Oh hon ~ not judging ... I worked for over 15 years in infant and toddler care where the ratio was up to 1:5 children under 2 so I totally know that the young ratio is manageable ~ it is just that because there are so many in the same age feeding off each others lack of social development your 'incidents' of risk are going to be higher and it is just more demanding to stay on top of them.

In centre care with so many all in the same age and stage accident and incidents reports were 'higher' because of the law of averages so to speak ~ even when you had an awesome calm program when you have ALL the kids learning to walk at the same time you cannot 'catch them all' if they stumble, if you have ALL the kids teething you cannot prevent the biting and so forth cause you only have two hands, two eyes and so forth .... so it is not anything you are doing or not doing it is just the reality of that age group.