To be honest I have only had ONE kid in the past 5 years of home care have this issue cause the play is generally so 'calm' here that they do not get frustrated ~ the most I deal with behaviour wise is the oh so wonderful WHINE and TATTLING of a couple of the girls 'she's looking at me' 'I dont WAAAAAAANT to play .... that type stuff that is annoying but not really 'bad' behaviour

In the playroom I just let 'the potential biter' play ~ I situation myself so that I can always see the 'potential biter' out of corner of my eye and to be honest I did not sit ON the floor during this time I stayed in a chair so I could move in a blink if need be and just made sure to keep my eye on the child ~ kinda like driving a car with the 10 second rule of looking in your mirrors and bac to the road ahead ~ so if I was reading a book to a small group of kids I was reading - glancing up at child - reading - glancing up so that if there was another child 'near' them than I was doing that even more often. I also put a 'teething ring' ON the child so that I could redirect 'bite on this if you are feeling the need to bit' cause most of the issue was 'teething' ....child was just sore so was mouthing everything and anything so having the 'acceptable outlet' to redirect too moved the child through the phase quickly.

I will admit I think it is easier for me because I am anal about my age groupings in my care ... so I never have more than 1 children in this stage at once the other kids are all older .... for example my group generally consists of a child who is 1, a child who is almost 2 and the others are almost 3, almost 4 and almost 5 ... so than by the end of the summer the 5 year old leaves for Grade 1 cause they are 'almost 6' now and than makes room for a new 1 year old and the other kids are now almost 2, almost 3, almost 4 and almost 5 again and I have done this consistently since opening with average turn over of 1 client a year .... until this year when I had clients 'leave' last year mid year due to a move out of city and screwed up my 'start times and ages' so now I currently have a 1 year old, 2.5 year old and two 4 year olds and a 6 year old and in September I will loose all 3 of the oldest at the same time to full day early learning and grade one however when filling my spaces I am looking for children OVER 2 it is just taking me a little longer to fill those spaces

Once Full day Early Learning starts for ALL schools and there are no 4-5 year olds my guess is that I will reevaluate my business plan to have LESS kids in care since it will be hard to find enough 'over 2 year olds' and you will only have them such a short time before they are in school full time