Stacy Anderson opens day care at her home

Starting a day care, or any other new business, is not as easy as some would think. It takes a lot of training, along with patience, before your business can really take off. If you enjoy the company of children, and you want to work from home, then starting up a day care is definitely for you, like it was for Stacy Anderson, of Grygla. 

In an interview with the Eagle last week, Stacy said, “I really wanted to work from home and there was definitely a need for a day care in the area.” Although she just recently opened her day care, Stacy isn’t completely new to the business; she used to own and operate a day care many years ago when her son, Zach, was little. Zach is now in college, and Stacy has another child, Torii, who will be a first grader this year at Grygla Elementary. Stacy says she is enjoying being a day care provider once again and loves saving the money and traveling back and forth to work every day. She was previously employed as a manager of Diamond’s Bar & Grill. 

To get her license, Stacy had to complete 16 classroom hours in order to get her training in CPR, first aid and abusive head trauma. Currently, Stacy’s day care has five children. In order to watch up to ten, she must also complete her training in child growth and development, sudden unexpected infant death and car passenger safety. If she wanted, she could take additional training after her first year in order to become licensed for more children, but Stacy would like to keep her day care small and manageable with a max of ten kids. 

Stacy started her day care business earlier this year, being open for a few months now. For more information on openings and hours, you can reach her at 218-294-6319 or on her cell at 218-684-4970. Stacy’s day care is located west of Grygla a few miles.