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?

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

well lets be honest, its not that hard is it :) and yes i have done it, three kids under 5 at one point

and of course when they go to school, even easier. I find it a tad amusing that some try and make out its difficult, particularly when they have spent the last hour telling us all on MN how hard it all is :)

Slight stereotype of surgeons being male there...

Ds could come in to my work easily, it's the running around as that would cause a problem. He'd definitely lighten the mood in DH's work though.

Children are a choice though OP.

tazmin, lucky you that your 3 were so easy to care for on a day to day basis. many otehr children are not and that is through no fault of their parents and yes it can be bloody hard when you are running on 3 hours sleep for the last 2 years with 2 SEN children and a 4 month old baby. just because it was easy for you does not mean others are wrong or lying for saying they are finding it difficult.

Some people take themselves far too seriously...
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Sounds like a great idea to me, OP, although as a primary teacher, don't know that it would be a bad day, as I would only have one child to deal with, all the others would be at other peoples workplaces!

Ha ha. DH would have to take the DCs to work with him. In a nightclub, at about 3am. Maybe they could choose the music... A selection from the Teletubbies album, perhaps? Or maybe the Octonauts theme tune to step up the pace a little?

Last time we took them to see him at work (at a festival, evening time, last summer) I was actually told by some Alexa Chung wannabe right in my face 'this is no place for children'. 'They've been to see their dad at work 'I snapped back before stylishly flouncing off and getting the Phil and Ted's stuck in mud.

yabu
dh is in the building trade,
yep can just see him taking dd, who is in a wheelchair to work.

justkeepingheadabovewater

I say we do it!

YANBU - I would love to take DD to work with me all day, every day, she's not quite 2 and is full of beans and walks around making animal noises all day. I can see that going down well while doing an audit

I think it's a fine plan. But then I lecture in a subject where it's important to ask 'why?' a lot and the follow up with many more silly questions. My kids would be fine. Better than me, in fact

Actually, I have worked in a very dangerous environment (politically) where many people would have to bring their kids into work on a saturday or sunday when they had no childcare. Everyone just got on with it, even though 'it' involved planning the peaceful overthrow of Apartheid in South Africa. There would be children hanging out in the boardrooms and offices. We had to prioritise finding childcare when members of staff were arrested.

I still don't get it.

Did you want to have a jokey thread about how funny it would be to have children at work?

Or did you want to discuss how being a SAHM is hard work and people shouldn't knock it when they've never tried it?

The difference is that while being a SAHM is work, that is the whole job. You're not trying to do another job while looking after children, looking after children is the job. No-one considers being a SAHnot-Mum a job.

absolutely yabu. There's nothing worse than when someone brings their brat/child to the office and expect everyone else to be equally enamoured with them

x2boys - you misunderstand - I was questioning the OP's comment that parents who work are not "hands on" precisely as you say

And kungfupanda I read it as parents who WOTH think SAHPs are parasites and will have a hell of a shock if they had to parent their kids for a day. Maybe I'm wrong and you are right

Oooh yes please DD can give the pupils (who ask to leave the room 50x a lesson because they "forgot" to go to the toilet at lunchtime) a withering look and loud "NOOOOOO" for me.

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

Ohh how utterly sexist OP!

Just thought I'd get in there before someone else does

worra you beat me to it!!

It'd would add a whole new dimension to my pleas of 'gentle, gentle' when he grabs hold of things - 'gentle, gentle with that man's appendix' 'no, we don't play with that - that's a gallbladder. Can you say gallbladder?'