And we won't discuss that librarians are not a substitute for day care....
Tell me about it! The other day I had a mother come in to use the computer. She brought a long her three small children (call it age 2, 3, and 4). She turned them loose in the children's room and went to work on the computer. The kids raised hell. She screamed at them a couple of times. When they left, I went into the kid's room. A full 1/3 of the books (we have about 1,000 children's books) were scattered on the floor. On one side of the room was a stack of thirty or forty children's video cases. On the other side were the tapes that belonged in those cases. We have a monopoly game and a clue game for the kids. They had gotten both down (from the top of a six-foot shelf) and threw the contents across the room.