Fun things your little ones want to "be" when they grow up...

[BikeBookBread]

Today in PDG's class**, the children were asked to share what they wanted to be when they grew up.

 

Most kids gave some pretty fun answers (mermaid, a "worker" on that crazy TV show "Wipeout", a warrior, a queen)...then PDG said she wanted to be a... TIME LORD!! :smilielol5: The other children had no idea what she was talking about. (I think this may be a sign we've been watching too much Doctor Who at our home lately.)

 

What interesting vocational aspirations have your little ones voiced?

 

**PDG is in public first grade...not sure how much longer this will last. DH actually conceded last night that we WILL be homeschooling 2nd, for sure; however, I'm still holding out hope to finish first grade at home.

[Dmmetler]

DD's current goal is to be a snake charmer. I think it's because that way she gets to BOTH have a pet snake and play the flute (which are stated goals of hers).

[DragonflyAcademy]

My DD wants to be a Clone Trooper under the command of Rex... she's BIG into Star Wars.. has been for years!

[ScoutTN]

Lifeguard princess - both at the same time - is DD's current one.

[GWOB]

DD3, our resident diva, wants to be a Pink Princess Superhero. God help us all if she succeeds.

 

DS7 wants to be an Inventor/Rock Star. He previous goal was to work at an ice cream shop.

 

DD10 went to ps K. When asked what she wanted to be, she said "A Mom." :001_wub:

[Food4Thought]

DD4 wants to build robots. Or drive "Mighty Machines". The funny thing is that she is the girliest little girl possible!

 

DS6 wants to be an entymologist and study caterpillars. He has also wanted to be a tinker, ninja, Mad Scientist, and an artist.

[athena1277]

My kids have never picked something usual, but a boy I used to babysit was a huge Ninja Turtles fan (this was soooo long ago) and he wanted to be a.....pizza man!!

[wy_kid_wrangler04]

When my now 4 year old ds was 3 he said he wanted to be a dinosaur when he grew up :D He has not said anything since so I should ask him when he comes in LOL. My 5 year old wants to be a cowboy but we live in rancher land so thats to be understood LOL

[Annie Laurie]

My 6 yr old tells me a new one almost every day. Yesterday he said he'll own a store and everything in it will be healthy and all the meat will be from animals on small farms, no industrial farms. Dh says I've brainwashed them well, I proudly agree. :D

 

His other thing is he's going to be a "builder". So he says he'll build the store and then run it. And also cook a lot of the things in it. Nothing like multi-tasking.

[susancollins]

Jackson who is five says he wants to be a daddy, and a fireman.

Carrington who is six says she wants to be puppy doctor (vet), and a mommie.

Carson who is two says he wants to be a Monkey.

[ElizabethB]

My daughter wants to be a Mythbuster. (We have watched a lot of episodes since we joined Netfix a few months ago. We do not have a TV, we just have Netflix and DVDs.)

 

She also wants to work with animals, and she even knows that most of the animal jobs she wants involve poop scooping.

[athena1277]

Oh, wait, my dd did want to be something odd - a dog! A real, live, fur covered, barking, eating from a bowl on the floor dog! :lol:

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

My 7 yr. old wants to be an astronaut, a chef, AND a picky eater. :confused:

 

The 6 yr. old wants to be a Jedi when he grows up.

[Dobela]

When ds10 was about 5 he cnnounced that he was going to be a dump truck when he grew up - because they get to play in dirt and rocks all day LOL!

[sleepymommy]

My youngest wants to be a "puncher guy" ( a boxer). :tongue_smilie:

[Lacie]

DS5 - at first said he wants to be a mommy, so he can cook good food and be with is kids... now he says he wants to be a doctor, so he can make people better

 

DS3 - wanted to be a garbage man, he thought that would be a really fun job... now he wants to be a doctor like his brother

 

We got a kick out of DS3 wanting to be a garbage man, it is a very odd job for a little kid... most want to be something glamorous, something seen on tv or held up by people as heroes... he wanted to be a garbage man, while a very needed and honorable job, not usually looked up to

[myfunnybunch]

I have one who wants to be a Family Man and a composer/architect-engineer/chef, one who wants to live on Mars and study space rocks, and one who doesn't care what he does for a living as long as he can live in Mexico.

