I admit. I was anxious. Nervous. I would even go as far to say that I had a a furrowed brow of worry at the thought of the office being overrun by mini versions of my collegagues.
However, all these fears were quickly dispersed over a game of office football.
Speed had a ‘bring your kids to work’ day today and I thought it was fantastic. The kids ranging from truly minature crawlers to walking, talking, cappucino drinking little adults; gave the office a cracking atmosphere today.
The impromptu rugby tackles, random hugging and continuous medium paced jogging were complemented with a fantastic media consumption survey done with the older kids and of course a huge amount of sugar.
The little ones were full of an energy that sparked me to do my first half paced jog since 1992. I think even my press release pitches were enhanced by letting journalists know that, this time around, the burp they heard was in fact a toddler rather than me.
For me, I found learning the media habits of the 10-12 year olds fascinating. All of them knew about illegal downloads and all said they would never take part in such activity. There was a general conscensus that Spotify was a better music access format than iTunes and BBC iPlayer was an invaluable tool for catching up on Doctor Who. @wadds will be putting up a video of the session soon so you can learn from these minature media moguls.
All in all I really enjoyed today although now I do feel a little bit like this little fella:
