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At Michigan State University, children of employees spent a Thursday seeing what it’s like to staff a dairy farm, work in sports or plant a tree at the school’s first in-person Take Our Kids to Work Day since the pandemic began.
Some 1,500 employees and kids have registered and the university has invited staff to bring any child in their life to explore the campus.
“This is a way that people can see each other and meet their families, show off MSU, which is designated a family-friendly university,” said Jaimie Hutchison, director of the university’s WorkLife Office. “It also allows people to see what others do across campus and have more pride in the institution that they work for.”
MSU’s plans recall the roots of Take Our Kids to Work Day, which celebrated its 30th anniversary. This year, Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation, the nonprofit that promotes the day, hopes more organizations remind people of the importance of showing kids where their parents work. The foundation also hopes to get some help to ensure its survival.
The idea of Take Our Kids to Work Day, which the foundation marks annually on the third Thursday in April, seemed like part of a bygone era in recent years because, due to the pandemic, there weren’t a lot of workplaces to take them.
Many parents were always taking their kids to work — or taking their work to wherever the kids were — in the dawn of the work-from-home era caused by COVID-19. And for parents who needed to head to a workplace, precautions over limiting the spread of the disease generally kept their kids away.
This article was provided by The Associated Press.