 

Cat

[bookfiend]

DS5 - at first said he wants to be a mommy, so he can cook good food and be with is kids... now he says he wants to be a doctor, so he can make people better

 

DS3 - wanted to be a garbage man, he thought that would be a really fun job... now he wants to be a doctor like his brother

 

We got a kick out of DS3 wanting to be a garbage man, it is a very odd job for a little kid... most want to be something glamorous, something seen on tv or held up by people as heroes... he wanted to be a garbage man, while a very needed and honorable job, not usually looked up to

 

My son, now 11, also wanted to be a garbage man when he was 3. He thought riding along on the outside of the truck looked so fun. He used to play "garbage man" and hang off the outside of furniture making truck noises. He would proudly tell anyone who asked, he was going to be a garbage man when he grew up. That lasted for 2 years. Then we moved on to cowboy/missionary/fireman; now we are at professional football player. Garbage man will always be my favorite!

[i.love.lucy]

My son, now 11, also wanted to be a garbage man when he was 3. He thought riding along on the outside of the truck looked so fun. He used to play "garbage man" and hang off the outside of furniture making truck noises. He would proudly tell anyone who asked, he was going to be a garbage man when he grew up. That lasted for 2 years. Then we moved on to cowboy/missionary/fireman; now we are at professional football player. Garbage man will always be my favorite!

:iagree:It's the hanging off the truck that gets them. And for my ds, it's the cool gloves.:confused:

 

Right now he wants to be a cowboy fireman too, but army man is starting to come through sometimes. DD still wants to be a NICU nurse.

[AndyJoy]

When my sister was 6 she declared, "I want to be a beauty parlor I grow up." :lol: We still tease her about it sometimes.

[Julie in Austin]

5yo wants to be a "soda maker."

[Mom-ninja.]

Well, my middle ds told me what he does *not* want to be when he grows up. He does not want to be a daddy. When I asked him why he said, "Because kids are way too much work."

 

 

:lol: He's a very observant boy.

[ladydusk]

N-boy, age 4.5, "I want to have a 'portant job! I want to be an astronaut, a firefighter, and a DAD!"

[Amy in NH]

dd5: a fairy or a princess, and a ballerina, and a mommy

ds8: a wizard

ds13: doesn't know - used to want to be a giraffe

ds15: influential (and a wizard too)

[Miss Sherry]

When my youngest was about 6 years old she said she wanted to be a pizza maker when she grew up. She got this idea from going to Papa Murphy's, where her older sister was working at the time.

[Miss Marple]

When ds#1 was about 10-12 years old, he wanted to be Rush Limbaugh. He thought it would be mighty fine to be able to give his opinion about everything, argue with those who didn't agree, and get paid a bazillion dollars to do it. I knew then that he had entered the logic stage.

[Carrie12345]

Just today, my 7yo told me she'd like to be a vet... or a pizza girl! :lol:

[LauraGB]

Ds wanted to be a pizza guy when he was 5. When he was 8 he wanted own the parlor and be the chef. Now, at 11, he wants to own several pizza joints in every state :D. He also wants to be a professional fisherman (on the side, of course). I'm interested to see what he comes up with by 16.

 

Dd has always wanted to study and work with polar bears, but at 11, she is deeply concerned that her time is running out.

[Holly]

My DD wants to be a gymnastics coach. DS wants to be a rocket science teacher...I'm not sure what they do, but I'm pretty sure they get paid less than a rocket scientist.

[Farrar]

A Beni Hana Chef.

 

I WISH he'd said Time Lord!

[Violet Crown]

My dd-now-14 when seven years old wanted to be a special agent for the FBI, and a nun. At the same time. I thought it would make a good prime-time series.

[hillfarm]

My younger brother wanted to be a hockey.......puck, not player!:D

 

My niece wants to work at McDonalds so she can push the button to open the drive-thru window.

