Re: Librarians, was RE: [SG] HAMR

John Crimmins wrote:

>It's the younger ones, the preschoolers, who makes the job worthwhile.
>Pure enthusiasm, they actually *care* about learning and reading and
such.
>A few years of school tends to beat that out of most of them, alas.

Amazing how some of us never lose it, or manage to regain it.

>But I've found it impossible to do a storytime for infants or toddlers
and
>walk away in a bad mood, so long as I remember the two cardinal rules:
>
>1) Keep expectations low -- you'll get everyone's attention at some
point,
>but never at the same time.
>
>and 2) Tape the light switches in the "on" position.  'cause trying to
>navigate through a dark room filled with two year old children is like
>something out of a Hitchcock film.

Thank you, you have just brightened my day.

3B^2

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