Changing childminder - will DS adapt?

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Hi all,

We will be moving house in a few months and I am just concerned about how my 21 mo DS will deal with the change in childcare. He currently goes to a childminder that he loves.. he is the 2nd youngest kid with her and he loves playing with the older children. There are days when I go to pick him up and all he wants to do is stay back with her and play some more!

We will have to find a new childminder when we move as the new house will be a bit too far to continue with the current childminder... I just keep thinking how DS will adapt and I am feeling very bad that he will no longer be able to see his friends. He is too young to express himself, but I know he is attached to the childminder and all the kids and also her rabbit...

Am I over thinking this? I know DS will be fine eventually, but it just breaks my heart to take him away from the existing childminder...

Would love to hear from people who have been in the same situation.... just need some reassurance I guess...

TIA :)

Children are alarmingly fickle, he'll have forgotten all about the childminder and his friends in a couple of months! As long as the new childminder is lovely, he'll be completely fine.

Ditto Leeds. Kids are very fickle - they may adore a cm /nanny but try will also love and adore another one

Kids also do things differently for others

Ie temp job I'm in I was told 4yr only eats white bread and filling no butter and doesn't wipe his bottom

A week with me he eat brown buttered ham sandwich and now can wipe his bottom - he needed to learn as starts school in sept

Your ds will be fine and make new friends

And if he likes the rabbit so much maybe think about getting one as a pet?

Hi all,

Thanks for the encouraging replies :)