Bringing Kids to Work on Snow Days

[Anonymous]

Just interested in the temperature of the masses on parents who bring their kids to the office for the entire day whenever there's a school snow day.

[Anonymous]

I like the polite kids who arrive with a backpack full of shit to do and they spend the day reading their little books and drawing or whatever, happy to run an errand or whatever. I'll go out of my way and invite that kid to lunch with me.

Not a fan of kids who whine, or can't keep their voices down or get in the way.

[Anonymous]

I teach in a school district different from the one where my DD goes. I bring her 1-3 days a year and nobody cares. But she is 6 and can blend in.

[Anonymous]

My kids are older now but I used to bring them. I would bring lots of books, crayons, and other things for them to do and make it a short day.

I don't bring my kids anymore, but I like seeing kids around my office on snow days as long as they aren't running wildly up and down the hall. It makes the whole place feel more human. Parents need to know their own kids and know when those kids have had enough of being well behaved and it is time to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a school district different from the one where my DD goes. I bring her 1-3 days a year and nobody cares. But she is 6 and can blend in.

Your district allows this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are older now but I used to bring them. I would bring lots of books, crayons, and other things for them to do and make it a short day.

I don't bring my kids anymore, but I like seeing kids around my office on snow days as long as they aren't running wildly up and down the hall. It makes the whole place feel more human. Parents need to know their own kids and know when those kids have had enough of being well behaved and it is time to leave.

+1

[Anonymous]

As a childless 32 year old, I like it. It's a little out of the ordinary, like as if a giraffe or an elephant walked through your office. BUT when the children are allowed to run all over, including into MY office, and I am expected to entertain them, nope. nope nope nope.

[Anonymous]

I don't bring my kid to the office because of his hyperactivity. No way he will sit in the office the whole day painting and reading.

[Anonymous]

I think it is fine if they are good and sweet and quiet, but not if not.

[Anonymous]

My kid would not sit quietly and read or color, so he stays home or goes to the Y if it's open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a childless 32 year old, I like it. It's a little out of the ordinary, like as if a giraffe or an elephant walked through your office.

haha

[Anonymous]

I don't know. . . I have a kid and would not do this unless it was an emergency (no childcare and some urgent thing to do at work). But honestly, I avoid doing it -- my husband or I will take the day off to stay home with DS if daycare is closed. I understand not everyone has paid leave, so if that's your situation, I understand, but for people who could take the day off, I generally feel like that's what parents are supposed to do when childcare falls through.

[Anonymous]

I must be old school, because my feeling is that, especially in a large company, this is something that Just Isn't Done, especially by white-collar workers.

[Anonymous]

I hide my DD in an empty office next to mine with the door closed, and she listens to an audiobook story and plays with the stuff we packed in her backpack for her this morning: coloring, puzzles, and some Beanie Babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a childless 32 year old, I like it. It's a little out of the ordinary, like as if a giraffe or an elephant walked through your office. BUT when the children are allowed to run all over, including into MY office, and I am expected to entertain them, nope. nope nope nope.

LOL, I remember feeling this way too when I was a childless 32-yo. Funny.