[Publib] a fresh, new nugget for people to chew on about how libraries....

[Phalbe Henriksen]

At 06:48 PM 2/1/2008, Sue Kamm wrote:
>Saw that.  It's an excellent argument why people shouldn't let their 
>children go to the library unsupervised.

Yeah. But it's more than that. It's about why people shouldn't go to 
the library to do something (like get on the internet) and totally 
ignore their child/children. (Or go anywhere else and totally ignore 
their child/children.)

I don't think this is just about "we don't act in loco parentis" that 
librarians have to accept, given the open nature of libraries and the 
staffing levels. I think it's a much broader societal problem of 
parents taking their children wherever they need to go and then not 
supervising them. It seems to be rampant. And the people that get 
"blamed" never seem to be the parents.

Phalbe
still at home