Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day ought to be expanded.
One day every April — this year, it’ll be on Thursday — parents bring their kids to workplaces to help them “envision their future and begin steps toward their end goals.”
It’s a great program, but why limit it to kids 8 to 18? In these difficult economic times, we middle-aged people need dreams and aspirations, too.
That’s why, every year, I spend that day shadowing my parents. They are retired.
It usually begins at 5:30 a.m., when my father and I drink coffee and ...
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