When you work at a public library you see all kinds of people from all walks of life. You also get to see different kinds of parenting practices in action. I have personally decided never to have children due in part from my experiences working in public libraries. I am also leaning toward the idea that perhaps it would be a good idea to make people get a license to reproduce based on several pychiatric evaluations.
Their are several types of parenting practices that we see here at SoCal that I think are universal:
Chicken Parents: those parents who threaten their kids with reprisals from the Staff as incentive to behave. ex. "If you don't stop that the librarian will make us leave!"
Bribing Parents: parents who buy whatever the brat wants in order to stop the screaming tantrum.
Invisible Internet Parents: those parents who use the internet to the exclusion of all else.
We had a mother we call Dreadlock Lady who had toddler in a stroller taking a small hammer to one of our CPU's and another child about 10 who placed a book on the floor and started stomping on it. (I kid thee not)
Absentee Parents: those parents who think it's okay to send their underage brood to the library because it's such a safe place when in fact it's probably Pedophile Central.
Nominee's for Dysfunctional Parents of the All Time:
A couple of years ago a woman left her 3 and 5 year old daughters at the library one Saturday so that she could go shopping.
Woman thought it would be okay to leave her infant in the car with the windows rolled down in summer while she visited the library.
A man and his wife came into the library with their three year old daughter and wanted to know if it would be okay to leave her in the library so that she could play with other kids Sephi one of my coworkers said she lost all faith in humanity at that point.
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