Ask HN: I will have a 14-year old shadow me at work – any advice?

Their parents are interested in having them get a sense of possible career paths.

I have never met the kid before. I honestly don't even know what this entails - I'm worried writing code is not a very fun spectator sport, so I probably won't walk him through whatever tedious piece of code I'm trying to write. I'm thinking I'll give him a quick overview of what the company does and then maybe just chat about programming with him.

I'm also considering giving him a very easy coding task in Python - not for work, just to keep him busy? - but it's difficult to gauge what's appropriate here.

Any suggestions or advice from people who have done something similar in the past?