Bring Your Child to Work Day

My day started out in its usual way with the alarm clock announcing it was time to get up. Nothing unusual bout this of course except for the one fact that instead of doing my normal routine and taking my son to school and then heading off to work, my 9 year old will be going to work with me today. Today is Bring your child to work day and myself like many other parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and/or other family members and friends are bringing children into the work place for a taste of what they do. This year will be the 15Th anniversary of this wonderful concept of bringing children into the work place so the children can actually have a taste of what goes on when their family member goes to work and what a job is actually all about. Today my son learned what mom does for a job - he watched me and helped me doing different tasks throughout the day. The photo below is my son at my workstation pretending (posing for the camera) to be working at my job.

The following is where he actually got to sit - at a chair beside me watching me do my job - I think he was drawing pictures at the time of this photo.

For the most part we got to learn a little more about each other as we hung out for the day. He learned that I have an important role at my job and many people ask me questions. I learned a whole lot more about the building that I work in as the building does tours through out the day for the children and their prospective adult member. I also learned that my son is a really well behaved little boy, until about 12:30 when he got bored - Thank goodness we had another tour at 1:00 which actually saved the day as it took 2 hours. Today we visited the day care (all my children went to this day care - my oldest is 23), boy has it expanded in the years that I have been in this building. My oldest son was the first class to graduate from this day care - been at the same job for years - different departments, same work place. We got to see the roof of the building 18 stories high, boy downtown looked different from this point of view. We got to see how the building cools off and heats up - I wouldn't want that job!!!! We visited the mail room for the building and saw mail being x-rayed - yeah 911 sure changed things. The last stop on our tour was the police office and we got to see the detention room, holding cell, how they finger print people and my son got to see a police car up and personal - sat in the back seat and everything - Wow what a day!!!!! Now of course my son wants to be a police officer, great thing bring your child to work day - makes a child see the work force and makes a child realize that they have choices in life. To bad the schools don't enforce this wonderful day as he will be marked absent for today's events - he did have a perfect attendance until today - choices - I think he learned quite a lot for one day and so did I!!!!