we're here to bring you all the information that you need to know about your local library your services department house that yes that's correct right into your home yeah you don't necessarily have to be here you're just going to get the information about why you want to be per like i said this could go into like four parts but this is going to be it so we'll go through some of these family that we're going to make it into two parts family and cajun is a shared responsibility we were talking about how families can be involved in their children's  educational needs and goals that and how the library is available to help them be part of that family and gauge men is about developing the knowledge attitudes values and behaviors that enable children to be enthusiastic and successful learners in libraries this means having respect for partnerships with families and providing information guidance and opportunities for families to be active in their children's learning and development and that's what we are we try to help you really are you guys you like that active active all right and also i like this because i think a lot of times families think that the most important years in a child's educational you know needs are birth through no late elementary in here they're talking about i'm not watching you because i know you're yawning i'm not right a young adulthood family engagement in learning helps children get ready for school succeed in school graduate and go on to college and careers children benefit when parents provide direct support such as co reading books using digital media together parents help provide motivation and structure for homework after school programs extracurricular activities and then i like this in the middle in middle and high school family members encourage teens to make thoughtful decisions about the use of media and take responsibility for their actions so we have to we have to keep we're working with the kids you know sometimes th i've heard parents say things like oh you know they don't they don't need me around anymore they don't need this and sometimes especially in high schools when they need you more you know where you see that like and that tough years of middle school and you feel like they don't because they're not elementary but you need to have just a strong not a grasp but a strong just be very in tune with them as you are with your kids when they're younger oh this was sad each year children spend one thousand of their six thousand waking hours in school that's a lot well i mean that's basically what we do in a job but it's a mean that's you know so again you know helping children how do you navigate through all of this you know how important are the families for you know to support the children's language literacy and reading abilities and that the home environment impacts children's even like mathematical developments you know and all the activities that you could do for that families offered children families are there and offer trojan opportunities to explore and cultivate their interests which i would always i never forced my children into doing one thing or another as far as an activity but i tried to expose them to as much as i could basically to see what would stick you know what what would they be most interested in not what do i think they should be most interested in and do you know and work just fine they found their you know they found their niche and yeah for sure elative lee like to think they're relatively happy and ready to be the heart of family engagement in the community we know that this has become more of a i was just talking to somebody about this that the libraries have become more of a community hob  libraries as people means that libraries are no longer just about building collections instead libraries are about building full library and serve in the role of coaches and mentors facilitators and teachers are busy because they need to see us more often right librarians got the role of media mentors that were doing a lot of that would been media and digital media libraries as a safe place to go we know that you know we wanted to be safe physically here but also when they get on any of our internet stuff and online with our stuff that it's safe as well in the we're welcoming responsive active libraries as a platform that we advance the idea that  with the parietal of tools and resources that we offer that for individuals and families they can learn to discover innovate create new things and we rock out man i'm telling you ok if you first yeah go ahead so i like how you mention about us being a safe space because i really stressed that with the teens especially because and i've been great as i've seen it that way is i like the kids that user teen or like they maybe i don't hang out in school right where there are different grades or they don't g like some kids are home school or they we have a couple different districts of right schools or whatever they all come from different walks of life will say but for the most part i would say like ninety nine percent of time they all get along yeah like they don't really have any issues and i think it's just because it's a state like the library is like just a different environment just like with our youth advisory council and some of those kids like me want it want to have a leadership role in school for whatever reason they're not comfortable with that but in the library it's more of a safe space and they're able to do it i point it is really good kind of gives them a place to be themselves outside of like like it's neutral right exactly you know yeah yeah and we are safe place and we tried to keep that i mean you've done such a great job that the the y a library is great and i yeah yeah we want that and we do want them like i like that the parents we get a lot of questions from them that the parents feel safe especially when the kids are just that the mcmurry age level for example  fifth and sixth that they'll ask us is it safe for them to just you know to walk over from school and to be very after school and we want them anywhere we want them to feel comfortable and safe  don't know they're you know we don't watch and ninety nine percent and very like you know we don't want anything to happen to anybody but certainly when they are in this building and they were with us they should feel safe  like fun play safe which the kids would just leave it at home and not even bring it to school yeah all right so there was one more thing in here is going to read about this one just because it was about the karna in this national magazine men national article they bring up the carnegie library of course has its own little box right there carnegie library of pittsburgh were simple you ship with the ready so do that story ok because i've been tired works of partnership with the ready freddy program bringing together educators from the pittsburgh public schools parents and community partners to focus on kindergarten  transition and school readiness through this partnership the libraries host a weekly story time program that begins in late winter and focuses on the transition to kindergarten that's a huge transition to kindergarten i feel like the transition to not everybody enters kindergarden at the same level right you know with the support of the library and spam leaves read books sing songs that's i was engaged in various other activities to east children into the routine daily activities because i hate that question or when you read it like what's going to happen to libraries and little it's going to happen to libraries like we're going somewhere and we're not going somewhere we're changing right with what needs to be changed but we'll be here yes you need us  handed little we talked i hope play dominoes yeah well we talked about it and i remember last time we were like i was trying to set him up and then every time i'd set up another one you know or keep doing that and then they would start falling over so then between that time and today practicing no not lining them up you know what i did do i make them stick you know i actually because i didn't think i would be good at this i actually went online to learn how to play ok that's how it's going to go that way are doing domino days we thought to be something fun it's like building things because it's build a better world do you have your t shirt on today going to the bottom of my laundry basket it's a true started it and i you know i had worn it last week for something and then the domino days august tenth and twenty fourth that's going to be the