I have a daycare story from when DS was around eight months. I had a friend whose son is very close to the same age and was at the same daycare. One day I was a little later than usual at the daycare and our boys were the only ones left in the room. My son was being fussy and the teacher (not his usual teacher) was having trouble getting him to settle down. When my friend came to pick up her son and saw that DS was giving the teacher trouble, she told her to show him a book (clearly she knew DS well). The teacher thought this was crazy talk, but figured she shouldn't contradict a parent of a child in the daycare, so she tried it. DS instantly calmed down and was quiet and happy for the teacher (and for me for the rest of the evening).
When he was a few months older and had moved up to the next room, they had to put his designated nap location next to the bookshelf. Otherwise, he would crawl right over the top of other napping kids in order to reach the books when he woke up.
