I'm in a quandary about whether to change to a childminder. My son, nearly 22 months, has been in nursery (2 days p/w) for 5 weeks. He has adapted to it to some extent, and is able to enjoy some activities, and mostly not crying except briefly on drop off. However, I'm not confident he is happy and secure there. In general the nursery has fallen below my expectations as an care environment. In the early days I once overheard his key worker shouting sternly at him, 'You're happy!" when he was crying in quite a distressed way. Now he is biting staff (not children, just adults), he does bite us sometimes, it's usually linked to him needing to release emotions, but the staff see it as naughty and yesterday talked about him in a negative way re. biting on pick up. Obviously biting is difficult and we need to encourage him to find other ways to express emotions, but so far I feel the staff lack emotional attunement to the kids. His key worker is not reliably around for him - sometimes they have her working in another room if they are short-staffed. I'm regretting choosing nursery as an option and think it would be better for my son to have the stability that a childminder could offer, so that he was always being cared for by the same person. The biting would probably still be an issue, but if I could find the right person who might have a better approach with it that might help. My quandary is particularly about the upheaval involved for him if I do take him out of nursery and place him with a childminder instead. As I said, he has gone some way to settling at nursery. Has anyone else changed the childcare setting? How did it go? I'd be very grateful for any wisdom on this.