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Want Your Kids to Understand Your Work – Take Them With You

When your children  understand what you do, they will respect it and you a little more.

 

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Help them understand your place in the universe.

 

When you explain your work to your children, be sure to tell them how what you do fits into the world at large. No matter what you do, it is related to some larger picture. For example, you may be a housekeeper at a Fortune 500 company. Your job is important. It is important because the people at your company can do their job better because you provide a clean, well-stocked workplace. Because you are there and keeping the floors clean, the trash cans empty and the toilets in order, other employees can do their work. If you are the president of that same Fortune 500 company, the work you do helps directly provide jobs for perhaps thousands of people in the office building. So whether you are a housekeeper or Fortune 500 president, your job is part of a larger picture, a piece of a bigger puzzle.

No matter what your job is, when you show your children where you work, make sure to behave as if you are proud of the work you do. It is important for children to have a good impression of your work and to know that all legal work has merit, honor and should be appreciated.  When your children think you have no pride in what you do, they pity you for having to work. If they pity the work you do, it will give them a negative view of work. It is important not to give your children a bad taste in their mouths about work.

After all, one day they will need to find work in order to support themselves and their family members. You want them to feel good about that prospect. You do not want them to be filled with dread about the prospect of going to work each day once they are adults. It is important to show your children that you appreciate your job because it is a way to teach them to appreciate and find good in situations they encounter.

If you work at home, you can still give your children the “go to work with the parent” experience. Take your children to your office area. Let them see what you do and how you do it. When they see that you are actually working and not merely playing in your office or on the computer, they will have more respect and appreciation for what you do. It is important for you to make it clear to your children that when you work at home, you are working.

This way when you tell them you are working they will respect your words and you will be able to work with fewer interruptions. Parents playing on the computer can be interrupted at will. Parents who are working on the computer cannot be disturbed. Explain to your children how what you do at home matters to the world because it is part of a larger picture. Show them all the steps in the process and where your piece fits in. Children understand puzzles so when you explain your piece of the puzzle, they will understand and they will get it. It will surprise you, but they will get it.

 

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Here is another look at why it is important to take your children to work with you.

Entrepreneur – Take Your Children to Work

When you take your children to work with you, it helps them understand what you do, why you do it and how your work fits into the world at large. So, the question for you this fantastic day is, have you ever taken your children to work with you?

 

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