warned

Well, it's been one heck of a day. Of course my boss is gone, which is when all incidents seem to happen. It’s too bad I can’t say that this time it’s only a broken window or some graffiti on the walls. It’s not even that someone fell or got hurt in the library. I only wish it was something that simple. I can't really say much about it except that I have been accused of doing something that I did not do. Administration does not seem too worried about it, and say that it's just a small thing that will disappear from my record in a few months. I'm not worried about my career, or my reputation, but am definitely worried about society as a whole. When something like this can happen, and does regularly, there's something very wrong.
Librarians are very much in the same shoes as schoolteachers when it comes to correcting a child. Which is to say that we have our hands tied, tightly. It does not matter what the child is doing, who they are endangering, the child is correct and not to be reprimanded. When did our society turn itself over to the wolves? Cause I missed it. I would've moved off the planet. In fact I think I will. Anyone need a librarian at a very rural library?
I have a nine year old child and absolutely do not allow him to run his world the way some children are allowed to do. If my child acted like the one I attempted to correct today I would have thanked anyone who stepped in to get his attention and correct his behavior in the way I did today.

I was trying to avoid making all 4 kids leave the library, but in retrospect I guess that is exactly what I should have done.

I asked just what I was supposed to do about the just-walking kids who are heading out the door unaccompanied, parents nowhere in sight? Let them toddle out into the street and get hit by a car? What about the 4 and 5 year old kids in my story times who walk in the door and straight to me to give me a hug? Should I repel them as well? Say “I can’t touch you”? What kind of atmosphere would that create for those kids?

When did we begin to encourage children to lie? To make more out of a situation than it’s worth? To prosecute at the slightest provocation?

They make more out of a situation, fabricate and create things that did not happen, and press their case beyond reasonable satisfaction. I really don’t understand this outlook on life. You are not on this planet for others to be afraid of you. You are on this planet to help and serve where you are able. When did common sense take leave of the planet? Are there any normal folks left anywhere with any bit of common sense? Any bit of decency? Anyone? Anywhere?