take your child to work day in MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

Wow...that would not fly in my office!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such an elitist and outdated "practice."

What's outdated about it?

I agree that middle-class parents are more likely to have the flexibility to be able to take their children to work. But I don't think that's a reason to get rid of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Np really? I thought none of the fed departments participated. At least none of the ones I worked for allowed kids or had any sort of program. I figured this was just a private sector perk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Np really? I thought none of the fed departments participated. At least none of the ones I worked for allowed kids or had any sort of program. I figured this was just a private sector perk.

NIST has something every year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Np really? I thought none of the fed departments participated. At least none of the ones I worked for allowed kids or had any sort of program. I figured this was just a private sector perk.

Nah, they have a whole day for the kids. They get to play with some of the fun toys we can bring out, and the badge guys make them their own badges. It’s pretty cute.

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I'm private sector. My employer used to do something for kids in grades 2-8. They'd make a badge, do something else ("meeting," maybe?) and then the employees/parents would come for a lunch (sandwiches or pizza). Even though there are 300+ people at my location, the participation decreased by the time my son was in 2nd grade and they haven't had it since. We've been told we can bring our kids into the office for BYCTW day, but they have to be supervised properly and can't be a distraction to other employees, etc.

Friends of mine at NIH and NIST have praised their agency's programs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Np really? I thought none of the fed departments participated. At least none of the ones I worked for allowed kids or had any sort of program. I figured this was just a private sector perk.

My husband works at NIH and they have some really cool stuff planned for the kids. My middle schooler and elementary kids are going.

[Anonymous]

Kid is a Billy Goat.

I liked it better when it was take you daughter to work day. Once boys got involved whole program went to the crapper.

Point was to encourage girls to go into engineering, Wall Street, computers, engineering etc. the male dominated fields. And originally for older girls.

My old company first year we had 13-16 year old girls and many became interns during college

[Anonymous]

WorldBank/ IMFs was great, Lockheeds usually was awesome.

My kids love stopping by each of our offices!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such an elitist and outdated "practice."

What's outdated about it?

I agree that middle-class parents are more likely to have the flexibility to be able to take their children to work. But I don't think that's a reason to get rid of it.

Look - I've been in teaching for over 20 years. What makes me sad is knowing that many of my students have parents - working two jobs around the clock - to put food on the table.

Now can you understand my comment?

This is an elitist practice that needs to die out. If you want to take your kid to work, do it whenever you want. It doesn't have to center on one day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Agencies only allow government employees, not contractors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such an elitist and outdated "practice."

What's outdated about it?

I agree that middle-class parents are more likely to have the flexibility to be able to take their children to work. But I don't think that's a reason to get rid of it.

Look - I've been in teaching for over 20 years. What makes me sad is knowing that many of my students have parents - working two jobs around the clock - to put food on the table.

Now can you understand my comment?

This is an elitist practice that needs to die out. If you want to take your kid to work, do it whenever you want. It doesn't have to center on one day.

Hugs to the burned out teacher, I'm sure it's stressful during this time of year. Hang in there it's just a few more weeks. I'm sorry you won't have your worst students absent for the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Agencies only allow government employees, not contractors.

Yeah ... not really the relevant point, though, since PPs were talking about agencies not having programs at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid is a Billy Goat.

I liked it better when it was take you daughter to work day. Once boys got involved whole program went to the crapper.

Point was to encourage girls to go into engineering, Wall Street, computers, engineering etc. the male dominated fields. And originally for older girls.

My old company first year we had 13-16 year old girls and many became interns during college

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your company has a take your child to work day, why would you take the day off? Why wouldn't you go in and participate?

Some offices do not allow you to bring your child in while you are "working" but you can bring them in while taking leave to visit etc. I have brought my child in...introduced them around..showed them my desk etc..took them out for lunch.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of take your child to work day? I attended meetings with my dad and accompanied him to client meetings. Helped take notes during conference calls. Etc.

My workplace doesn’t let kids help with the actual work. They have programs that show the kids some of what goes on, but they can’t participate in actual work. Though we do top secret work, so that’s really the reason. Can’t have kids handling highly classified information and computer systems.

My husband can never take our kids in. They don't allow kids even at the workplace for the day.

PP here. Where does your husband work? I’m at CIA and they have a program for the kids.

Agencies only allow government employees, not contractors.

Yeah ... not really the relevant point, though, since PPs were talking about agencies not having programs at all.

It is the point if you are a contractor so government can bring their kids but you cannot.