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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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