lostonearth35 wrote:
At one time the rule was "children should be seen and not heard". Now it's like every public place has to be a day-care center. You'd think they'd set limits at a library.
Yeah, I hate how every place these days have to be part daycare center. It was far better in the time only a few decades ago when parents were expected to keep their kids in check. If they can't (let's face it, kids have minds of their own and won't always obey even when the parents are there), then they should be made to leave. There should be no diplomacy in that. Libraries are meant to be quiet. It doesn't matter that the parents have lives too; other library users should not suffer because someone have kids.
And as someone pointed out, it can be teens on phones and adults too, and they should be shown the door as well. Quiet shouldn't be restricted to age groups in either dirention. If you can't be quiet while there, goodbye. Easy-peasy.
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And most kids these days already know how to swear, they just stop when they see an adult coming.
To be fair, that's not new at all. I picked up two strong swear words from other kids in my daycare before the age of 3 and used it to get a rise out of adults because I saw the reaction it got in daycare.
In elementary school we used the S word a lot among ourselves. And teens have certainly not had a problem with swearing since my time in the 90's.