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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Family · The fourth Thursday in April

Kids spend a day at a parent's or relative's workplace to see what grown-up jobs look like up close, from the commute to the lunch break.

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day falls on Thursday, April 22, 2027. That is 177 days away.

Children go to work with a parent, relative or family friend and see what a job actually involves. It falls on the fourth Thursday in April, and many people know it by its shorter name, Take Your Child to Work Day.

For a lot of kids, a parent's job is a mystery wrapped in a lanyard. They hear words like meeting, shift and deadline without much sense of what happens between leaving the house and coming home. A day on site fills in the picture: the desk or the truck, the coworkers with names they have only heard at dinner, the coffee machine that apparently matters a great deal.

Workplaces mark it in different ways. Some offices plan tours, simple activities or short talks from different teams. Others keep it informal, and the child sits nearby, asks questions and helps with a few safe tasks. Jobs that are hard to visit, like those with safety rules or confidential work, sometimes swap in a show and tell at home or a video call instead.

The questions tend to be the best part. Children ask what someone's favorite part of the job is, what was hard to learn, and why anyone needs that many spreadsheets. Grown-ups often find that explaining their work simply makes them see it a little differently too.

One practical step helps: check the workplace's guidelines ahead of time, and pack a notebook so the visitor can draw or write down what they saw.

Ways to celebrate

• Bring a child to work if your workplace welcomes visitors.
• Ask your child to interview a coworker about their job.
• Pack a notebook for drawing or notes about the day.
• Describe your job at dinner using only simple words.
• Try a home show and tell if your workplace cannot host visitors.

Dates

All national days on April 22

Also on April 22

• National Jelly Bean Day
• April Showers Day
• Girl Scout Leader Day
• Passover

Categories: Family days