Woo-hoo, it's Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day! This year's theme: Making Choices for a Better World.

There are no kids in our office today. We're thinking the holiday may have jumped the shark. Here are a few theories why:

1. They made the already too-long name Take Our Daughters to Work Day even longer when they added Sons in 2003. More importantly, this move diluted its original mission, which was to get more women in the workplace and to make sure young women knew that they could make their own money.

2. Back in the day, the holiday was very rah-rah, yes-you-can, little girl! But now when you tell the official site's Dream Calculator you want to run the country, it's all, "Are you sure?"

("If you were elected President of the United States, our highest elected man or woman, you'd work a high-stress, round-the-clock job filled with secret service agents, daily briefings with military heads, economic advisors, lots of telephone calls, lots of pressure. . .")

2. No one today needs a reminder that their parents work hard. Along these lines, Helaine Olen has a screed against the holiday in today's Newsday. She says: In a world of home offices, moms on the playground taking business calls by cell phone, and dads answering queries on their BlackBerries at school events, it's quite likely that children are all too aware of the importance of paid employment to their parents. What they really need is a lesson in the value of taking time to kick back and relax.

3. Unemployment is so high right now that the day is just serving as a reminder for many that they have no workplace to bring their kids to. It's kind of a depressing time to be trumpeting the glory of the American workplace.

But maybe we're wrong, and the holiday is still as popular as ever. Will you and your kids be celebrating?