My 4-year old’s ambitions
Ellie’s thoughts on jobs have been pretty limited until recently. She knows the teachers’ jobs are to teach her things. She knows that my job is taking care of her and Matthew. And she knows Sharon’s job is driving to work so “she can sit in the chair and make money.”
Ahh, if only we could all have that job.
But recently she’s been learning about other people’s jobs and has begun expressing interest. And I figured, hey, she’s almost 5…she should start earning her keep around this joint, so I’m encouraging her!
Anyway, she saw a bee this morning and was going on and on about how she hates bees, and she wants bees to go away, and blah, blah, blah. I pointed out that bees make honey, and that changed her mind quickly! For some reason (gee, I wonder why), she and Matthew LOVE honey lately. Anyway, this got into a big discussion about where honey comes from, who collects it, and how we get it.
A few hours later she wanted to know what a bee sting felt like. Never actually having been verifiably stung by a bee, I guessed and compared it to a shot at the docter. (She’d just gotten one a couple of days prior, and was very brave during the experience.) She thought for a few minutes, and then announced that she was very brave and she was going to be a beekeeper. But if she got scared she was going to be an astronaut. And if she didn’t like doing that, she’d be a mother. And if she didn’t like that, she was just going to stay at home and do nothing.
Hey, why are you looking at me like that?
