For anyone suffering from some form of delusion that my household is always as peaceful as a sunset over an ocean, allow me to shatter that dream.
I really don’t know what I was thinking. Yes, I had a book and Downton Abbey Season 2 to return to the library. But why did I think it would turn out any better than the last dozen times we left in disgrace?
One hour, two crafts, and about a million dirty looks later, I slunk back to the car with one grumpy child and one child screaming “I WANTED TO PUSH THE BUTTON!!!!!!!!” (You know, the Automatic/Handicap door button, the one that bestows a thrill unrivaled for the lucky person who gets to push it.) He continued screaming as we drove home and through lunch, when he decided that opening the garage door once wasn’t enough, he needed to do it at least once more.
He’s now napping peacefully, but I’m not sure I’ll be taking him back there any time soon.
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My kids don’t tend to behave at those sorts of things either, so now I just plan on going for no longer than a half hour, TOPS.
A whole hour for toddler story time? Ours is 20 minutes for the 1-3 year olds and that is about all we could probably handle. When Peyt was around 3 1/2 she threw a screaming fit in a Wendy’s over wearing her hat when it was around 20 degrees outside (which is very very cold for us GA people).
Technically it’s 45 minutes, but then we had to play with the toys in the kids area after story time. Whew…
Primarily the reason I have yet to attempt something like that with my kids. Visions of this…haha
Yesterday waiting in line for a pretzel, elle was demanding an icee over lemonade. It took forever and sev people behind us. The lady waiting on us had had enough and slammed our cheese on counter after she forgot it. Oh well at least we know they dont always act like that.
Toddler Story time is only for parents with one toddler/preschooler or multiple adults per family. I tried to take all three of my guys once, not only had story time NOT started back up yet, but they tried to pull every kids book off the shelf in the children’s section and then I had the impossible task of pulling them away from the train table by the front doors. *shutters* NEVER AGAIN.
Ha! Emily, I have an amazing visual of an angry lady slamming cheese down on the counter!
I think libraries should have a full separate wing for their children’s activities. I always feel like such a jerk because other people, adults, are there and expect it to be quiet.
Don’t even get me started on the time Miles got shushed at the library…
We had a total screaming fit at the library one evening. It was humiliating. I left all our stuff there and took Nora out to the lobby (between two sets of doors) and calmed her down, but the moment we walked back into the “quiet zone” she started crying loudly again. Not my finest parenting moment, but I gave her a sucker and it shut her up long enough to check out our books :S