LOL. My library mistake.

[quaz]

Thought ya guys would get a laugh.

I went to get playful parenting at the library (good book so far), since I hadn't read it yet. I also wanted to read raising your spirited child again... since my youngest is HN. I grabbed the book, and left. Well, I got home and started skimming it to find the parts I wanted to reread, and thinking... UH, this is NOT right...

I had grabbed The strong-willed child, by James Dobson, NOT raising your spirited child. :LOL
Kinda a big difference.

[writermommy]

Burn it. You'll be helping moms who don't know any better.

[flyingspaghettimama]

Originally Posted by writermommy

Burn it. You'll be helping moms who don't know any better.

I'm SURE you're joking but Nooooo! Don't burn books! My librarian ears are on fire! It's state property and belongs to everyone, and you don't want Dobson lovers to burn Sears...and, and...if a person burned it or hurt it they'd have to order another...and...my librarian ears are on fire!

I mean, the library also probably has Mein Kampf. We have a wide variety books on the continuum of evil. It is very good to be able to check out the books (instead of buying/browsing at the bookstore) so you can have a reasoned, well-informed argument against Dobson, Ezzo, etc. Better to have someone check it out from the library and throw it down in disgust, and return it, than to accidentally buy one and add to Dobson's pockets...

Trust me, radical christian evangelicals were always checking out books at our library and destroying them - ones on being gay, ones on "liberal" childrearing (such as Sears), ones on being mormon, jewish, or anything but their denomination...it was really a big problem, actually.

[writermommy]

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Of course, I was kidding. I would never, actually burn a book. I don't believe in censorship. Everyone has the right to his own opinion, no matter how misguided.

[flyingspaghettimama]

Some people also buy extra copies of AP books to donate to the library, so that there are more of them, or available at all. Did you know how many AP/GD books there are? A LOT. And I ordered every single one of them when I was doing ordering...