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What Do Your Children Want to be? #17091 05/30/08 08:56 AM Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 353 PA E elh0706 OP Member OP elh0706 Member E Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 353 PA Given the recent post about college choices I thought this might be a fun topic. What do Your Children want to be as Adults? My 9 year old either wants to be a fish or a marine biologist.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? elh0706 #17092 05/30/08 09:00 AM Joined: May 2008 Posts: 2 M mathymom Junior Member mathymom Junior Member M Joined: May 2008 Posts: 2 My ds11 wants to be an astrogeologist, traveling to the other rocky planets to learn more about their geology in person. He figures he is on track to be among the first to travel to Mars. My dd9 wants to be an engineer and study paleontology as a hobby.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? mathymom #17093 05/30/08 09:04 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest DS7: engineer, artist, car designer, scientist, architect, author, race car driver...all-around renaissance man! DS4: Astronaut Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? mathymom #17094 05/30/08 09:05 AM Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 797 acs Member acs Member Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 797 DS 12 wants to be a wolf biologist. He has been reading about pack behavior for years and has seen a few captive wolves. He just saw his first wild wolf this month. He is really passionate about anything wolfy.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? elh0706 #17097 05/30/08 09:15 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,134 K kimck Member kimck Member K Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,134 This is a fun topic! DS7 - doctor or marine biologist DD (reminding us often she'll be 4 next week) - ballerina or circus performer Just for the record, we have no history of coordination or grace in our family!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? kimck #17104 05/30/08 09:36 AM Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,815 Dazed&Confuzed Member Dazed&Confuzed Member Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,815 DSalmost8: engineer, scientist at NASA, - seems to be an ongoing theme at this board! DS5: no idea

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Dazed&Confuzed #17109 05/30/08 10:03 AM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 OHGrandma Member OHGrandma Member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 GS8, botanist.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? OHGrandma #17110 05/30/08 10:13 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room DS2 either (1) Diego - animal rescuer or (2) a race car driver. He's all about adventure and speed.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17111 05/30/08 10:20 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Fun! DD8- Teacher DD5- Scientist- the kind that blows stuff up. They're eating Pizza Hut right now and say pizza maker would also be cool.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17112 05/30/08 10:21 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Are any of you doing what you wanted to be as a child? I wanted to be an aeronotical engineer, which is so far from where I'm at now. If I had it to do all over again, I'd want to be an architect.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17118 05/30/08 10:25 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... At my girl's ages I wanted to be a teacher. Kind of doing it now. During college I envisioned myself sitting in a room by myself getting paid to research and write. Still sounds good!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17120 05/30/08 10:30 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Sort of, though I came back around to it after trying other things. I'm (allegedly) a writer now (though I've done precious little writing lately!), and that was what I wanted to be in elementary school. Funny. I hadn't though about that. It never hit me that I'm doing what I used to want to do when I was a child. Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17121 05/30/08 10:31 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Allegedly, guffaw! So modest!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17122 05/30/08 10:34 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Sadly, no. Not modest. Just honest. If you don't do any writing for the better part of a year, I don't think you can call yourself a writer. I've dabbled a bit, but I haven't exactly been driven to write. Not good... Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17124 05/30/08 10:38 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Kriston, you're an incredibly talented mother, teacher, and writer. Any one of those jobs stands alone - yet you're managing all 3.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17125 05/30/08 10:39 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Sing it, sister!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17126 05/30/08 10:39 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest You're very kind. Wrong, but kind! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17127 05/30/08 10:40 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Of course, I blame all of you for your siren's song that keeps me from writing. J'accuse!!! <smirk> Self-control? Discipline? What are those? Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17128 05/30/08 10:41 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room I'm fascinated by those executing their childhood dreams. I only know of one person doing it. As a young child he knew he wanted to be a physicist and where he wanted to go to school. He teaches physics at a university now and went to CalTech, Stanford, and Cornell.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17130 05/30/08 10:42 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Originally Posted by Kriston Self-control? Discipline? What are those? All aboard the train of guilt -- ditto in the realm of work/studying and unhealthy eating.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17131 05/30/08 10:43 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest See, that takes drive and ambition. That wasn't how I got here. I meandered toward my dream. Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17132 05/30/08 10:43 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... I find that amazing as well. There are those have such a clear view from such an early age and never seem to waiver. It that's the case for C-dog, I hope she moves to a neighboring state. I don't want to be close when she is "blowing stuff up"!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17133 05/30/08 10:44 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest LOL, 'Neato! Did I mention that DS4 asked for "a soldier with bombs and stuff" for his birthday? OMG, are those two made for one another, or what? I hear wedding bells... Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17134 05/30/08 10:48 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Oh Kriston, don't get me started...... You guys are really not THAT far away. We will have to meet up someday!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17135 05/30/08 10:50 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Kriston, you may want to edit that post real quick for name

