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Welcome to Round four of the Parenting
Roundabout podcasts for the week of May fifteenth.

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I'm Terry Morrow, and I'm here
with Catherine Heleco. Hello. Nicole

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Radics is out this week. We
hope she's feeling better. As moms of

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teens and young adults, we survived
those little kid days, yet we're still

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rethinking the decisions we've made all through
our kids lives and worrying about what's going

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on right now. Today's Thursday,
which means it's time to give into our

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obsessing, and today we're obsessing about
take your child to work day, a

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thing that I am not sure existed
when my children were young enough to do

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it. It probably did. I
think it started in the nineties with take

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your daughter to work, but yeah, but it would have been like late

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nineties, yeah, or maybe possibly
early two thousands, just because I was

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working at Working Mother magazine and it
was a big deal, okay there,

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and that was like, yeah,
that was the that was the late nineties,

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I guess. Yeah. I think
at no time when my kids were

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were young was I working in a
place that was big enough to really do

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it up. And then I was
freelancing, so every day is take your

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kid to work day, Come into
my office? What do you need?

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But I see now that there's some
companies that really do it up. There

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was, Yeah, they have little
you know, seminars for the kids and

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workshops and they do jobs and they
really make it a make it a thing.

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Which okay, yeah, I mean
you don't work in that kind of

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place. You're like, well,
what am I gonna do? My kid's

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gonna sit in a chair in the
corner for the whole time. Yes,

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yeah, Just this year, my
son was like, hey, let's take

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our children to work day. I
think I should stay home from I'm going

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to the mother's workplace and I'm going
to observe her for the days. Get

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ready, real bored kids get off
school for this? Yeah? I think

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they can. Wow. I mean
depending on the school, but I think

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I think they can, especially if
it's for like an organized you know event,

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and it's really more for little er
kids, so like, who cares

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if they day? It's true,
what if your mom's a teacher, you

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have to leave your classroom and good
class I mean that might be interesting in

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dad's not just moms, Yes it
is, and it's no longer just daughters.

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Obviously all kids is did you do
it at all when your kids were

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little? Were there any you were
working any places where they had that.

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No, I mean I've been working
at home too ever since my daughter was

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two, but I think I'm pretty
sure she went with my husband when he

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had like a a corporate job,
so, um, you know. So

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I think it was one of those
where they had a whole program and that's

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cool, you know, I think
it's interesting. It's yeah, it's not

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a bad idea. I would have
liked it for my kids, although I

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don't know how well they would have
fit in with things that are like organized

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for typical kids. But still,
it would have been nice to try just

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bring my son to the workplace and
let him loose see if anybody could do

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anything with him. It'd be fine. Probably have to pay his pair professional

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to come with him, come with
Yeah, I did for summer programming for

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quite some time. But yeah,
your your thoughts. You would like to

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take your mom to work day?
I think we need to expand this.

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Absolutely, we need a take your
mom to work day. It could be

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every day that'd be fine, but
least once a year that you could bring

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your parent with you and have everybody
meet them and allow them to ask questions

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and show them around and show them
all the things you do and all those

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people you've been talking about, Oh
this is that guy. Okay, fine,

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and you know of them experience.
I mean, I would stand out

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in the hot parking a lot with
my son while he gathered carts. It

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would be you know, I do
it on a cool day. But still

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I would love I would love,
love love to see what my kids do

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at work and how people respond to
them, and whether you know the boss

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I've been saying, Oh, they
probably really like you. They just are

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trying to help you to do better. Is really that's true? Or they're

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just mean? It's there's so much
I want to know, Catherine. There's

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so much I want to know,
and there's no format to find it out.

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You're not allowed to call, right, they don't have professionals anymore that

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I can have spy for me and
then whisper to me in the back hall

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what's go going on? No,
I have no way of knowing, and

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we've forbidden you from calling. Yes, yes you have, and it's actually

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turned out that was a good thing. But still, once a year,

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you know, probably a fair number
of employees. Their parents wouldn't want to

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come, but the ones who want
to come want to come. I want

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to go. I would pay if
you want to charge at the door.

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If you want to have a little
entrance fee, I'm down with it.

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That's fine. I'll buy my own
lunch. I'll buy things vending machine like

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my I will, I totally will. My son really enjoys the vending machine.

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Look at his credit card statements every
month and it's like there were ninety

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two charges from the vending machine last
month. And I would like to go.

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I would like to buy something from
the vending machine. Wouldn't that be

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fun? Show me what your day's
like. Son, Let's go get some

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things from the vending machine. It'd
be awesome. The two main parking lot

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and the vending machine and the vending
machine. Yes, show me where the

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break room is, show me where
the tool place is that you go and

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hang out with the guys. I
mean, I can walk around the store,

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but I don't know these things.
I would like to be formally introduced,

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right, I don't They could have
like a little they could have,

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you know, a little presentation about
the business in the back room for the

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parents. So that the kids could
go work. But any place that has

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teens or young adults working, Golly, would that be fun. My mom

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would love to go to my workplace
too. Yeah. I might not have

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liked that so much, but she
would have been super into it. Sure,

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she would have flown across the country
to go to my take your own

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to work day at Palmark. Yes, that would have been fun. I

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think they're missing a niche here.
I think that would be a very popular

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offering. You could do it around
Mother's Day, or around Father's Day,

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or just really any old day you
want. I would be there. I

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would cancel meetings. I would be
there. I don't have that much to

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do. I mentioned I don't get
out much. Let me come in.

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You would avoid scheduling a podcast recording
on that day. I would I record

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it Live your work day. This
is so fun. Oh there's a lady

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who said that mean thing. Let
me go over and give her this stink

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guy. Oh, I want it
so bad. Every time I hear about

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the bring your daughter, bring your
child to work day, I think there's

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a niche that is not being filled. Someone needs to think of the schools

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to bring you. You know,
they make back to school night where there's

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no kids there. But if they
could just let us sit in the back

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of the classroom during a normal day
bring your mom to school day. I

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have a problem. I need to
post me quiz about how overinvolved are you?

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I would venture to guess we didn't
do the parents all, are you?

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Because I already know my rotors are
spinning? Baby? Oh dear,

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Well, we could do crafts in
the back of the They could set us

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up a little little off a little
office or cubicle or conference room and you

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know table could we could make things
as popsicle sticks. It'd be fine.

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Yeah, and we'd discuss. We
could discuss all our children and how they're

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doing. And I was having a
problem, and anybody else gets ninety two

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things from the vending machine in a
month a part time work. I believe

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he is buying friends with vending machine
purchases, and I am for it.

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You're okay with that, I'm okay
with that. If it's a buck sixty,

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you know, go ahead, buy
that person a candy bar, you

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go. If it's giving your friend
a your your debit card information and letting

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them charge six thousand dollars with the
stuff not so much a bag of skittles.

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You go, we're going for it. Well, I think you've identified

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her this and think, yeah,
make it happen. Make it happen.

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Businesses, please please, Yeah,
I'll donate to your favorite charity. I'll

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say nice things about you on social
media. Yeah, I'll you know,

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there's also some possibilities context me,
I'll go to somebody else's work. Really,

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honestly, I'm just well, it
has to be like an exchange program.

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Would they go to your kids work
and then their kids work, and

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then we much afterwards and chang change
notes. Yes, exactly. I'm just

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gonna see typical pocket. Don't worry
that. When that happens, we will

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talk about it here. But from
Mother's Day present, I want that's it

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