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Bringing your kids to appointments
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Rant beginning:
Look I like kids. I have some at home. They are great. However, if I had an appointment with say... a lawyer I would NOT bring my kids. Having to do a consultation with people about serious financial matters while their kids are around SUCKS.
I get it, some people can't get babysitters, etc. but man does it suck for everyone involved when you bring your children to a lawyer's office.
In some cases it's fine, like my one client who brought her 3 kids. Why? Because they were well behaved and quiet AND over the age of 4 and colored quietly. But some of her kids were old enough to know what bankruptcy is, and not paying bills, and lawsuits, and I really don't like discussing this stuff in front of kids.
My other clients always bring their 2 yr old and she runs around the conference room trying to touch everything. Just like any 2 yr old would do. Our conference room is NOT child proof, we have pens, and calculators and glass things and sharp corners, and the lawyer in me cringes when I see her try to touch things for all kinds of liability reasons.
The other day this same client brought his 2 yr old daughter and she was running in the conference room and fell right into a sharp corner of a desk, splitting open her forehead. It was awful and I felt bad. AND we're bankruptcy lawyers and so he told me to please not say the word "bankruptcy" around his daughter because he didn't want her to learn the word. The mom in me wants to understand, but the lawyer in me wants to say leave your damn kids at home people, or get a baby sitter, or re-schedule, OR figure it out.
Rant over. Yes I imagine some people will not agree with me, but kids just don't belong in some settings.
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Re: Bringing your kids to appointments
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Yeah we also realize here that it's probably harder for people to find child care given they are filing for bankruptcy. BUT just FWIW, many of clients make decent money they just SUCK at managing their money, and they CAN afford to hire a babysitter just don't want to. Anyway bankruptcy lawyers are plagued with getting rid of debt for people who almost always drive fancier cars than them. It's a running joke around the office. You know you're a bankruptcy lawyer when... your clients drives a dope car. Anyway whatever.
So yeah we don't institute a no child policy because we would be afraid to scare people away and my boss and I both have small kids so we really want to be sympathetic but it makes our job so much harder to have to worry about kids running around. And seriously that one girl falling and hitting her head on the corner of a desk didn't help.
Someone suggesting child proofing the offices, but no way can we do that because we share office space with other attorneys would not approve of this, plus really you can't child proof the corners of the desk and keep a professional setting. Obviously I try to move sharp scissors and stuff out of the way, but kids always find a way to make something sort of safe, into something dangerous, like jumping on a chair!
Anyway just as an aside those same clients came today and DID not bring their daughter! Probably because she split her forehead open last time they came so they learned their lesson!
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Whaaa? I would be very annoyed.