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17136 05/30/08 10:55 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Yes, please edit Kriston. The unknown/lurkers/etc. make me nervous. There are several times when I've accidentally typed DS's name and had to go back and erase it.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17137 05/30/08 10:56 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Oops. Nice catch. Thanks! That['s what I get for trying to do two things at once... Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17138 05/30/08 10:56 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Kriston and Neato - wistfully... maybe one day there can be a family reunion for our message board.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17139 05/30/08 10:57 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... One time I name dropped and then logged off. When I came back I had a courtesy PM about it but it was too late to edit it. What color are you painting your dining room?

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17140 05/30/08 10:58 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Yikes! The "troll" incident was a rude awakening for me.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17141 05/30/08 10:58 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... A get together should be a goal, that would be great. I should be cleaning, at least you are attempting to something productive!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17142 05/30/08 11:01 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Plus I do discuss the girls alot, personally. It wouldn't be fair to them if they could be identified by my chronic posting. Oh the horror!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17143 05/30/08 11:02 AM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas! S squirt Member squirt Member S Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas! Pud says: after college and "graduation school", I want to be a daddy who stays at home with the kids. Okay, so maybe we'll just skip the higher education part ($$$) and let him be a mechanic until he's a daddy (like when he's 35!). He also asked me if his wife would let him stay home and would I ask her when I picked her out for him? As a child, I wanted to be a historian, President of US, or a rocket scientist. Ended up a software engineer because I finally had to just choose a major and get out of school and earn a living. I'd still like to be a historian - it's fascinating. But, hard to make a living at it without a PhD.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17144 05/30/08 11:02 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room This will probably sound boring... it's a light gray with the most subtle hint of blue. I like the contrast of metal, wood and glass. I'd describe my home as rustic contemporary. (e.g., The centerpiece on my dining room table is a creamy low bottomed glass bowl filled with moss - in the center is a bird's nest filled with greenish rocks.) There is very little clutter or things in my home. Since I was a kid, I've made my living area sparse to help clear out the mental clutter. I probably sound nutty.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? squirt #17145 05/30/08 11:04 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Originally Posted by squirt Pud says: after college and "graduation school", I want to be a daddy who stays at home with the kids. Okay, so maybe we'll just skip the higher education part ($$$) and let him be a mechanic until he's a daddy (like when he's 35!). He also asked me if his wife would let him stay home and would I ask her when I picked her out for him? OMG Squirt - I l-o-v-e your son!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17147 05/30/08 11:05 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Yes, Pud is tres cool.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17148 05/30/08 11:05 AM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas! S squirt Member squirt Member S Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 323 Back in Texas, alas! Thanks, Ann, he comes up with some pretty funny things sometimes. I might have to get the wife part down in writing to show him when he's 18. Last edited by squirt; 05/30/08 11:06 AM.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17149 05/30/08 11:05 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Ann, sounds lovely!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? CFK #17150 05/30/08 11:07 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Originally Posted by CFK When he was younger he wanted to be a garbage collector so he could hang off the side of a truck. Love it - LOL!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? CFK #17151 05/30/08 11:09 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Originally Posted by CFK When he was younger he wanted to be a garbage collector so he could hang off the side of a truck. Priorities! Love that! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? squirt #17152 05/30/08 11:09 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Originally Posted by squirt Thanks, Ann, he comes up with some pretty funny things sometimes. I might have to get the wife part down in writing to show him when he's 18. Oh, yes - please tuck it away in a journal about DS. What a neat little boy.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17153 05/30/08 11:09 AM Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 485 New England crisc Member crisc Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 485 New England DS5 usually tells me he wants to be various professional sports players. AS a child I wanted to be a mom. My wish came true. Crisc

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? crisc #17154 05/30/08 11:11 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Both my kids want to be dads, too, crisc. I think I always assumed I would be a mom, but I don't think I put that in my list of aspirations. Though in 1st grade, I said I wanted to be a "farmer's wife." We have it in writing. So much for the strides made by feminism in the 70s...LOL! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17155 05/30/08 11:13 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Kriston!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ YOUR PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17156 05/30/08 11:14 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Crisc, that is so wonderful. I was a snarly teenager and swore I would NEVER have children! So glad I didn't know what I was talking about.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17157 05/30/08 11:18 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Originally Posted by incogneato Kriston!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ YOUR PM!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're cracking me up! I was responding as you wrote that, ya' goof! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17158 05/30/08 11:26 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Sorry, folks, got a little carried away.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17159 05/30/08 11:33 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest I have a permagrin pasted on, 'Neato. You're such fun! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17160 05/30/08 11:34 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Oooh - I like "permagrin." I was just thinking about how Neato makes me smile.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #17161 05/30/08 11:37 AM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... Aw shucks

