To think that this more about what the father wants?

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29516432

He's got her next 20 years of work planned out, yet she is 13 and may yet change her mind. I can't help but wonder which of them really has this as their dream - I'm not so sure it's the girl.

It's hard to say with such a tiny news article.

I scrolled all the way down because I thought I'd missed the rest, but that's really all there is.

I thought it was going to be a story about a Dad forcing his child to work on the family farm or in their ice cream van or something.

It does sound like there's going to be a lot of pressure on this girl, but I can't say I'd be worried.

Yeah right! How many other reasonably bright teenage kids have fabulous dreams? How many get there? Non news story.

No. I think some children DO have that degree of self knowledge. It's rare but it can happen. My friend (who is now a world famous actor) had it planned down the second. He knew exactly where he had to be at different points in his career and it worked out.

I actually read it as the father saying that he has his work planned for the next 20 years.

Those camps aren't cheap, and to be 'sure' of getting in she going to have to do a lot of extracurricular studying, again will need to be paid for.