Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[staceyj]

It probably sounds condescending, but I always go for the children's books. Also great if you have to do a research paper. They get all the info out there w/o any of the bs filler that they stuff into adult books. Now I'm excited to go find another library person!

The OP posted the question yesterday and a few people responded but she hasn't come back.
Maybe she didn't think she'd get any feedback.

 

[apryl29]

She may not have worked yesterday. I get emails when someone comments on a post that I watch/ comment on/ or create. Nowadays most library people are part time unless it's a big library. Where I work 90% of the people are part time and when a non mgmt fulltime person retires they replace them w/ 2 part time people. It sucks for staff, but it's nice for staffing b/c our full time is 37.5 hrs and you get more work time from 2 - 20 hr people, plus then they don't have to offer insurance. It was different years ago, but we had better funding (we're totally state funded, no levy). I was here for 14 years before I finally got full time. It was stupid b/c I was working 25 hrs in 1 position and 10 hrs in another but b/c I was 2 different library systems (we're a consortium) I didn't get benefits. They finally combined my jobs 4 years ago & made me full time so I got insurance & benefits. Library land is a strange place to work. 2 buildings in the same system are like 2 different worlds.

 

[staceyj]

She may not have worked yesterday. I get emails when someone comments on a post that I watch/ comment on/ or create. Nowadays most library people are part time unless it's a big library. Where I work 90% of the people are part time and when a non mgmt fulltime person retires they replace them w/ 2 part time people. It sucks for staff, but it's nice for staffing b/c our full time is 37.5 hrs and you get more work time from 2 - 20 hr people, plus then they don't have to offer insurance. It was different years ago, but we had better funding (we're totally state funded, no levy). I was here for 14 years before I finally got full time. It was stupid b/c I was working 25 hrs in 1 position and 10 hrs in another but b/c I was 2 different library systems (we're a consortium) I didn't get benefits. They finally combined my jobs 4 years ago & made me full time so I got insurance & benefits. Library land is a strange place to work. 2 buildings in the same system are like 2 different worlds.

That's awful! I love libraries and getting a new library card whenever we've moved has always been a big thrill for me. Happy to say that I raised 3 voracious readers and 1 not so... but there's still time for her. Lol.
She goes to community college, works and babysits a lot.
At least she gets it that reading to children is important because she'll comment when she starts babysitting for a new family and "judges" them on certain criteria.
Such as do the kids have lots of books?
Are they good books?
And do they get read to at home?
She always reads to them.

 

[staceyj]

She may not have worked yesterday. I get emails when someone comments on a post that I watch/ comment on/ or create. Nowadays most library people are part time unless it's a big library. Where I work 90% of the people are part time and when a non mgmt fulltime person retires they replace them w/ 2 part time people. It sucks for staff, but it's nice for staffing b/c our full time is 37.5 hrs and you get more work time from 2 - 20 hr people, plus then they don't have to offer insurance. It was different years ago, but we had better funding (we're totally state funded, no levy). I was here for 14 years before I finally got full time. It was stupid b/c I was working 25 hrs in 1 position and 10 hrs in another but b/c I was 2 different library systems (we're a consortium) I didn't get benefits. They finally combined my jobs 4 years ago & made me full time so I got insurance & benefits. Library land is a strange place to work. 2 buildings in the same system are like 2 different worlds.

Title of that thread in case you're interested is, good books on raising chickens for people who don't read well. OPname Costello

 

[apryl29]

That's awful! I love libraries and getting a new library card whenever we've moved has always been a big thrill for me. Happy to say that I raised 3 voracious readers and 1 not so... but there's still time for her. Lol.
She goes to community college, works and babysits a lot.
At least she gets it that reading to children is important because she'll comment when she starts babysitting for a new family and "judges" them on certain criteria.
Such as do the kids have lots of books?
Are they good books?
And do they get read to at home?
She always reads to them.

