[html]oh I love love the idea about the parent coming to share about their job. I'm definitely going to do that!!
I'm a previous homeschooling mom and when my daughter was in first grade here at home we did things like that. We had a month of community helpers and it was so much fun. I live very very rural and I had some of the volunteer firefighters drive their fire truck to our house. It was priceless when the kids saw it. It was a great lesson on fire safety they gave the kids too. Then we had a sheriff deputy come and explain what he does every day. We had the local water company send the inspector out and showed the kids how the system here works. We are on a local well but also have our own well at my dads house.
My dads family owns a business and they have farms and gardens etc. when my husband is in the state (he works in la) we take the kids to the farms and gardens etc. we also have chickens and the kids beg for the animal helper job every week lol.
Homeschooling is a pretty common thing here so there are a lot of support communities and they don't mind involving me. But inviting the parents over to explain what they do is a great idea. I'm so totally going to do that.