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17166 05/30/08 12:55 PM Joined: May 2006 Posts: 865 southwest C cym Member cym Member C Joined: May 2006 Posts: 865 southwest DS6 is the only one who will say what he wants to be: a surfer and a doctor. Note that we live in a land-locked state!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17168 05/30/08 01:02 PM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 347 Isa Member Isa Member Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 347 I do not know what DD4.5 wants to be when she grows up but I think I may have a future 'Judy Dench' in my hands.... This is one of the areas where she is not underachieving LOL! When I was 5 I wanted to be a poet and painter. Then as a teenager I wanted to be a doctor and do research. Then at the end of High School I changed again my mind and wanted to study Physics. Once I started University I toyed with the idea of changing to Mathematics but did not do it. I never had in my mind to be a 'housewife' but here I am .... Now when DS is a little bit older I would like to do ,,,, any ideas? suggestions?

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Isa #17175 05/30/08 02:24 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,917 st pauli girl Member st pauli girl Member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,917 I just asked DS4 what he wanted to be when he grows up. Not surprisingly, he said he wants to create Tower Defense computer games and/or video games. And play them too. And he says he'll create them very quickly so nobody has to wait so long for the new versions to come out. I can't remember what I wanted to be. I still don't know! Being a mom is working well for now, though.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? st pauli girl #17185 05/30/08 02:50 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 OHGrandma Member OHGrandma Member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 I wanted to be a math teacher, until I realized I don't like more than 1 or 2 children around at a time! I'm a programmer/analyst now, but the computer industry hadn't taken off when I was in school. Only a few kids had calculators in high school, I still have my slide rule someplace. Can you believe my father-in-law thought computers were a fad just 20 years ago?

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? OHGrandma #17187 05/30/08 02:52 PM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Originally Posted by OHGrandma I wanted to be a math teacher, until I realized I don't like more than 1 or 2 children around at a time! LOL! Love this! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17190 05/30/08 02:58 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 OHGrandma Member OHGrandma Member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 Originally Posted by Kriston Originally Posted by OHGrandma I wanted to be a math teacher, until I realized I don't like more than 1 or 2 children around at a time! LOL! Love this! haha, I should clarify that, I don't like being around more than a couple of people at one time no matter what their ages. I can do it, but it's a major exertion for me.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? OHGrandma #17192 05/30/08 03:03 PM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Understood. Introverts of the world, unite! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17194 05/30/08 03:09 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 OHGrandma Member OHGrandma Member Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 830 Originally Posted by Kriston Understood. Introverts of the world, unite! ummm, sure, as long as we don't have to get together!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? OHGrandma #17197 05/30/08 03:14 PM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room Ann Member Ann Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 179 painting the dining room

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? OHGrandma #17198 05/30/08 03:20 PM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Originally Posted by OHGrandma Originally Posted by Kriston Understood. Introverts of the world, unite! ummm, sure, as long as we don't have to get together! ROFL! Maybe I should have written "Introverts of the world, go have some much-needed alone time!" You're on a roll today, OHG! Love that! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17203 05/30/08 03:42 PM Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... incogneato Member incogneato Member Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,231 up in my head....... LOL, OMA! ROFL!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? incogneato #17211 05/30/08 05:11 PM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 516 EandCmom Member EandCmom Member Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 516 DS7 told me today that he wants to invent a teleporter so we can get rid of all other forms of transportation and we can all just travel anywhere we want any time we want. I told him that sounded like a great way to solve the current gas price problems!!!! LOL!!!

