My Children’s Aspirations

Today, my two-year-old told me, “Mommy, I’m going to be a scientist!”

I encouraged her, “Oh, that would be fantastic.  To be a good scientist, you need to go to school and learn lots of things.  It will be so much fun to learn about science.”

My little one responded, “When I go to school, I’m going to learn how to jump rope.”

In the mean time, her five-year-old sister had gotten out paper and crayons and was diligently working on an art project.

When I asked her what she was making, she replied, “It’s a game. You have to follow these lines I drew to get to the end, but if you don’t do it right, you end up in the dungeon, where you get all cut up.”

6 comments

  1. Wow! If only jumping rope would guarantee scientific success…. I would still suck as a scientist. Jumping rope for more than a minute or two is surprisingly hard.

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  2. If the explosive tendencies of some of my scientist friends are anything to go by, what you mostly need is the ability to run away when the test tube starts fizzing.

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