I have a funny story actually. I had a boy in my care for a year. He was a handful (I mentioned in a different thread how his parents worked non-stop and he was starved for attention whether good or bad). He was hard to handle and took up a lot of my time and energy. Looking back he took so much out of me and away from my group. I cut our art/crafts down to once a week because he was so exhausting. The funny thing is his parents took him to a center so that he would have more of a pre-school type setting with more arts/crafts/learning type environment. Funny thing is once he left my care I had so much more time to do those types of things with my group and actually enjoy doing it again. I felt so sorry for the girls in that center lol!!