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It's 'take our kids to work (from home) day'

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In exchange for chores, this mom made her kids a movie theater experience at home

Jennifer Ringberg

Genevieve Shaw-Brown

ByGenevieve Shaw Brown

April 23, 2020, 3:01 PM

Remember when "take your kids to work day" came just once a year?

Now every parent who is working from home gets to take their kids to work. Every single day.

It's frustrating. It's exhausting. It's also -- at times -- hilarious. Remember the dad whose kids crashed his live TV interview a couple of years back? That's pretty much all parents right now.

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From teachers who are leading the charge on virtual learning for all of us:

April 23 is #TakeOurDaughtersandSonstoWorkDay 😂 I’ve got that taken care of for today and the next month! I’ve had this day on my calendar forever because my 2nd grader was super excited to come to my 2nd grade classroom this year. Instead she’s helping run my virtual classroom pic.twitter.com/mecbLDM7la
— Mrs. Yanuzzelli (@MrsYanuzzelli) April 23, 2020

PHOTO: Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day — Amelia in Northridge,California, helps her mom, a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher, teach from home on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
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PHOTO: Take Your Child to Work Day — ABC News' Jen Watts with her three year old Hudson covering the news from the West Coast for ABC News from her Los Angeles home.
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