I think it varied from school to school, district to district, and in some cases, if the companies themselves allowed it. I could see some companies not permitting it due to security issues.

I went to work with my parents a total of five times, and only one was for "Take Your Child To Work Day", but not in the way you'd expect.

I faintly remember being 5 or 6 years old and going to work with my mom when she worked for some computer company, doing data entry and hard drive backups. This was back in the mid-1980s, before cloud computing or server backups were a thing. I mainly remember sitting on the floor, playing with some Legos, and then being made to sleep in a data entry room when it was bedtime (she worked 3rd shift, and the daycare I normally went to was temporarily closed for some reason).

A couple of years later, I went to work with my dad. He worked for a landscaping company, and his job was to walk around certain parts of Downtown Atlanta, trimming tree branches, watering landscaping outside of certain buildings, and a few other things. I remember being on top of a couple of the buildings and looking down.

When I was in Fifth Grade, my mom came to check me out of school to take me to her employer's annual company picnic. I have very faint memory of that. It wasn't the same employer as before; it was a laboratory she worked for.

In Sixth Grade, she checked me out again, this time to attend the company's Christmas party. Again, different employer than the last two. We were also going to drive down to Florida to visit my biological father and his family. I only remember doing my math homework at a table near my mom's workstation and they had a Coke machine that dispensed the carbonated water and syrup from separate spouts. Best damn Coke I'd ever had.

When I was in 8th Grade, I attended a "Careers Education" class where we learned about job searching, interviews, and a few other things. One day had us going to "work" at local companies that partnered with our school. I remember going to the local Kroger with a few other students. Others went to a few factories around the area. Some came back with souvenirs. One factory did styrofoam molds, and they came back with styrofoam airplanes or books. Another day had us going to work with our parents. I went to work with my mom, who had gotten a job at yet another laboratory. She worked in Microbiology, and so I got to test some samples, take readings, and also helped in the Chem lab for a bit. They also did some QA/QC type testing, and there was a box full of pencils and other stuff, free for anybody who wanted it. I took a few packs of pencils.