Today is Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010. Ever since 1993 it has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday of April, even though it sometimes is known by different names. It was originally known as Take Our Daughters to Work Day but was expanded to include boys in 2003. The original designation of daughters only, according to Wikipedia, came from Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women back in 1993. It was believed that girls were going to need more exposure to the workplace in order to counteract gender stereotypes. It took 10 years before the organizers of Bring Your Child to Work Day realized that too was exclusionary, so the holiday came to be known as Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010 is simply a shorter variation on that title. Whether a parent works at payday loans companies or a high rise office, families should get involved.

Bring your child to work day 2010 gives to kids

According to the official Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010 website, the working holiday is intended to get boys and girls thinking about what career they might enjoy and learn how dad or mom conducts business in the workplace. As young children, in particular, are more flexible in terms of gender roles, Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010 is a great opportunity to expose open minds to the choices out there in the working world. Perhaps more importantly, it’s an opportunity for parents to teach their children what it means to be a professional and how to conduct themselves in the workplace, be it that high-rise or at the no faxing payday loans company.

Bring your child to work day 2010 ideas?

The official website, www.daughtersandsonstowork.org, is loaded not only with history and significance of the special day, but ideas about how educators, employers and parents can work together to make Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010 a day of enrichment. The most popular part of the website will be the activities section, where online games, suggestions for in-office ice-breaker activities and worksheets to help kids start thinking about the career world are available.

Start a trend with bring your child to work day 2010!

Parents are the most important teachers for their children. Teach your children about hard work and about taking pride in work. Those are lessons that are beneficial even when kids are young, and they want to learn from you.

Resources for the article

Bring Your Child to Work Day 2010

http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=936

Gloria Steinem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem

Ms. Foundation for Women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Foundation_for_Women

daughtersandsonstowork.org

http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/