The kids wanted to go to the library yesterday--yes, I said kidS, as in They Boy also wanted to go to the library {gasp}--but I digress. The kids wanted to go to the library yesterday, so I took them after school.
Apparently they have a renewed interest in art and drawing. The Girl was showing The Boy about shading to make your apple, fruit basket, or razor-taloned-laser-eyed-crime-fighting hawk more realistic. They each checked out several drawing books.
While I was browsing and milling about, I was also watching a brood of kids that seemingly had been abandoned at the library by their parent. They were happy kids, clearly from the raucous levels of squealing and yelling out to one another and laughing all over the main floor.
They were sitting and jumping and standing near the computers. They were touching and fiddling and pressing buttons there too.
Then I mosied to the audio book section and kids near there were flipping and scrunching the pages throughout some beautiful reference type books (you know, the large, heavy, filled with fantastic photography and too expensive for you or me to replace should something happen to it).
I could feel my blood pressure rising and my breathing accelerating and my fists balling with my nails digging into the flesh of my palms. I wanted to scream "STOP THE INSANITY! THIS IS A LIBRARY, YOU FREAKS!", but I refrained.
Yes, there actually was a mother there with at least part of the kids--but the worried looks from the lovely librarians told me the mother had already left her post or surrendered her job completely.
So, am I wound too tight, or am I just hyper conscientious?
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I learned a long time ago that not every mother has the same level of attendance to their children while in public. I can see why you were worried - I would have been too. I would leave that feeling at the library and rest knowing that your kids, whether attended or not, would NOT act the same way.
Loud noise in the library is ANNOYING! The librarians told me if I am bothered to tell them and they will talk to the offenders. They don't always hear everything from their desk.
And why do parents drop their kids off at the library/toys department and come back later for them??
YOU are NOT wound too tight! Id've slapped 'em! (Well maybe not...)
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