

This works best at smaller companies though. Soldering, inventory, cable routing, oscilloscopes, manufacturing, pulling pranks on Dwight, etc.

Even if daddy isn't doing anything fun, somebody nearby might be. The "unofficial" take your kids to work day is when the parents just bring the kids in without having a corporate event, and the children really get to see what happens and it can get interesting. This defeats the purpose of "take your child to work day" because the children are explicitly not shown what the parents do at work. There are maybe 10-20 minutes where they kids are with their parents. They take all the kids and put them into a room with a highly paid baby sitter and show presentations and have them do coloring (BTW, I never have to sit through presentations in my job).
