It's hard for parents to do that with the limited time they get with their kids by the time the kids are home from school and homework is done. Because we homeschool, as we go about daily life I'm able to point out to my kids the different work going on around them. We talk about what parts of the job might be fun or interesting or difficult. I also try to emphasize that any honest work done well is worthy of respect, and I point out that the people working are working to provide for themselves and their families just like their daddy does.MechAg94 wrote:I am not really sure you can lay all that on schools. Parents need to find ways to expose their kids to hobbies and business/industry in general. I am not sure schools can really do a good job of that if they tried. These days teachers went to college and became teachers. What job information do they really have? Teachers who retired from other careers are rare from what I hear.
I don't want to say that parents shouldn't be doing this, but if the schools are going to keep the kids for so much of the day maybe they should be making more of an effort to expose them to the real world. How, I don't know, but when I spent a few years in public school I remember thinking how surreal it was, all of us in that building with no one but teachers. And I was the only one I ever saw talking to the janitors, maintenance guys, or cafeteria workers.