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 work with heroin and crack addicts. Don't see how kids would help there...

... wielding chainsaws with a tree surgeon ...

I am utterly gobsmacked that anyone thought this thread was serious given that my very first example (surgeons operating with children in there) was obviously ridiculous.

hey ho.

My Dad used to take me to work every day.

[kids don't know they're born nowadays emoticon]

What did your dad do, MB?

Never mind Sybil. I thought it was funny

If the thread was an attempt to gain sympathy to SAHM's then it failed.

Doing a few household chores with children is nothing at all like doing paid work and having your children with you. Work has deadlines, need professionalism etc - housework can be done any time and barely takes any time ay all if kept on top of.

Ha ha.Can just imagine dd trying to press all the buttons on the infusion devices and trying to eat peoples tablets:o

Thank you MistressPloppy

definitely a full moon.

My dad used to conduct an orchestra

Happy mum of 1 IMO being at work is actually quite restful in comparison to parenthood:)

I thought it was most likely a silly thread with a not-very-nice paragraph thrown in.

If it was just silly then why go on about "misogynistic child-haters who think having children is a lifestyle choice"?

garlic - he was a farmer. I was properly working every day and all day by age 10. Farm kids usually have a pretty good idea what hard work is by the time they leave school.

happymumofyawn

think of all the registered CMers/nannies etc who have their children with them all day whilst working, and doing all the housework and cooking for all the extra mouths, never mind the paperwork involved in CMing. dont even dare tell me that's nothing compared to walking out of the house and having 10 childfree hours in an office with other adults.

Oh Jesus no. I do have to take dd2 to work with me sometimes if Dh is late home, only ever for ten minutes at a time and in that ten minutes she still manages to ahve me tearing out my hair. There was the time she ran into the kitchen and demanded that they cook her some chips, then the time she begged to be allowed to swim in the giant fish tank, and the time she escaped and tried to break into the flat upstairs, and the time, well you get the idea.

I have nightmares about the amount of damage she could do in a whole shift.

morebeta, i was always jealous of my best friend in primary. him and his 2 brothers were raised to work as soon as they could walk on their dad's farm. don't knwo why i was jealous. it just seemed like a great childhood. maybe i was very naive though ?

'If it was just silly then why go on about "misogynistic child-haters who think having children is a lifestyle choice"?'

the actual answer to that is because it was sparked off by some stuff I read on another forum where a group of misogynistic blokes were going on (in the context of discussing the teachers' strike) about what a piece of piss it is looking after children though they had never actually done it; they slag off parents, maternity leave, the cost of state education, etc, quite often.
I was thinking to myself it would be quite amusing if they had to do their jobs while looking after children (as I struggled to clean the loos this morning with kids getting in the way).
I assumed MNers would get it without a full explanation being necessary; it didn't cross my mind ANYONE on here would consider themselves included in the category of misogynistic childhaters or that it was phrased in a way that would piss off WOHM (I was one myself until recently).

Clearly I was wrong. I apologise to anyone I have offended. And now I will leave the thread to die as evidently it is putting backs up and I have no wish to do that.

BooyHoo - it was very very hard and dangerous.

I look back on it with rose tinted spectacles now but my mother told me that of the 12 boys in my primary class only 6 of us made it to age 21. The other 6 died in farm or road accidents. I would not want my DSs doing it.

The Mines & Factories Acts were passed for a reason.

I think my children may die of boredom.
"What are you doing now mummy?"
"Well I'm turning this column of the spreadsheet a light green so it stands out a little bit more but doesn't detract from the, y'know, DATA"
"Oh."

god!! that is scary!! actually the boy i mentioned, his father died a few years back in an accident on the farm, so their family has experienced loss due to the work.

I already have a job that I take DD to every day. She even tells everyone she works there whilst we are there!

i think thats a good idea am a mental health nurse and when managers arrange meetings on my days off they dont seem to get that i cant attend next time i may take my 13 month old who would cause havoc climbing up every ones legs putting everybodys pens etc in his mouth and my 4 yo who would sit there for a bit before complaining very loudly that its boring maybe then they would get why i cant just drop everything for some meeting on my day off good way of making a point

OP - so parents who work aren't "hands on" then?

curry spice - that isn't how it reads to me at all! Hands-on parents will find it easy and the ones who will suffer will be the ones who can't cope with children and dislike them.
I am pretty sure that is what it means.

thank you curryspice just read the op properly have nothing against sahm would love to be one my self but finances dont allow for it does ent mean i love my children any less just doing the best i can