In reply to Alan Brand.

@Alan Brand Absolutely you can have a bring your grandchildren to work day if you wanted to. I don't find this condescending at all. Just because someone is older and is tech savvy that doesn't necessarily mean they are savvy about every aspect of the tech industry. There are a lot of facets within the tech industry. A lot of niches. I see nothing wrong with this.

@Tada Burke How does having a get together to show employees parents the products, ecosystem, and platforms that their children work on in some way say that the parents are idiots?

To both of you I say this...

My Dad turns 71 years old tomorrow. He is tech savvy. He's owned computers as long as I can remember and we always had one in our house when I was growing up. He's had PC's and he is now an Apple user. He has an iMac, an iPad and iPhone. My Mom is far less tech savvy but she's become an avid iPad user and also uses the iPhone because once she learned how to use the iPad it made it a breeze to use the iPhone.

But here is the thing... despite the fact my Dad is tech savvy they don't necessarily fully understand the WordPress niche and ecosystem. They don't build web sites. They don't use WordPress, although they certainly visit WordPress powered web sites on a daily basis while browsing the web.

They have a general idea of what Gravity Forms is and does. They know WordPress is a CMS and Gravity Forms is a solution for creating all kinds of forms/surveys/polls/quizzes/etc.

BUT I haven't given them an in-depth tour of WordPress and Gravity Forms. I haven't sat them down, gotten hands on and walked them through exactly how WordPress and Gravity Forms work and the types of capabilities that they have and how they fit into the overall CMS and WordPress ecosystem.

Just because someone is tech savvy doesn't mean they understand every aspect of the tech industry and drilling down and giving them a guided tour of exactly what you do, how your product works, the various ways it is used by customers, etc. Providing them with that type of tour in no way makes the person an idiot or in some way out of touch simply because they are old.

I guarantee you that the families at Yoast's company probably absolutely loved the experience and enjoyed learning more about what exactly their children's day to day job entails and all the ins and outs of the products they work on.

The two of you need to lighten the hell up.

I'm sick of people being offended on behalf of other people when the people involved aren't offended at all!