Comments on: Smile, please. http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/ Mom Fashion, Kid Fashion, Mom Beauty, Mom Fashion Tips Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:36:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Chrissy http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1976 Chrissy Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:28:33 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1976 How funny. I've never noticed that. (Although I bet I will now!) But it's sad, really. Anyone who works in a library should LOVE kids. Children should be inspired to learn to love reading, after all! How funny. I’ve never noticed that. (Although I bet I will now!) But it’s sad, really. Anyone who works in a library should LOVE kids. Children should be inspired to learn to love reading, after all!

]]> By: Emily http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1975 Emily Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:55:27 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1975 We called the librarian at my high school "Conan the Librarian" and "Attila with the Bun." She did just about everything she could to make the library the absolute LAST place any of us wanted to be. We called the librarian at my high school “Conan the Librarian” and “Attila with the Bun.” She did just about everything she could to make the library the absolute LAST place any of us wanted to be.

]]> By: Jenn Silva http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1974 Jenn Silva Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:21:05 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1974 Sharon- That is so true! A few months ago, Jack came home from school on library day with "The Life and Times of Grover Cleveland". (Sidebar: seriously, he is in first grade, I have no idea where he comes from) He proceeded to tell me that the librarian wouldn't let him take out a book from the non-fiction area because he was only in 1st grade. To which I replied "but that is non-fiction, so how did you get it?" Alas, I was schooled by my 7 year old when he replied, "Mom, you told me you went to college. This is not non-fiction, it is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY!" very funny..... Sharon- That is so true! A few months ago, Jack came home from school on library day with “The Life and Times of Grover Cleveland”. (Sidebar: seriously, he is in first grade, I have no idea where he comes from) He proceeded to tell me that the librarian wouldn’t let him take out a book from the non-fiction area because he was only in 1st grade. To which I replied “but that is non-fiction, so how did you get it?” Alas, I was schooled by my 7 year old when he replied, “Mom, you told me you went to college. This is not non-fiction, it is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY!” very funny…..

]]> By: Heather http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1973 Heather Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:47:12 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1973 Add me to the list of those who love your new pic...Jane and Audrey's too! This story reminded me of my elementary school librarian. Not because she's one of the bad but because she was so amazing. She had a tough look to her. Short jet black hair that was perfectly permed. Long pink fingernails at the end of thin wrinkled fingers whose tips were covered in ink from the frequent stamping of books. She loved to read aloud to us and I remember so well sitting at her feet (I always wanted to be on the front row so I could take it all in!) and being comepletely taken with her ability to bring a book to life. As I got older and started to play "school", I would imitate her the best I could. I can still see the way she held the book open for us to see as she read. Most amazing was the way she seemed to never even need to look at the words because she'd been at this for so long, she knew the words by heart. I recently read a story about her in my hometown newspaper and just like as I read this story, I smiled at the memories. Perhaps she has a great deal to do with my love of books! Add me to the list of those who love your new pic…Jane and Audrey’s too!

This story reminded me of my elementary school librarian. Not because she’s one of the bad but because she was so amazing. She had a tough look to her. Short jet black hair that was perfectly permed. Long pink fingernails at the end of thin wrinkled fingers whose tips were covered in ink from the frequent stamping of books. She loved to read aloud to us and I remember so well sitting at her feet (I always wanted to be on the front row so I could take it all in!) and being comepletely taken with her ability to bring a book to life. As I got older and started to play “school”, I would imitate her the best I could. I can still see the way she held the book open for us to see as she read. Most amazing was the way she seemed to never even need to look at the words because she’d been at this for so long, she knew the words by heart. I recently read a story about her in my hometown newspaper and just like as I read this story, I smiled at the memories. Perhaps she has a great deal to do with my love of books!

]]> By: Erin http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1972 Erin Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:26:31 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1972 I love the new picture! This is so true. The librarian at our school is AWFUL. She yells at the kids, the teachers, anyone who crosses her path. She closes down the library NINE days before the end of the school year, even though our kids must get reading points for a GPA-counted grade. Oh, and she loathes me so much that she actually trash talks me to the kids, which I find pretty hilarious. But what I don't find hilarious is how she acts as though it puts her out when a child goes in to get a book. If they are in there several times a week checking out new books, instead of celebrating how much they're reading, she says they are abusing library privileges and kicks them out! It makes you wonder why these people become librarians if they hate kids so much. I love the new picture!
This is so true. The librarian at our school is AWFUL. She yells at the kids, the teachers, anyone who crosses her path. She closes down the library NINE days before the end of the school year, even though our kids must get reading points for a GPA-counted grade. Oh, and she loathes me so much that she actually trash talks me to the kids, which I find pretty hilarious. But what I don’t find hilarious is how she acts as though it puts her out when a child goes in to get a book. If they are in there several times a week checking out new books, instead of celebrating how much they’re reading, she says they are abusing library privileges and kicks them out! It makes you wonder why these people become librarians if they hate kids so much.

]]> By: Jennifer (Savor) http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1971 Jennifer (Savor) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:02:21 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1971 It is so true. Our library is about to undergo a renovation and and children see all the commotion and change coming and are curious. When I bothered asking the children's librarian to explain to us (me and the 2 kiddos) about the construction she glared and rudley pointed to an architectual map on the wall and said, 'read about it over there'. Thanks curmudgeon, find a new job. Okay, no that I told my story: I love how resourceful and excited some librarians can get when you ask for help. It is so true. Our library is about to undergo a renovation and and children see all the commotion and change coming and are curious. When I bothered asking the children’s librarian to explain to us (me and the 2 kiddos) about the construction she glared and rudley pointed to an architectual map on the wall and said, ‘read about it over there’. Thanks curmudgeon, find a new job. Okay, no that I told my story: I love how resourceful and excited some librarians can get when you ask for help.

]]> By: Lisa http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1970 Lisa Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:07:47 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1970 I love your new picture! I had to laugh at this post, because I was at a graduation party the other day, and recognized someone. I turned to my girls and whispered, "It's the mean library lady!" To which a friend standing nearby heard and said, "I thought that was her." Why do people who so evidently dislike children find jobs which involve children? Did they start out liking them and one day a switch flipped? Or was it a slow fade? A wearing down of their general love for childre? Just some thoughts from my overtaxed brain. I had to let you know we have a grumpy library lady! I love your new picture! I had to laugh at this post, because I was at a graduation party the other day, and recognized someone. I turned to my girls and whispered, “It’s the mean library lady!” To which a friend standing nearby heard and said, “I thought that was her.”
Why do people who so evidently dislike children find jobs which involve children? Did they start out liking them and one day a switch flipped? Or was it a slow fade? A wearing down of their general love for childre? Just some thoughts from my overtaxed brain. I had to let you know we have a grumpy library lady!

]]> By: Bacardi Mama http://momgenerations.com/2009/06/smile-please/comment-page-1/#comment-1969 Bacardi Mama Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:11:29 +0000 http://www.momgenerations.com/blogs/sharon/?p=433#comment-1969 Great post and I love the new photo! Great post and I love the new photo!

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