Why are they not playing toys............advi ce

[jodaycare]

I have been in this business for over 20 years and I have seen a huge change in the way children play. My daycare children have a few toys out each day, meaning 2 or 3 bucket toys at a time, maube 10 books in the book centre and my climbing mats and it makes no difference. They still bash and throw the toys everywhere and many of them are just wanderers. I end up rotating toys several times a day! Just to try to get them interested in playing with something for more than 2 seconds. Most of my daycare children are 2 or older and by that age they should be learning to play independently to a point. If I sit on the floor with them they will play for a short time but the minute I get up to change a diaper, use the washroom myself or prep a meal, they completely go wild and abandon all the toys, THAT is how I know that their parents play with them all the time. I also have a group of 5 boys right now and I find that they are much harder to keep occupied than the mixed group I had a couple of years ago. JMO