Take Our Daughters To Work Day

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April 27 is Take Our Daughters to Work Day in Britain.( http://www.linksukstore.com/rings-c-184.html) Started at first in the United States and brought to Britain in 1994, Take Our Daughters to Work Day has become a special day for girls between 11 and 15. On that day thousands of girls take a day off school and go together with one of their parents to their work places. The purpose of this day is to broaden girls' horizons' and raise their self-confidence2.For many years people have thought that boys can do better than girls in society. But actually, "girls can be whatever they want to be just like boys, whether it is a pilot, a nurse or a chief executive3," says the chairman of the Our Sons and Daughters Charitable Trust, an organization which supported the activity1 of the Day. "Now the girls have a close look at what their parents are doing and this may help them to be more self-confident when they are faced with a choice of work."Schools and many companies support the activity too. Palmers Green High School for girls, in north London, has made the day a necessary part of career5 education.Zarina Bart, 15, from Palmers Green, ...
... went with her mother Gwen to her Lawyer's Office this year's Take Our Daughters to Work Day. "I learned how to fill in a legal6 aid7 form8 and I read details9 of a case. Now for each Mother's Day, an American Mother's Day Committee21 considers the names of many women who have been successful mothers and who have other important accomplishments22. From these, they choose a "Mother of the Year".We' 11 look now at what happens on Mother' s Day. As with most American holidays, Mother's Day has both a personal side and a commercial23 side — a part that is based on love for mothers, and another part which is based on, well, a love to make money.The outstanding24 thing about Mother's Day has to be the sending of Mother's Day cards. For Mother's Day most people want to at least show love to their mother, and a beautiful card will do this. And many cards do have the words "I love you, Mom." So even for those who are not comfortable speaking of love to their mother, they can say it with a card. And between one hundred and two hundred million Americans do this each year.But there's another slogan25 that has been made famous by one kind of American business, the florist (the person who sells flowers). It is, "Say it with flowers". For Mother's Day any kind of flowers are appreciated26 by mothers, but florists urge27 you to send red roses, which are both beautiful and very expensive.Besides sending cards or flowers, or buying a gift for Mother's Day, what else do people do? One custom for many years has been to wear a carnation21 flower on Mother' s Day, a white one if your mother is not living and a red one if she is.Well, one more thing happens on Mother's Day — phone calls, millions of them from long distance away. Mother's Day morning the telephone lines are not too busy, since so many mothers will be in church until about noon. But from about one o'clock until five or so in the afternoon, it may be difficult to make a long-distance telephone call to any place in America. It seems everyone with a mother somewhere is using the telephone then. In the past, there have been more telephone calls made in the United States on Mother' s Day than on any other day of the year.Then I went to see the actual trial," she said.Zarina found it interesting to see her mother at work. "It's really strange seeing Mum at work j 8. form [running around, getting serious and telling people what to do." She has always liked this idea of going into law and thinks it likely that she will follow in her mother's footsteps. Having a chance to see how her mother works has given her more self-confidence.Experts believe that girls with higher self-confidence aim higher and are more likely to be successful in life. Parents have most important effect on the confidence of teenage10 girls. If parents believe in their daughters and show examples both at work as well as at home for them, this will give a lot of help to girls. Take Our Daughters to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction.( http://www.linksukstore.com/)