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Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work On April 27
For Leah, my oldest daughter, April 27 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting days of the year (next to her birthday and Christmas). Why? April 27 is Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day.
I think her excitement seems to be a mixture of spending time with me and doing something grownup. And I’m excited to be able to show her the working world again. The last time I was able to do this was when she was four years old and she spent a half-day with me coloring and playing with a magnadoodle. Now that she’s seven, we can create activities so she can explore what work can be. Do some dreaming…I think I’ll join her.
The organization behind this day is the Ms. Foundation for Women. Their resource site has plenty to offer, particularly if your workplace or your child’s school sponsors the day. And if not, no worries…just play around with it and create something on your own.
As I was touring around the site and discovered a quote from Bob Drago, a friend and former Board member of mine when I was at another association:
When my daughters were younger, I found Take Our Daughters To Work Day invaluable, partly for the positive exposure to the world of work that it provided to my daughters, but also because it strengthened the bonds between us. Today, I believe in Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work more broadly as a way to educate children regarding the world of work, a way to humanize our workplaces, and as a device to teach parents about how work looks from the family side (which is often an eye-opener!). Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work is a great way to open up the workplace to issues of family, to see a side of employees that is often (and unfortunately) hidden, and to educate children, employees and managers as to options around flexibility that we either already have or should have in the future.
So, if you have children of your own, take some time to introduce them more intimately to your work (and if you don’t have children, grab a niece, nephew, or a neighborhood kid). Don’t think your work’s interesting? Just try to see it through the eyes of a child…you might be surprised.
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Thanks for the notice, Chris. April 27 is now marked on my calendar. My daughter, who is also seven, was just asking me when she would be able to come to work with me, again. It’s been a couple of years since her last visit. She still talks about having a picnic on my desk and drawing on the windows with dry erase markers. Thanks again!
Very cool, Troy. Hope to hear how your day goes with your daughter…we should have some good stories to share.
Anyone else planning something on the 27th?