It happens to us all, at some point in our business.  We want to expand, have multiple family child care homes, open a center or preschool.  We want to get BIG. I had this happen, about six months into opening at this place.

I always say that the Green Fish shows up in strange and unusual places.  It is not always a learning moment for my kids.  Sometimes, like this, it is a learning moment for me. I have always wanted to run a group family child care home.  What does that mean, more kids and more adults.  I just knew that this was the way to go for Little Scholar.  It would be great!

If nothing else it was a learning experience. Here is what I learned.

• Employee taxes suck.
• My house is to small for that many kids.
• Kansas does not allow me that many extra children to make running a group home profitable.
• I was not as good anymore.
• I was not good at delegation.
• It was the wrong time.

So, as it happens in our business the lives of the families we work with change, and I again had the opportunity to change with it.  I decide that being a big fish was not what I wanted.  I do not want to be a center or a preschool.  I do not want to lose the family atmosphere that I have with the smaller group. I do not want to pay employee taxes.  Being little has its advantages, that is why I am glad to have went through this little journey, it helped me really define what I am, as a business owner and teacher.