Children's funny ambitions

[TooManyGlasses]

My DD (9) has just asked if she can be a supervillain when she grows up. Should I be worried? 

So now I'm collecting! What do/did your kids want to be? Go on, make us laugh! 

A few weeks ago my 3 year old said that when she grows up, she wants to be a shovel maker and make shovels

We have the You Choose book. On the basically career ambitions/job page there's a nurse and a patient in bed being cared for. DD2 wants to be the patient when she grows up She actually has a very caring nature so I did have to clarify which bit of the picture she aspired to 😂

When she was 3 DD decided she was going to be a pair of talking pants........!!!!!!!!

The 7 y old wants to build a wooden village in our nearby woods and have wooden engines and no cars, computers or other modern technology. But there will be electricity. There will be bridges leading from one house to another.

The 6 y old wants to be a scientist and make potions. Either that or be a photographer. Or a dancer.

Dd(6) wants to be a mummy and live in my spare room. Also be a year 2 teacher.

DS (2) wants to be "a pig so he can roll about in the mud all day".

Fair enough.

These are lovely! My DD has been laughing at them too. She's perfected her supervillain cackle already... 

I remember my friend at primary school wanted to be a banana.

My 11 year old until recently wanted to be a serial killer, she had ir all worked out but luckily like Dexter was only going to kill bad people. Now she favours being an accountant or a police woman, slightly disappointed in a weird kind of way.

I actually have a notebook filled with these because when I asked my DS at 2 he said he wanted to be a red dinosaur. I found this entertaining so every few months asked him and recorded what he said and then was DD was old enough to talk her too.

We’ve had responses such as

DS(3)the black power ranger
DS(5)a mum ....he was heartbroken when I told him that it didn’t seem likely
DS(7) an assassin
DS(now nearly 10) a vlogger (because of course sighs)

DD(2) a cat
DD(3.5) a phone so she can talk to anyone...not that she wants one, she wanted to be one.
DD(now 6) a pop star .... this has been the favourite for over a year now and goodness...she can’t sing. I love her dearly but she is completely tone deaf!

Friend’s DS wants to be a horse

A friend's daughter wants to be an ice cream van. Not OWN an ice cream van, or work in one, actually BE one. I think that's great.

Ds6 had a brief phase of wanting to be a Dr, as he spent a lot of time in hospital and was impressed with all the magic things they can do. He's now changed his mind and wants to be a teacher, but a SUPER teacher who also has powers.

DS, aged 5, wanted to be a sausage dog when he grew up. He's now 12 and glad to report he no longer has that ambition

My DS aged 8 wants to be an ice cream man and has done for a year or so. He seems quite set on it, I think it's just so he can eat ice cream when he's not serving anyone else!

Simple here: teacher or architect. Teacher, as he likes his teacher. Architect, as he likes building secret bases and making things. He's 6.

My ds (6) is going to science school to tell everybody about the solar system. Won't be convinced at science school they will teach him about the planets. He will tell them.

DD's original ambition for when she grew up was to be an elf so she could help Santa. She's currently applying to uni to train as a teacher, so she's blown that ambition!
As I remember I had two:
A farmer's wife (not the actual farmer, this was the 70s).
Mr Tickle. I was utterly desperate to be Mr Tickle because he could reach the biscuit tin without getting out of bed.

Forty years later I can report that I am neither, although I do happen to have rather long arms...

The small daughter of woodsman that I know announced she wants to be a coppicer. I guess it's in the blood and more likely than the "coppers wife" which I thought she said, although she could be that too.

When my daughter was younger she wanted to be Mr Maker. She still lives craft.

A biscuit (she was 2).

My eldest (5) wants to be a run in the Olympics. He runs to school and back every day! My youngest wants to be a dolphin! He’s 2.5. Slightly off topic but I asked my eldest when he was about two if he was a boy, he said no, girl? No, so I sai what are you then? And he said gorgeous! I said the same to my youngest the other day and he again said he wasn’t a boy or a girl but a vampire!

My best friend wanted to be a paleontologist and a priest on Sundays. Two completely conflicting ideologies, but she wanted this from age 3-10!

My 20 year old DD wanted to be a window cleaning mermaid when she was three.

DS now 5, has for the past year declared that when he grows up he will be Father Christmas.

I actually achieved my childhood ambition of working in a particular library, when I went home one uni summer holiday. It was great, I loved it.

My eldest when asked in school aged 4 what he wanted to be when he grew up;

'I want to be God'