Terabith Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Would your children rather be professional YouTubers or astronauts? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I think I have one of each. 🙂 Earlier today, someone said something about my youngest maybe going to the moon, but she responded, "not the moon - Mars!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Huh. That's a question. I'm going to go with YouTuber. Those guys clean up. And my kids are better people than, say, Logan Paul. I admire astronauts and if my kids wanted that, then I'd be there for it. But when I watch astronauts, sometimes my fear of heights kicks in just looking at the video and I feel sick. I think I'd probably combust of stress watching my kids do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann.without.an.e Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 My kids would be horrified at the thought of either of those choices 🤣 Way too much publicity for my kiddos. ✌️ 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 My oldest ... astronaut 100% ... he's in Air Force pilot training now. His plans le as n toward test pilot. Middle- well hes a radio and television production major with amateur Ghost hunting show in the works - so definitely YouTuber lol My youngest aspires to be a Flight controller for NASA (specifically in Flight Dynamics) or one of the commercial companies. He also is learning to fly. So, astronaut. For sure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I have an aersospace engineer (wants to do astronautical) - so I'm sure he'd rather be an astronaut. if they had to choose one, I'm sure the others would also choose astronaut. dudeling wants to be a youtuber. He has no clue what that requires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonflower Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I wanted to be an astronaut. My younger kids would like to be professional youtubers. We don't have TV or ipads or smartphones or any of that, but they took to watching (in retrospect, from mildly annoying all the way to truly reprehensible) youtube videos on our work desktop and we've had to ban youtube. It's addictive! I am not sure why. They'd rather watch youtube videos in the dark than play outside most days. The rest of the available computer activities don't hold nearly as much interest (basically, orisinal games and Rescue Bots or Backyardigans, our two approved little kid video options). We also had to ban all of those games that have lots of mirrors all over the internet and often verge on creepy or obscene - crazygames and etc. Some of the effects of youtube binging were sort of cute; they'd make videos of themselves on my very basic flipphone showing the "viewer" around the bathroom or how to make a paper airplane or something. Others were weirder; DD7 in particular, after watching a whole series of them about (I learned later from the history) "instagram hacks," started sort of performing every time she showed me anything. Anyway, no more youtube! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Both my kids would love to work in some way for NASA and are actually casually at this point aiming in that direction. Both are fascinated........both are problem solvers and not likely to ever be the astronaut......one of my childhood best friend’s was an astronaut in the shuttle program. It’s hard work and she never got her ride ......... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I know my niece would pick astronaut because she LOVES space. I know my 12yo would pick Youtuber because he’s not really into space. My 8yo might ponder it for a minute, but I think he’d pick Youtuber. My husband was a space camp kid who went to school to be a police officer and wound up in business and a volunteer firefighter. And also watches a lot of YouTube. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) One would choose astronaut. The other would choose YouTuber 'cause astronauts need to learn lots of math and science. Plus income from doing whatever she'd do on YouTube might pay the bills so she could Do Art. Thankful there are more than 2 choices! Edited July 24, 2019 by marbel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 YouTubers, hands down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 None of mine want to be astronauts, and my oldest is the only one I could see as a YouTuber. He loves to work on cars and has talked about making videos related to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 My kid was too anxious to handle monkey bar heights for awhile and he gets carsick easily, so I don't see astronaut in his future. So probably youtuber? He really likes all things medical though, so he's more likely to do something in that field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth S Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 My son would love to be in Mission Control. He's finishing up a NASA Summer Internship, so it's in the realm of possibility. And Splashdown is scheduled for about 11:45am today . . . as Apollo 11 is streaming in Real Time. 😀 https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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