Future professions

2 hours kiora - only grandparents would do that.

One of my grandaughter's aged 7 wants to be a famous author another aged 5 an Olympic swimmer. My grandson wants to be an astronaut

Grandad and I. Have just been subjected to2 hours of a dancing show staring our 5 year old granddaughter. Dressed in a tutu ballet shoes a tiara and lots and lots of tinsel. We are not sure what this implies about her future but what we do know is whatever she decides to do she will definitely be bossy!

I was watching GD1 (aged 4) doing her impersonation of Darcey Bussel one day (very elegant) and I asked her what she'd like to be when she left school, she looked at me down her nose and replied witheringly 'A ballet dancer',
'And what about you?' I asked her younger sister (aged 3, and sadly about as elegant as I am) 'A dinosaur' was the answer.

GD aged 4 couldn't wait to tell me something that was a bad thing to say. When I held my breath and asked her to tell me what she was desperate to repeat the reply was, with mischievous eyes, "what the heck"!! To which I had to reply, "oh, dear, that is bad", then she was happy.

She also informed me that when she is a lady, she is going to marry Grampa and have a baby!

ana they are the highest tides for 18 and a bit years apparently - but no northerly winds pushing them down the east coast this time.
Someone told me that her daughter aged 4 stood on the stairs with her arms folded and said "when i grow up i am going to be a lawyer and put you in prison mummy". She is now a lawyer.

My nephew wanted to be a pilot from when he was 2, he is now 33 and an international airline pilot, DS1 wanted to be a popstar, and became one, DS2 wanted to be a writer - he sill hasn't quite got there, but is on the way and DD wanted to be a hairdresser from when she was 18 months, and now runs her own hairdressing business ...however DGD wants to be peppa pig.... I guess she could get a job at peppa pig world !!

PPS

I have never heard her swear before and she wouldn't know she said something wrong.

Sorry, POGS, my last post was delayed because I had to look up the Tide Tables for DH who is worried our garage will be flooded again - it was meant to follow on from my first post!

They are funny at that age, though, aren't they? GC, not DHs

They are, however, two years ahead of their reading age in the national reading statistics guide. Perhaps I should be giving them something more challenging!

Ana

Neither does mine really. She knows I am boring and watch the news and BBC Parliament avidly and knows what Parliament looks like because of it.

The joke was she was parroting me and hubby found an Ali.

Crikey, POGS, your GD seems very informed for her age! My seven-year-old GDs have no idea about government policies and/or their own university prospects!

I thought about this thread today.

Out with GD aged 7, as previously mentioned, when we said "Oh back to school next week Heather" She said "Well I don't mind school but mummy said she has put money in the bank for university, she said the government take it and I go to university if I am clever enough". I said "Oh, that sounds good". Heather replied "N o I don't think I will bother the b----y government has enough and wastes it".

I nearly choked and my hubby said. "Now you know what I have to put up with, she got's that from you".

These aspirational stories are really funny. A very cheering thread.

GS1 had a light bulb moment when he was 5 and a theatre company came to school. He suddenly realised you could dress up for a living. He loves his sessions at Stagecoach so much that he even missed his best friends birthday party rather than give up a session. He's a bit torn though as he also thinks he might be an engineer like Daddy.

DGS aged 8 has wanted to be a scientist since he was 3 and has never changed his mind. DGD aged 3 wants to be a make uper (I think she means make up artist) and practices on me at every opportunity!

no nutty he never did. I was left Lucy-less

JESS M

And did he?

DGS aged 7 said yesterday that he either wanted to run a Hot Dog stand or be a professional wrestler.His ambitions change weekly,luckily.

My 4yr old DGS wants to have his own safari park. He loves anything about animals.

Anything that will enable him to buy a Ferrari !

My nine-year-old GS has expressed and ambition to be a stand-up comedian. We think he is one already.

Sitting with Luke my youngest DGS a few weeks ago he said he wanted to be a Bin Man when he goes to work because they finish work at 2pm then he can come home and watch cartoons on TV or go to play football

Dragonfly - your GS sounds just like mine - he wants to be a paleontologist too! He too is 5. I bought him a dinosaur quilt cover for Xmas, having trawled the internet for one that had scientific realism rather than cartoon dinosaurs. I found one from Germany. However, he studied it in detail and, whilst thanking me for it and saying he loved it, informed me that one had too many toes and another should have a fleshy hump on its neck......etc!

When he was much younger he and I were playing a game in which I was helping him to discover dinosaur bones. I said that I was a paleontologist's assistant - he looked very puzzled and said: "What's an assistant?"

He also fancies being a rock star - so I have him down as a sort of neo-Brian Cox!

My DGS latest ambition is to work in MaccieDees and drive an Aston Martin.