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This past week I took my DCK to a reptile exhibit at the library. One of my DCM also went with us.
We get to the meeting area and it's really full, so we all squeeze to the front of the room and sit down. There is a man standing at the front of the room who is going to be holding the show.
After being there for about 3 minutes, I am so taken back by the host of the show that I almost left.
The man that was hosting the show was not a "child friendly" person at all. 3 min into us sitting, he must have yelled at 3-5 different children to sit down and shut up! Yes he said shut up...
He then went on to say: I have *** amount of animals to show you, but if you are not quite you can sit there and waste your own time. there will be no standing, no talking, no questions, no this, no that, no no no.
So the show finally starts and 1 min into it the man stops and starts yelling who's child is this, you need to come get your child right now, they are blocking my walk way. This happens again about 3-4 more times in less than a 5 min. Period.
He also told some stories that were way inappropriate for children. The DCM looked at me like what are we doing here. I was so shocked that our library would allow for such a person to conduct and host a show for children.
It was much worse than I can explain, would you call the library and complain? Or would you say nothing?
We get to the meeting area and it's really full, so we all squeeze to the front of the room and sit down. There is a man standing at the front of the room who is going to be holding the show.
After being there for about 3 minutes, I am so taken back by the host of the show that I almost left.
The man that was hosting the show was not a "child friendly" person at all. 3 min into us sitting, he must have yelled at 3-5 different children to sit down and shut up! Yes he said shut up...
He then went on to say: I have *** amount of animals to show you, but if you are not quite you can sit there and waste your own time. there will be no standing, no talking, no questions, no this, no that, no no no.
So the show finally starts and 1 min into it the man stops and starts yelling who's child is this, you need to come get your child right now, they are blocking my walk way. This happens again about 3-4 more times in less than a 5 min. Period.
He also told some stories that were way inappropriate for children. The DCM looked at me like what are we doing here. I was so shocked that our library would allow for such a person to conduct and host a show for children.
It was much worse than I can explain, would you call the library and complain? Or would you say nothing?
I would definitely call them ASAP! I would tell them how disappointed I was and that I expected a more professional AND child friendly person. I think anyone who takes an exhibit and such into a public library needs to have some patience and know how to speak to children. I would also add that I would not be bringing my daycare children back to anything that he is a part of due to his lack of courtesy and disrespect of the children. Sure it's ok to ask them to sit down and be quiet but not bark at them and use the words shut up! What if 1 of those children go home and tell a parent to shut up? Oh no u can bet your bootie I would be calling and giving them my 2 cents.
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