So I think I may be onto something here with one of my dcbs....he's the 18 months old that I've mentioned in a previous post who cries ALL day, follows me around, and is just plain miserable every single day....today he shows up at 7am, starts crying about 2 minutes after I put him down to play (this is normal and usually continues all day)....my son was getting ready for a late breakfast cause he slept in - I put a honking blueberry muffin on his plate and immediately dcb makes a dive towards to table, arms in the air, squealing as though he wants one too....suspiciously I put him in his high hair (he hasn't eaten in the chair for over a month - all he will do is graze while walking around following me) ...I put a muffin down in front of him and doesn't he devour the entire jumbo muffin...so I give him another one and down it goes! He then drank a full sippy of milk. So, the entire morning so far has been AMAZING! No crying, he's actually playing with the other children, he's even giggled a few times and given me some space. My thought process here is that he may not be having breakfast at home before he comes to daycare which is causing a bad start to the morning, and the snowballing into the entire day....his parents know I do NOT serve breakfast, so I assumed that he came fed. Does anyone else think a lack of breakfast could cause this child to be so unhappy everyday? I've already given the family termination notice for payment issues, but was thinking of mentioning the morning breakfast issue to help the little guy when he starts with a new provider.