What Would You like your Son and Daughter to be When They Grow Up?

Specialist - Doctor of Medicine
@Muelitz (1592)
Canada
July 4, 2008 7:11pm CST
If you have your way and choose what your kids will be when they grow up, what would you like them to be? I would like my kids to be Doctors as I think they still are the ones which earn the most. What about you?Just Curious, SFC
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
doctors in canada do not earn a lot, they are paid by the government and have a ceiling on what they make, I would have wanted my son to learn the values of being a good human being and money isn't everything. when he was little I just to think of him as being an astronaut or engineer.
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@amigula (119)
• Philippines
6 Jul 08
i have two sons and i wanted to be a doctor or an engineer which i unfortunately not able to make out so i dremt every moment that my twoo kids fulfill my dreams but at the same time i will not force them for this as untimately its their life
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@naseeha (1382)
• India
5 Jul 08
my kid is too small and however hard i think i cannot think of what i would like him to become..Though it is not that i would force my idea on him. It well depends on him to decide and how things work out too. So i would let him decide by himself....
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@YOULANLIU (311)
• China
5 Jul 08
I think I will tell them there will be no special requirements,they should hold their fates in their own hands.They can choose any jobs which they have great interests.But they have to remember one point,they should consider their own value of lives.No matter what kinds of jobs,they can be proud that they have do contribution for other people or the whole society,not just themselves.
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@joliefille (3690)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
If I had my way I'd want them to be scientists. =) Anything innovative they can come up with might help our environment. I'm not pining for Einsten-like children though.
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@Wizzywig (7847)
5 Jul 08
Well, my sons are probably more grown up than I am!! Above all else,I would choose for them to be happy and living the life they have chosen for themselves. I would support them in their choices in anyway that I could. I would hope that they always felt they could talk to me and know how much I love them both.
• Canada
5 Jul 08
I don't have kids, and if I did I would have no right to decide what I would want tem to do when they grow up. Were I to have children, all that I would want would be for them to grow up and have a comfortable and successul life in any way they deemed fit. I would want only what's best for them.
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@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
5 Jul 08
My children are all grown up now, but I wanted them to have a job which made them happy. It's not important to me how much money they earn - and it wasn't important to them, either. They are all in careers they enjoy, and that's the main thing. One of my daughters is in the defence force, and could earn three times as much doing the same job in the private sector - but she would rather stay with Defence than earn more money. Money isn't everything - but happiness and satisfaction is. I would never 'choose' someone's job for them - it's not me who has to do it, after all.
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