Is this your two-year-old? I figure you have a good decade or more before you should really worry about career choices at all, and by that time your daughter will doubtless have many ideas of her own, which then may change over time.

You can't make any useful guesses at all about her long-term aptitudes for or interests in different fields, based on a visual test at or before the age of two. Well, I guess if she were functionally blind you could tell that she wasn't cut out to be a fighter pilot, but you know what I mean. You and your husband seem to be too focused on the results of this single visual perception or comprehension test, whatever it was. Did you know that children's test scores can change radically during the early years? You don't have close to a stable long-term picture of your daughter's intellectual or other aptitudes at this point, much less enough info to engage in career-oriented academic planning.

I think you should take a step back and re-assess your priorities. Your daughter should have plenty of time for free play and exploration at this stage, not a directed education. In addition an attitude such as a feeling that your daughter is not terribly creative might well be expressed in ways you won't even notice, and wind up giving your daughter a less positive self-concept. How the heck could you possibly draw a valid conclusion that your daughter isn't creative at two?

Get your daughter some paints, crayons and clay, and let her play. There'll be plenty of time for hothousing her later.


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