Tuesday, February 19, 2008

For some time now I've been pondering the children's room. Today I was reminded about an idea I had for it. I was thinking we need to add 2-4 adult pcs to that room. As you know we have folks with under 7's who come soley to get online. They also need to keep their children with them. Barring the issue of inappropriate web searching near kids, and kids getting on them, and the need to get rid of a whole bunch of books, the only other thought I had was that if the parent is using the pc's just outside of the room, is that close enough? I am sure that once adults are online, they are oblivious to their kids. On the other hand, if the children are quiet and not in jeopardy, could we say that this proximity meets the criteria of being near the parent? Posting the unattended child flyer at the computers could be a first alert for parents who read our flyers, and maybe just alerting them to it would be enough if they remained at those particular terminals. This is not to take parenting responsibilities away from parents as we are not responsible for their children, but it may ease some tension and still let them know they are to be incharge of their children while they are here.

holla back on this.


1 comment:

Ms Grace said...

As a member of the Shepard Team. I am so proud to be a part of this wonderful staff.

More to come!

Grace