Take is Take Your Child to Work Day. Or Take You Sons and Daughters to Work Day. Or whatever. Regardless, I’m not falling all over myself to do it. Granted, my kids would love to go to work today with their father, who is in Sri Lanka today, but their mean parents refused to pay for the plane tickets.
Personally, I think if you’re going to do a take your kids to work day, it should be done in July when no kids are in school. I’m pretty curmudgeonly when in it comes to pulling kids out of school, though, so you can disregard me. And you probably do, as many companies participate in this day of pulling kids out of school to come to work with mom or dad and do what exactly?
And that’s my point. If you’re going to have your kids miss school, let’s at least do this right. Your company probably has activities and games and talks about the interesting things that go on in the company. That’s all fine and good, but here’s what you should be doing.
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Good Morning Evil HR Lady, though it might be too late to change the Inc. article, I noticed a typo or two in your intro paragraph on this page if you wanted to fix it… (strangely enough one appears correctly on the Inc. page)
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When I took my kids to work, I always put them to work – either for me or for someone else. And, let met tell you, even a 6 year old an be helpful if you give them the right job. Of course, it’s on the parent to make sure that the kid has the right tasks, not the other staff. But, if Parent is going their job right, the kid can learn something and be helpful as well.
I’ve seen this with other children in my office. Some of them have been really helpful.
Last year one of our company’s owners brought his 3 daughters in. They used his phone to take photos of the salesmen they thought were cute, did a lot of giggling and were basically disruptive. He spent the day on the phone. He hasn’t brought them in since – not even for a visit. I think he was embarrassed. He didn’t have the time to spend with them and we didn’t feel it was our place to give them something to do or to quiet them down.
I totally agree with doing Take Your Child to Work Day in the summer. My kids both went to school (they have been to my office and there is nothing for them to do here for more than 30 min) and there were only about 12 kids in my son’s 4th grade class, so basically nothing happened at school either. What a waste of time.
I remember that one coworker brought his kids in to work at our aerospace company. We had rockets and other cool stuff. My coworker kept expressing how fun his job was compared to other jobs. At the end of the day his kid quipped “Boy, other people must have REALLY boring jobs.”
Yup, most professional jobs are paperwork.