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Abigail Scanlon posted a new Topic
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 4:04 PM
Not Quite Child Abuse?
Hi all,
The other day I had a front of house staff member tell me that while working with an adult at the gift shop cash register they witnessed they adult hit their child on the head and essentially tell them to stop goofing off. The staff member said it wasn't a hard enough hit to cause the child to cry out in pain but it was enough that the staff member wanted to ask me if we had a specific policy about adults hitting children. Well, turns out we don't exactly have a poli...
The other day I had a front of house staff member tell me that while working with an adult at the gift shop cash register they witnessed they adult hit their child on the head and essentially tell them to stop goofing off. The staff member said it wasn't a hard enough hit to cause the child to cry out in pain but it was enough that the staff member wanted to ask me if we had a specific policy about adults hitting children. Well, turns out we don't exactly have a poli...
Michael Bilharz posted a reply on Re: Exhibit Out of Order Signs
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 3:36 PM
Said: Our signs have a bandage on them and state "This exhibit has a boo-boo." It's cute and every child knows what the bandage, and the word boo-boo, represent.
Keni Sturgeon posted a reply on Re: New Grant Opportunities added to ACM's Onli...
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 3:20 PM
Said: Hi Deb,I also shared this post with the Development discussion board, so if your team is on that one, they would have received this notification. I tend to share information on the discussion boards to position specific discussions ...
Dennise Day posted a reply on Re: Exhibit Out of Order Signs
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 2:43 PM
Said: We have tried to add some science facts or fun facts about the exhibit while it is down, so even though they can't experience the exhibit they still get some fun fact/knowledge :)
Jen Johnstone posted a reply on Re: Exhibit Out of Order Signs
Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 2:41 PM
Said: We're a space museum, so ours read, "Houston, we have a problem." I think appealing to a pre-reading visitor with the bandaged head emoji is great. Or, if you don't want to go the emoji route, and illustration of some crazy gadget...
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