It's Jan. 29. Today how Williamsburg Regional Library selects its books, and how parents can moderate what children read. James City County provides digest on its spending.
Wow… the increasing slant of your articles is less and less lining up with the “fair and balanced”news approach that you share in your mission/about section 😞 Seems more along the lines of grabbing attention and inflaming differences or at best just showing where your biases are…
Misgendering the author is a bad look. They identify as they/them so using he/him pronouns is inappropriate. Facts matter and it's important for a journalist to get them right.
I hope that the planning is realizing theres only so much water. Our bills keep going up due to expansion. I know we pay for water and the more we need the more it cost.
understand why parents want a sense of control over what their children are exposed to, especially when it comes to timing and context. I’ve certainly had moments where a book my kids brought home made me pause—and it wasn’t a conversation I would have chosen, or chosen then.
That said, some of the most meaningful conversations I’ve ever had with my children came from books they read through programs like Battle of the Books at WRL—stories I didn’t select and didn’t anticipate. Those moments opened the door to honest, deep discussions where I could share my values, listen carefully, and give my kids space to develop their own.
I’m not sure many of those conversations would have happened otherwise. In hindsight, I’m deeply grateful for those unexpected opportunities and for the librarians and educators who created them. They turned surprise into connection, and that’s something I’ll always value.
Who are these "professionals" rating these books for the rest of us?!!
How about we respect how every parent wants to raise their children, especially elementary age and make a special section for books that have sexually explicit content whether it is girl/boy, girl/girl, boy/boy or any other way someone identifies as and prefers their sex. It is up to the parent to decide when their child is ready to be exposed to sex not society. Quit pushing the sexualization of our children as normal. It is NOT!!!
Does daddy know 10 year olds can get their periods and get pregnant? Maybe he needs to stop avoiding sex and gender talk. Parents need to model healthy attitudes toward sexuality and gender identity not mask it in shame and judgment. Using fiction to talk about issues is so helpful for all of us. Now I’m going to get that book out!
And btw the issue isn’t in parental rights to raise your own child the “way you see fit” but that these folks don’t stop there. They then want all children everywhere to have to live by their moral compass and deny other parents the right to give them access to what they see fit. It doesn’t go Both ways iykwim. It’s always the side of more freedoms for ALL. Or else it’s a touch fascist, no? 👀
Then the parents of that 10 year old can direct her to the information she needs. Judgemental about the father much? He'll parent his children as he sees fit just like you will yours.
At what point is it possible that a parent is making a decision that is harmful to a child and puts them at great risk and that child then goes to school and finds a trusted adult to talk to. Then that school gets in trouble for trying to help a child. It gets tricky fast so maybe I’m not judging so much as I am outlining the reality of childhood and how we all learned a whole lot without our parents ever knowing a damn thing. 🙃
Wow… the increasing slant of your articles is less and less lining up with the “fair and balanced”news approach that you share in your mission/about section 😞 Seems more along the lines of grabbing attention and inflaming differences or at best just showing where your biases are…
Misgendering the author is a bad look. They identify as they/them so using he/him pronouns is inappropriate. Facts matter and it's important for a journalist to get them right.
You're right. We corrected that on the page.
Thanks! Figured it was an honest mistake
I hope that the planning is realizing theres only so much water. Our bills keep going up due to expansion. I know we pay for water and the more we need the more it cost.
Just have to build more water infrastructure. No big deal, we can just get it done
Ok Ryan, where from? We already buy it from somewhere else
https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/1409787/nao-2008-01032/ just in case the details were something you were interested in.
Thanks I was happy to read it
Glad to hear it. Feeling better about welcoming new neighbors and keeping housing prices low?
Just build the infrastructure. There's plenty of water, we just need to treat it.
Yes, that I know and with all the new tech. Im sure it won't be hard
understand why parents want a sense of control over what their children are exposed to, especially when it comes to timing and context. I’ve certainly had moments where a book my kids brought home made me pause—and it wasn’t a conversation I would have chosen, or chosen then.
That said, some of the most meaningful conversations I’ve ever had with my children came from books they read through programs like Battle of the Books at WRL—stories I didn’t select and didn’t anticipate. Those moments opened the door to honest, deep discussions where I could share my values, listen carefully, and give my kids space to develop their own.
I’m not sure many of those conversations would have happened otherwise. In hindsight, I’m deeply grateful for those unexpected opportunities and for the librarians and educators who created them. They turned surprise into connection, and that’s something I’ll always value.
Who are these "professionals" rating these books for the rest of us?!!
How about we respect how every parent wants to raise their children, especially elementary age and make a special section for books that have sexually explicit content whether it is girl/boy, girl/girl, boy/boy or any other way someone identifies as and prefers their sex. It is up to the parent to decide when their child is ready to be exposed to sex not society. Quit pushing the sexualization of our children as normal. It is NOT!!!
How is them knowing that people are bisexual different from them knowing that men marry women?
Mr. Williams should monitor what the kids read and run everything through common sense media. That’s what I did when mine were younger.
Or trust that their kids can reasonably interpret facts.
Does daddy know 10 year olds can get their periods and get pregnant? Maybe he needs to stop avoiding sex and gender talk. Parents need to model healthy attitudes toward sexuality and gender identity not mask it in shame and judgment. Using fiction to talk about issues is so helpful for all of us. Now I’m going to get that book out!
And btw the issue isn’t in parental rights to raise your own child the “way you see fit” but that these folks don’t stop there. They then want all children everywhere to have to live by their moral compass and deny other parents the right to give them access to what they see fit. It doesn’t go Both ways iykwim. It’s always the side of more freedoms for ALL. Or else it’s a touch fascist, no? 👀
Then the parents of that 10 year old can direct her to the information she needs. Judgemental about the father much? He'll parent his children as he sees fit just like you will yours.
Why should we let him pretend that hearing about homosexuality or bisexuality is less child appropriate than hearing about heterosexuality?
Great point too. The normative principle sets up a whole lot of grey areas for what is offensive or shocking.
and makes it our responsibility to not go along with not normalizing talking about all sorts of sexuality.
At what point is it possible that a parent is making a decision that is harmful to a child and puts them at great risk and that child then goes to school and finds a trusted adult to talk to. Then that school gets in trouble for trying to help a child. It gets tricky fast so maybe I’m not judging so much as I am outlining the reality of childhood and how we all learned a whole lot without our parents ever knowing a damn thing. 🙃