[Mom2J112903]

Right now J wants to be on Wipeout and a surfer-in Hawaii.

[Dmmetler]

When ds10 was about 5 he cnnounced that he was going to be a dump truck when he grew up - because they get to play in dirt and rocks all day LOL!

 

 

One of the little sweethearts in my DD's class last year came to school on "what I want to be when I grow up" day dressed as a tractor. Not a farmer, or someone who drives a tractor, a tractor.

 

Of course, I couldn't say much-my daughter went in her "dragon trainer" costume.

[ilovemy6kids]

My dd just wanted to be a mommy. She wanted 101 girls and 1 boy.

Sheri

[Joyofsixreboot]

When ds, now 9, was 3 he wanted to be a dragon. My 6yo wants to be a ballerina mom.

[KIN]

My oldest boy, when he was 6, wanted to have a hot dog stand. His 4 year old brother was going to make the cheese and buns for the hot dogs. I liked that they were thinking about working together! :D

[MamaT]

My sisters were on a morning children's television show once when they were 5 and 7. When they asked my sister, who was 5, what she wanted to be - she said a sewing machine. My mother almost died.

[Wyndie]

My youngest wants to be Spidergirl. The others have less...unusual asperations. :)

[FairProspects]

My ds actually told the Superintendant of Schools (my MIL is the Executive Assistant to the Super.) that he didn't need to go to school, because he was going to be Darth Vader when he grows up!

[hsm6kids]

My oldest wanted to be a woman when she was little, an attainable goal ;)

DD 2 wanted to be a duck:001_huh:. The rest had pretty reasonable goals but my niece wanted to be bread :confused:

[Kim in Appalachia]

.then PDG said she wanted to be a... TIME LORD!! :smilielol5: The other children had no idea what she was talking about. (I think this may be a sign we've been watching too much Doctor Who at our home lately.)

 

 

 

Maybe someday she could be the 20th Doctor's companion. :001_smile:

[ElizabethB]

My dd-now-14 when seven years old wanted to be a special agent for the FBI, and a nun. At the same time. I thought it would make a good prime-time series.

:lol:

 

That could be a really fun book, too.

[ThelmaLou]

My 15 year old previously wanted to be a magician and a detective.

My 13 year old wanted to work for Lego.

My 11 year old wants to be an artist.

My 9 year old used to say he wanted to be a bird when he grew up.

My 3 year old wants to be a Boy Scout.

[Amy in KS]

My ds5 says he wants to be the first missionary doctor to the moon!

[mrsrevmeg]

My oldest has said since he was in 2nd grade he wants to be a NASA scientist. But President of the US wouldn't be so bad, either.

 

My middle son decided when we went to Wal-Mart and let him use the self-check aisle that he could work at Wal-Mart because it is easy.

 

My youngest wants to work at Huhtamaki (making Chinet paper plates) and be a missionary and climb mountains in his off time. (My husband works for Huhtamaki. He works a swing shift so he is off 14 days out of each 28 day shift-cycle)

[mrs.m]

DS5 wants to "go to college and be a scientist"

DS8 wants to be a meterologist (he's very very very very scared of storms though, so I'm not sure how this one will work out!)

DD10 hasn't said much about this lately. I may need to ask her what's on her mind.

[LittleIzumi]

My favorite was a dragon fairy :lol:, and then she switched to a scientist who works with microscopes, and now she wants to be a mommy. She's 4.

[Peela]

Dd wanted to be a gardener.

I think ds has always just wanted to be rich. :001_smile:

[3littlekeets]

For the longest time DS 7 wanted to be a sanitation worker because he loved the book Trashy Town so much. Then, he decided Mr. Gilly's job might be a bit too messy, so a stunt man is his current dream ... guess that's only messy when the brains hit the concrete :glare: -- hoping he'll move on :D

 

DD 9 wanted to drive the Barbie car in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, and now aspires to be a dental tech because she loves blowing up the gloves as balloons:lol:.