions, to four questions!

Here's a quick overview to see if a dependent care flexible-savings account could be a good fit for parents of the kids in your care!

Let’s look at fundraising ideas for your preschool, and we’ll break them down by season of the year and the ages of kids in your school!

Let’s take a look at activities and crafts that teachers can use on the first day of preschool, including lessons for kids ages 3 and 4!

Let's look at how you can incorporate unoccupied play in your child care center's baby rooms to foster their development!

Fall assessments in child cares are essential to helping kids be ready for kindergarten, and they benefit educators, students and parents.

Child care management software can help with billing complexities of divorced or separated parents who both make daycare payments.

A digital curriculum can support ECE teachers while helping children recover from pandemic-related learning delays.

Building family connections at your child care center or preschool contributes to the well-being of children, parents and staff.

Solitary play gives children the freedom to explore their interests without the influence of others. Let's look at how to nurture this play!

As a loss of federal child care funds looms, some states are paying to continue policies and programs created through the relief funds.

Check out this Procare Early Learning lesson plan for a fun and educational fall activity for preschoolers!

Collecting tuition for your child care center can be one of the least pleasant parts of your job. Learn how Procare can solve five tuition challenges for you!

Here are 5 tips to help you minimize backlash when you raise child care tuition rates.