I've been going to a playgroup with my toddler for a while and there's usually several childminders there each with about 3 children on average. They are hardly ever anywhere near the children they're looking after, they don't play with them or give them any attention. I frequently see them get hurt in some way through tripping or another child scratches them or similar and they're crying and people around have to say who is this child with, and they eventually come and get them. The childminders mostly just sit and drink coffee, chat to each other, and occasionally come over to take a photo to show the parents who I guess are none the wiser to them being so unsupervised. Is this typical of childminders? My family provide childcare currently but we will soon need to consider other care and I was keen on childminders over nursery but this behaviour is really putting me off. Keen to hear other people's opinions!