Wrangling Tears and Tantrums: How to Keep Families Coming Back to the Library.

The article offers tips to library professionals on dealing with a crying child in the library children's department. Topics discussed include the significance of the child development practices adopted by public libraries to support literacy development, importance of establishing a routine for leaving the library to build the executive function of a child, and the need for library staff to reassure adults accompanying the child that crying is typical and not offensive to them.