second of four thursday three p m they can come in and play dominoes while they want to play the real way yeah go ahead and play dominoes or practice setting the monologue and have directions printed so they can learn how to play the role where they'd like to because i'm sure most kids don't know how to play yeah i would love to do that because i would i really do want to learn how to do that second a fourth thursday said three and then on august eighteenth at one o'clock we want kids to come in here time it is i thought this box it has one thousand dominoes in it in ten different colors it has like pink and yellow and blue and they designed it yeah and they could do anything really cool with it and we want all the kids to come and whoever is interested in doing this we're going to use them all type our poster and we'll have the whole floor and everybody just kind of join in yeah and you know videotape it will have to have cousine back yet or yeah i don't know that see if it goes anywhere and if it doesn't and nobody shows up i've got twenty four  about i can probably do that so that we want to get we want to get a crowd out for the domino drop aug eighteenth that one that i think you know me i think ice cream and freeze pops and something fun and is in order for that to that's a fun all right so moving on so we have a a special program coming up with the unique opportunity that we have to be partnering with this storm or project which is a new organization here in the south hills area they've only been in existence for a little bit over a year and they help families coping with and pregnancy and that in early child loss and so i came across them earlier in the year and that we are going to be doing a special program with them so they have different aspects of the organization in the one aspect is there is still family component which is basically doing activities and things with siblings who have suffered a loss of this nature  really to bring them together to make them realize that they're not alone that unfortunately a lot of bad things happen a lot of families all of our families have had tragedies and right and and kind of bring them together and you know in  everyone and you can learn about this organization if you're interested in them and this can be a bit like an upbeat fun way to help but focusing on remembrance so the way this came about was because earlier in the year unfortunately we  had a passing in my family and we started a section or a library in honor of her called the scarlet sunshine section which is a tongue twister but it's a name and we told all of our resources that we have here the library and we acquired more since then that are for focusing on loss of any kind whether it be a pot loss or a sibling loss or grandparent whatever all loss is different but it's all the same at the same time right and it's all together and so any patron you know that needs those resources which we've had those questions come up on fortunately over the years where people you know how to put the dog down and they have to go pick it up if you have and they you know and that's i know for us that's the worst thing that ever comes you know gets asked of us and but now we have a nice place they can go and kind of browse on their own and not so much with us to pull titles and they can kind of get in because our bodies need something different right so so remember project found out that we have this section and they were really impressed by that and so they approached us to do the story time with them so it's a big honor and really we're we're honored to do it and excited about it think it's going to really great program for these kids and we talk about how much we love them in our last episode and i want to mention them again it because they also found out about this and contacted us and they have these wonderful when families grieve kits and they get they've already provided our library is fifty but i was told we could have as many as needed so if we ever run out of the fifty we can get more sex and they are in this scarlet sunshine section for families that come into the library and take for free but every child that comes this program is going to go home with one there's a d v d of an obsession episode that sesame street did on this topic it's going to be very hopeful and our crops are very fine everything's going to be related to sunshine and you know and you know ending summer and us on a sunny note so it should be a lot of fun so hopefully it becomes it goes well maybe somebody can do on a regular basis with them sounds great so that would be august twenty second that i was to unite ten thirty and having it done here like being a part of this from the beginning thank you yeah it's an honor yeah it is a good organization and i'm happy to help work with them but overall we've been so blessed in this library both of us of the different opportunities that have come across people to hear about us and want to work with us which is so fun it is whatever it is nice it did that says a lot about him and we're always we're i feel like we're open minded to with the ones we feel sensitive to things and especially you know when things happen that bring it even more near and dear to your heart during so it's always been there for everybody to libraries summer reading program the store the store yes because our store is going to be oh my gosh i don't believe it will you know we have so much stuff and how it works is our summer reading program and the eighteenth and then the following week that monday through saturday all the kids can come in and cash in their points for prizes you have to have been a member of the summer reading program to participate in it because that's how you would have gathered we're going to everything right you know we've had people go oh well you know how can my child be in it you have to have been in it at least that at some point through  people started different times to gather the point so that they have you know something to spend they've been reading all summer they've been working hard they've been attending our programs and now they get to enjoy it and read or reap the we don't want anybody to forget young or i miss out and that's happened that has happened and that's the reason why we decided to do this is because people like oh the stories this week i didn't know that right now you know it's on the stuff that we've sent home or one extra little go yeah it's the twenty first of the twenty fifth and it's during regular army obviously during library hours right in the hours that were open it'll be in the children's department i'll set up lots of fun spend spend spend yes i have nothing to spend did you learn any point i've been reading a little bit i've been reading but i haven't been keeping track of my points and my time yeah i always keep every time i read i always log my hour and you do know i'm sorry but fall is for school yeah oh my gosh as we're at the end of august with this episode school will be right around the corner  yeah this is actually we've had this one we don't know when it first came out which was over the summer and it has been nicely reviewed in i think i just read about it in the horn magazine so all this go back to school books are coming out you know whether wherever you're going whether kindergarten or third grade or preschool or school school or whatever local are going to go in school the books are  entourage yeah so this one is a new one for teens and it says you can stop waiting for the next hunger games also they might think it's pretty good called crazy house and no one gets out alive to seventeen year old baca greenfield was snatched from her home and thrown without reason into a hellish prison known as the crazy how to avoid executions she's told to shut her mouth and keep her head down bucko is never really good either her only hope for survival is her sister cathy to find her that the good twin will stop following the rules and start breaking them before it's too late because the jailers of the crazy house soon discover they made a mistake that could get both sisters killed  this is the craziest story you will ever read no one has ever gotten out of the crazy house alive but there's always a first time so a lot of fun though while i get but like a nice like good summer read you know like yeah sure it's a page turner it's so these kids are being you bring up the best books i was when i wish i had all the hours that we put in to work to have to read all the bad news you know we could all the books again all the information yeah all right so