My advice for new children’s librarians would be to only wear “machine wash” clothing to work at the public library. I discovered this the day the kindergartner locked herself into the bathroom stall in the public bathroom during their class visit to the library. Since her teacher was a man, he wasn’t comfortable going into the woman’s room to rescue her. So guess who got to wriggle under the stall to calm the crying girl and unlock the door? Nothing like contact with the floor of a public bathroom and your dry-clean-only blouse to change your shopping patterns…
Jennifer Duffy
Tina
I know this is a bit of a late comment, but what about the glitter glue rule? During a Teddy Bear Picnic, one three year old managed to accidentally overturn both a glitter shaker and a glue bottle at the same time! It took til August (three months later) and some aggressive cleaning to remove the last of the sparkles from the plastic table. The child’s craft, however, turned out beautifully, which is really all that matters.
grace O.
what was the story about the glue again?