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? EandCmom #17212 05/30/08 05:28 PM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest <Oooo oooooo ooo oo-oo oo oo/ Oo oooo oooooo ooo oo-oo oo oooo...> (In case you can't tell, that's my version of the first two lines of the Star Trek theme song, the original.) Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17227 05/30/08 08:40 PM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 435 B Belle Member Belle Member B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 435 DS5 has told us for the past year that he wants to be a Tornado Chaser Scientist and study weather :-)

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Belle #17257 05/31/08 10:52 AM Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 347 Isa Member Isa Member Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 347 So I asked DD: 'I want to study the rainbow' Then she said as well the plants and the laptop

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Isa #17271 06/01/08 08:15 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest This article crossed one of my lists, and I thought it was relevant to this discussion of childhood goals: http://www.more.com/lifestyle/memoirs/my-so-called-genius/ She writes about precociousness and how that affects later success (or lack thereof). It's a good reminder that smart is nice, but perfectionism and lack of hard work pretty much guarantee that you won't fulfill your promise...and then with age, you can get past all that and just be you. There's a paragraph on page 2 that I ought to frame and put over my computer. Perfectionism, be gone! Be good, not great! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17272 06/01/08 08:34 AM Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 155 Southwest A aline Member aline Member A Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 155 Southwest Oh, Kriston, I LOVED it! I remeber panicking when I realized (belatedly) that the only skill I had was being brilliant.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? aline #17273 06/01/08 08:43 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Originally Posted by aline I remeber panicking when I realized (belatedly) that the only skill I had was being brilliant. LOL! For me it was the pressure of being voted "Most likely to succeed" in high school. Oh, no pressure there! Um...Succeed at what? How? Can someone draw me a map? Hello? Anyone? So, yeah, I hear you, aline! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17276 06/01/08 10:41 AM Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 485 New England crisc Member crisc Member Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 485 New England Thanks for the article. Some of her points really hit home with me. I just asked DS5 when he wanted to be when he grows up and he told me, "A baseball umpire". He went on to tell me that he thinks he would be great at determining strikes and balls. Crisc

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? #17285 06/01/08 08:48 PM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest LOL, kcab! Yes, the name of Pippi's house is Villa Villekulla (sp?). "I'll take 'Obscure Kid's Lit Names' for $200, Alex." <smirk> Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? #17287 06/02/08 06:07 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Oh! LOL! The string sounds to me like he made it up. The names Cody and Savannah are too current to sound like Pippi and the animal names too normal. You can't name a monkey Mr. Nilsen (sp?) and then call anything a mere Flipper or Splash. Asia (the continent) is mentioned in the books in reference to Pippi and her father's travels, but I don't think it's used as a name in any other sense. But that's just my take. Maybe it's in the book and I just don't remember it. I hope not. I like it better if your son put it all together! Kriston

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Kriston #17291 06/02/08 09:13 AM Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 302 KAR120C Member KAR120C Member Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 302 It sounds like Pippi's name... Pippalotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter Longstocking. DS wants to be a blacksmith, and has for about a year and a half now. If he keeps it up for a few more years I have a friend who has a friend who has a kind of "high-end" blacksmithing business (mostly door and cabinet hardware, and locks), and she said she could probably set him up with a summer internship... but it's another case of you have to be "this high" to reach the anvil... LOL Erica

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? KAR120C #17293 06/02/08 10:03 AM Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 353 PA E elh0706 OP Member OP elh0706 Member E Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 353 PA I hear that when I was 5 I wanted to be a music teacher so I could teach everyone all the songs I knew that no one else did. By High school I wanted to work for either the CIA or the consular service. I do teach my son music now but am in a very boring cubicle job.

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Ann #18687 06/30/08 03:20 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,897 chris1234 Member chris1234 Member Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,897 ds7 - illustrator, writer, mad scientist and REAL ESTATE agent, which just cracks me up! DS2 - as far as we can tell, a dancer. self - wanted to be an 'eye doctor'. Turned out to be a programmer and mom, but I have had a couple of frantic opportunities to do eye-trauma triage (tiny piece of dust in eye!!!! aaahh!!!! mooooom!!!!) https://twitter.com/asimom, https://contributingfactor.wordpress.com

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? chris1234 #18709 07/01/08 04:46 AM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 50 New York, Hudson Valley RPM9 Member RPM9 Member Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 50 New York, Hudson Valley Ph. D. Mathematician/like his favorite uncle. DS10 has never wavered on that one. "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." -Roger Lewin

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? RPM9 #18712 07/01/08 05:05 AM Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 304 Mommy2myEm Member Mommy2myEm Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 304 DD9- Anything to do with animals/nature: snake scientist (eek!), veterinarian, Jane Goodall's assistant, "cat whisperer" DS3- leaf blower (I assume he meant a person who uses one, not the actual tool but who knows)

Re: What Do Your Children Want to be? Mommy2myEm #19150 07/07/08 08:46 AM Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 778 Midwest D delbows Member delbows Member D Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 778 Midwest DD13 wants to be a doctor and DS11 wants to be a physicist/engineer/inventor/aviator/author.