YOU JUST BLAH BLAH BLAH ALL DAY

FIVE CHILDREN ON WHAT THEIR PARENTS DO FOR WORK

claire, 5: “She bakes and delivers cookies. And she does homework at her work. She doesn’t do kid homework. She does grown-up homework. She works for cookies.” parent: Nicole Halsey, chief of staff to Mayor de Blasio and owner of These Little Cookies. celia, 11: “My mom does a lot of calls during the day and talks to a bunch of different people. I don’t think she realizes how loud her voice gets. Like today, she was just walking around and talking while holding her computer to get steps for her Fitbit. And I was telling her, ‘Be quiet! I’m trying to work.’” parent: Karen Rundlet, journalismprogram director at the Knight Foundation. cecilia, 6: “She works for sales. She sells technology, but I don’t know what kind. She uses a serious voice. She says ‘sales’ and ‘they’ and blah blah blah. She’s on the phone a ton. She had phone calls all day until five.” parent: Jill Kunkes, strategic-account director at BrightTALK. leo, 9: “Every Saturday, she does Saturday Night on Broadway, which is a virtual hangout with her castmates from Beetlejuice. She does FaceTime writing meetings too, because she’s writing a musical with my dad and their friends. I think it was hard for her show to shut down because she had made so many friends with people in Beetlejuice.” parent: Jill Abramovitz, Broadway performer. milo, 10: “My dad works in the ICU. He’s a pulmonologist. They’re lung doctors. And whenever he was working in the ICU, he has to go to a different house. And if he’s not in the ICU, he still has to go to work. I don’t know what ICU stands for. And I can’t hug him because he’ll have to take a shower first.” parent: Dave Miller, ICU doctor.