This survey provides feedback to the creators and implementer’s of MGOL Hatchlings.  They will use your comments when reshaping the program. 

Once again, children’s librarians have used their wonderful creative abilities to serve children and families, even amidst this health crisis. Since families cannot come to the library for MGOL programs, the librarians are bringing the programs to them!

For these uncertain times, I have created a new page on my website: MGOL at Home. There, you can link to many of the MGOL programs taking place online for children around the country. You can also see first hand how MGOL can be easily modified to fit the talents and interests of the facilitator. You will recognize the program, but see how widely it can vary!

Here is just one of many MGOL programs at home, done by Tara at the Cedar Rapids Public Library in Iowa.

Everyone should sing to their children, no matter how well they sing. To a child, the parent’s voice is the most beautiful sound of all. 

This is something I say in all of my workshops.  In To Listen, To Like, To Learn, Barbara Cass-Beggs wrote: 

Today, because we hear so much good singing on records and on the radio, we are much more conscious of how beautiful a trained voice can sound, and therefore much more conscious of our own vocal short-comings. However, cheer up, for children do not expect a professionally trained voice, and quite often this feeling that you cannot hold a tune or cannot make your voice carry lies in your own mind. Sing, and the children will enjoy you, and the more you sing the better you will sing.” (p. 45)

Barbara’s book was published in 1974, but her words remain true. Even in the world of MP3 players and playlists, there is nothing in the world better to a baby than his or her mother’s voice.