to think there should be a special day when everyone HAS to take children to work with them?

[SybilBeddows]

No exceptions.

Surgeons will have to operate with a small child hanging off their gown whining 'Daddeee! Daddeeee!'

Stockbrokers will have to conclude multimillion pound deals while spinning a child round and round with one hand on the office chair next to their desk.

Academics will have to pontificate about string theory at seminars while holding a baby on their lap who is trying to crawl onto the table.

Policemen and women will have to chase criminals with two kids alternately fighting in the back and demanding to listen to Nellie The Elephant.

What will be particularly satisfying is that the particular kind of misogynistic childhater who thinks children are a lifestyle choice and SAHMs are parasites, will cope worst of all, compared to the hands-on parents.

There may be a few deaths but it will be worth it in the long term. AIBU?

I'm in.

DS is going through a "no" phase so would be particularly helpful in the middle of a difficult bail application.

Me: Your Honour, can I ask you to consider my submissions on bail
DS: No. Nononononononnoooooooo!
Judge: Thank you Miss Pannda, I think I prefer your son's submissions. bail refused.

As a sahm I absolutely agree with you. I would love it if DH had to take them both to work with him.

the judge will also have kids with him/her Kungfu, I don't know what difference that will make?

I'm not utterly convinced that my 3 year old has the right level of empathy and understanding to deal with suicidal clients tbh.
I'm a mental health nurse.
In fact, when I worked last Christmas both children were convinced that it was to go and help incredibly poorly people to open their presents. (if only )

YANBU, it's a great idea!

What about scaffolders, sewage workers and soldiers on active service??

Brilliant notion

interested 10 year old in cockpit of fighter plane: 'What does this button do?'

Sounds like an utterly shit idea to me.

If you're proposing a thread on how funny children would be in a sitcom version of "take your children to work day" then fair enough, that's a fun idea for a silly thread.

Your comments on misogynistic childhaters sound a little out of place in that context though.

Sybil!

garlic most little dcs are obsessed with poo. They would love a day out at the sewage works!

tbh Garlicnutter I don't see a problem with the scaffolders, the kids will love it, they just have to be clipped on securely with a clip too stiff for little fingers to unscrew.

re the scaffolding. Parents who were formerly "anti-reins" might quickly change their tune!

Our ds' (4 years and 18 months) would LOVE to play with Daddy's expensive and highly callibrated machine . I also can't see any reputable scientific journal having a problem with a paper submitted covered in crayon diagrams either.

I would love to see my DD in work with both me and her dad. I think she would prefer to go with dad who works on a Oil Rig so she would go to work in a helicopter!

What will be particularly satisfying is that the particular kind of misogynistic childhater who thinks children are a lifestyle choice and SAHMs are parasites, will cope worst of all, compared to the hands-on parents.

Who would cope worst of all is:
parents who have demanding jobs that are not child-friendly
parents who have large numbers of children
parents who do not usually look after their children alone

Misogynistic childhaters will simply have their belief that children are disruptive to adult life confirmed.

God no. Where I am there'd be more kids than adults.

note I said everyone has to take children, not their children to work.
So having large numbers of children is neither here nor there.

Trillian, the OP also said There may be a few deaths but it will be worth it in the long term. AIBU?

So possibly not being presented as a fully-fledged parenting proposal

Given that most MNers won't leave their children with anyone but grandparents (and sometimes not even them) I can't imagine anyone volunteering their children for "take a random child to work day" for someone who didn't have kids of their own.

But surely OP, if you want people to understand what SAHPs do...then you have to ask theose people to ...er...well...stay at home.
SAHPs don't attempt their 'job' with kids. Why should anyone else benefit from having to?

i think a some people are taking this thread far more seriously than it was intended. is it a full moon?

It's just that one paragraph that seemed a bit overly serious and out of kilter.

Ooh, I missed that bit, Sybil! So if you're reeeeeally fed up with your offspring, you can arrange for them to go deep-sea diving with a pipeline mender ...

I work on a bank trading floor, some days I reckon my 22 month DS randomly hitting buy/sell would make a better job of it than me . As an aside, we do let kids come in on Christmas Eve and it's quite amusing when the economists kids get on the tannoy yelling across the whole floor...for about an hour, then it gets a bit annoying.