Cross-posted at Blogher
If you took your daughter, son, neice or nephew to work with you last Thursday, you're evidently not blogging about it. In fact it doesn't seem like anyone is talking about this year's Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day.
If parents and children participated...and according to the PR "16 million" were anticipated to participate...why isn't anyone talking about it?
In trying to put a post together, I searched Technorati, Google,and MSNBC,High Beam, Wall Street Journal,and Businessweek Online and came up with one company that released a news release about their plans for the day---Merrill Lynch .(They were a sponsor of the event)
Evidently a couple of years ago, Ms.Foundation formalized the day that some had coined "National Play Hookey Day". For whatever reason, coverage of the day seems to have evaporated.
Given that I have had a home office for nearly 10 years, every day is 'take my kids to work day". However, when I did work in an office, we made a big deal about the day. And, it seems that it was as worthy of news coverage as the perennial events: Ground Hogs Day, The Friday after Thanksgiving shopping at the mall story, and Britney Spears is pregnant,again.
With 2- hour cable and millions of blogs, you'd think someone would have spent a little time talking about an event that Sara Gould, CEO and President of the Ms. Foundation says,
"As adults we often face the challenge of balancing work, family, community, and personal responsibilities. We often have to make decisions about working late, leaving work early to pick up a sick child from school or attend a school play, or providing the best care for a sick parent or relative. Sometimes these decisions are easy, and sometimes they may be difficult or complicated. The Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work® program encourages our nation’s daughters and sons to think about these issues. Through activities designed specifically for the program we can begin a constructive, solution-oriented conversation with our children about the challenges of daily life."
It's a conversation that for the time-being no one seems interested in having. And that says more about where we are as a society than a hundred blog posts.
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