The national date for the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program is always on the fourth Thursday in April. This year that means the program is on Thursday, April 23rd!

You can learn alot more at the national website www.daughtersandsonstowork.org

From the website: What is the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program?
Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® encourages girls and boys across the country to dream without gender limitations and to think imaginatively about their family, work and community lives. This national, public education program connects what children learn at school with the actual working world. Children learn that a family-friendly work environment is an employer and family issue and not just a woman’s issue. Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work helps girls and boys across the nation discover the power and possibilities associated with a balanced work and family life.

I would also think the opportunity to simply connect with your child on a different level and to help them understand what you do is an important part of the program. In my work I don’t have much of an opportunity to bring my kids to work but last year I was able to do it, kind of. I was able to have them in the room for the very beginning of one of my concurrent sessions at a convention. On the way to that room we walked through the general session room where I had presenter earlier (where the cameras and big screen were set up) and they were suitably impressed! In both rooms they saw where I worked and learned more of what I did. Sure, these are things we have talked about but actually seeing it was important for them. It is important for them to understand why I travel so much and what I do when I do travel.

The website listed above has resources and tips for creating this day in your workplace and making it meaningful. You don’t have to start from scratch. If you can’t bring your child to work then at least discuss your work on that day. Do it in a way you haven’t done it before to make it matter.

The words of, American scholar and teacher, Forest Witcraft serve us well here. “A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

Actually, with Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work day we get to do work on our bank account while being important in the life of a child. Not a bad day.

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