I worked w/ a guy who collects library cards! He worked w/ our regional library so whenever he went to visit a library he'd get a card. Not sure how many he had, but it was a lot.
My kids love to read too, but it was a struggle w/ my oldest. We have a thing here called Title One for kids who have difficulties/ lack of interest. The guy was good & really helped her a lot. Both were reading at a hs level in elementary. It gets hard b/c higher level books have a lot of adult situations. There's a book that I recommend to EVERYONE (except small children). It's simultaneously the best and worst book I ever read. It's called We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart. My daughter hated me for telling her to read it, then told her friends to read it. lol It's not a 'read in public' kind of book.
If your daughter is reading to kids then it's at least something. I think a lot of people stop reading after they're out of school b/c they're so used to someone telling them what to read that they don't get to discover what they like to read and have no idea where to go from there. Then there's having time to read. I'll take home piles of books and might read one. I have 6 on my table right now that I thought looked good, but I'll probably only read one of them. It took my 6 weeks to read the last one and then stayed up all night to finished it b/c it got really good and I couldn't put it down. I read a lot of YA b/c I started reading books to make sure they were ok for my kids, & found it's more interesting to me. Hell, I read juvinile books too. Like the entire How To Train Your Dragon series, waited impatiently for the last book, then sat in the movie theater and was like That's not how it was in the books!
All kids should have access books. I have tons of books my kids have outgrown, but keep them for sentimental reasons. I've passed a lot on to the daycare. I'm that person who gives books to people when they have a baby. Everyone thinks of tiny outfits, diapers and bottles, no one gets books.

 

[Sassysouth]

That's awful! I love libraries and getting a new library card whenever we've moved has always been a big thrill for me. Happy to say that I raised 3 voracious readers and 1 not so... but there's still time for her. Lol.
She goes to community college, works and babysits a lot.
At least she gets it that reading to children is important because she'll comment when she starts babysitting for a new family and "judges" them on certain criteria.
Such as do the kids have lots of books?
Are they good books?
And do they get read to at home?
She always reads to them.

That’s funny that she judges them on their books!! My 2 nieces read like no one I have ever seen. I do not like to read and never have. My son enjoys reading, but doesn’t make it a priority all the time.

 

[staceyj]

Oh I am the book gifter as well!
(And an unsuccessful aspiring author, except for an adult piece in a literary journal)

I am such a supporter of getting books into kids hands that I often buy the good ones when I see them at yardsales then donate them to the homeless shelter downtown.
I had to take my kids to the health department to record their immunization records one time years ago in a town we'd moved to.
Knowing that we'd probably have to wait a while I had a couple of books with me.
Wow. That place was packed.

I still remember the book.
Jacqueline Woodson's
WE HAD A PICNIC THIS SUNDAY PAST.

truly one of the best read-alouds ever.

I started reading it quietly.
Then I saw a few kids perk up their ears and move a little closer.
So I brought my voice up a notch and held the book out so they could see the illustrations.

By the time we got to the end I had a group of about 20 kids who didn't belong to me crowded close around.

Some were really young pregnant teenagers who were there for their checkups, but they moved in for the story too.

The little kids in the group begged me to read it again even though they had just heard it!

So I did!

Still think it's a very precious book.

 

[staceyj]

That’s funny that she judges them on their books!! My 2 nieces read like no one I have ever seen. I do not like to read and never have. My son enjoys reading, but doesn’t make it a priority all the time.

My husband is not a reader. He says he gets all his reading in at work!

 

[staceyj]

But sassy. You are reading here!
Probably a high word count every day without even thinking about it.

ALL reading counts!

 

[staceyj]

That’s funny that she judges them on their books!! My 2 nieces read like no one I have ever seen. I do not like to read and never have. My son enjoys reading, but doesn’t make it a priority all the time.

And she judges them because reading before bedtime is part of her babysitting routine.
Many of the families she babysits for require it.
So therefore she hates it if they don't have good books to choose from since she's the one who has to read it!