Fast Facts

Become a Home-Based Child Care Operator in Missouri and start your own child care business with the support of Wonderschool, allowing you to set your hours, curriculum, and program pricing.

Responsibilities: Setting up and running a home-based child care program, including curriculum planning, marketing, and management.

Skills: Experience in child care, ECE classes or training, ability to manage a business.

Qualifications: Experience working in child care settings and willingness to open a home-based business.

Location: Missouri, United States

Compensation: $70000 - $100000 / Annually

Locations: Missouri

Now is the time for you to realize your full potential as an educator, parent, or experienced nanny and open your own home-based child care program out of your house. You can make a difference in your local community and educate the next generation of students as early as infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. You are your own boss and you own your business, 100%. You set your hours, your holidays, your program pricing, and decide on the curriculum you want to teach. It is a revolutionary change of life for many educators that seek this independence. 

Wonderschool partners with you to coach you through starting your own child care business. From getting started, filing for a child care license to setting up your business model, pricing, marketing your program, and receiving your first enrollment, Wonderschool is there every step of the way. 

Wonderschool provides a child care marketplace and it’s mission is to ensure every child has access to child care that helps them realize their potential. We have extensive experience launching brand new child care programs in both large metropolitan markets and small communities and have thousands of providers across the country on our platform. 

Who you are: 

• Have experience working either at a child care center or a family child care (FCC) and/or has taken ECE classes or training 
• Own or rent a home and willing to open up a child care business out of your house

What you get in partnering with Wonderschool:

• Access to world-class early childhood experts ready to advise you along the way 
• Dedicated licensing support at every stage of your process and catered to your specific needs
• National community of child care professionals who are also running their own home-based child care, just like you will be
• Tools and support to help manage your business: marketing, payments, messaging, and management tools

Note that when you apply, you are applying to receive no-cost training, coaching and support as you prepare to launch your child care program through Wonderschool Academy. This academy is designed to help you start your own child care business. Training and coaching continues as you continue to grow your program. Wonderschool is not hiring individuals; we are providing a limited time offer to start your own business in Missouri. Learn more: https://www.wonderschool.com/corp/missouri

What success looks like: 

• Owning your own business allows you to set your care calendar. Providers vacation over the summer and winter easily
• Charging tuition is easy and automatic with our payment platform (no more cash, checks, or Venmo from parents)

Estimated Yearly Revenue Range:

$70,000-100,000*+

*to understand how much you can earn, we will need to understand your local dynamics and expected costs - such as food, utilities, number of paid teachers, to operate your program.

Interested in starting your own in-home child care program? Apply today, and someone from our team will be in touch shortly after reviewing your application.