Category: mothers

• May the Fourth Be With You: 2013

  May 4th is on a Saturday next year and so help me, I’ll be planning and implementing a large scale, fun for the whole family “May the Fourth Be With You” Star Wars nerdamondium party that will be so awesome I may just explode. Other libraries have done it with much success. You can get…

  Miss Julie

  May 24, 2012

  awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, fathers, kids, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, library spaces, mothers, OPINIONS!, participation, programming, scifi, technology, teens, toddlers, video games, weirdnesss for the sake of weirdness

  community, star wars, technology, yoda

• Muffins with Mom

  Years ago, at one of my first library jobs, I had a weekend morning program that I called “Doughnuts with Dad.” I believe it was around father’s day, but it might not have been. All I did was brew some coffee, buy some doughnuts and juice, gussy up the tables with some table cloths, throw…

  Miss Julie

  May 13, 2012

  artsncrafts, awesomeness, be the best you can be, events, Librarians, librarians…for TEENS!, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, libraries now!, mothers, OPINIONS!, participation, personal experience, professional development, programming

  community, food, gadgets, librarian, love, mothers

• Listen, I’m Telling You Stories

  Funerals are not for the dead, they are for the living. They are for those left behind, to act as a comforting play in which we know all the roles and there is no twist in the second act. My mother would have hated her own funeral. It was a maudlin, religious, church bound affair,…

  Miss Julie

  May 3, 2012

  be the best you can be, bibliotherapy, largely unsubstantiated, mothers, OPINIONS!, personal experience, stories

  love, mama cass, mothers, music, songs

• if you liked “not just cute”…

  …here is another child development/early childhood blog that you might find interesting and useful: Janet Lansbury, Elevating Childcare (and, yes, she is somewhat related to Angela Lansbury).  Here’s her introduction/description: Raising a child is one the most important and challenging jobs we will ever have. It brings a considerable amount of joy. It can also…

  Miss Julie

  September 20, 2010

  be the best you can be, early childhood, early literacy, fathers, kids, mothers

• summer reading.

  I have a complex relationship with the institution of summer reading. I never participated in summer reading as a child, which may explain my lack of zealous enthusiasm for it. I do see its value, and I do love that it gets kids into the library, but there is something about the entire exercise that…

  Miss Julie

  May 15, 2010

  be the best you can be, books, early literacy, fathers, kids, Librarians, librarians…for the CHILDREN!, literacy, mothers, participation, preschool, professional development, reading, reading programs, storytime, summer reading