To feel sorry for the child whose Mother I overheard saying....

[IwishIwasmoreorganised]

....when I asked him what he wanted to do when he was older he said he wanted to be a teacher. I asked him why he didn't want to have a more important job like being a Doctor or a lawyer or something.

Um, isn't being a teacher an important job then?

I feel sorry for that poor child having a mother with such warped ideas of importance!

Replace "important" with "highly paid" and you'll see what the mother really meant.

I think she is thinking of money

IwishIcouldunderstandyourpost!

DS wanted to be a bin man a while back. Now there is an important job. If there were no bin men..........

YA clearly NBU. That is perfectly respectable, as opposed to little girls saying "model" or "lap dancer."

I am a teacher now, having trained as something else originally. My careers teacher at school when I was 16/17 told me that I was "too clever" to become a primary school teacher, when I said that is what I wanted to do. . She talked me right out of it, and as a result it cost me a bloody fortune to retrain as an adult - grrr.

Luckily pregnancy and sleep deprivation have dumbed me down a bit now!

Ok, I get it now (thick emoticon)

And should you not be called "IwishIweremoreorgnised"?

Yes Lynette I think you're probably right that it probably all comes down to money.

Sorry Corky, I didn't mean to confuse you!

Lynette - should I? (I don't frequent pendants' corner for obvious reasons!)

I'm really not a pedant, but an old boss of mine used to pick me up on my was/were - I wouldn't worry the BBC often gets it wrong.

Maybe you should ask some pedants over in the corner.

iwiwmo

YANBU. That mum sounds like a snob. Also, shouldn't she be trying to encourage her child to respect his teacher? By saying that she is discouraging her child and denigrating his teachers (who he obviously likes, because otherwise why would he want to be a teacher?)

Makes me a bit

My son (only 4 admittedly) is absolutely dead set on being a nursery teacher. I am a lawyer and Daddy is in the Navy - clearly not careers he wishes to follow!!

Lots of teachers in my family and several friends too - very important job imo, although I would be useless at it.

LynetteScavo. Too right about the bin men!

I think it's wonderful to hear children saying they want to be teachers - gives me hope for a generation that a) like teachers and school and b) respect a fundamentally important job.
(I'm not a teacher BTW!)
YANBU. What a foolish thing to say (the mother).

Was the mother in question our very own Xenia?

DS wants to be a chef and a scientist.

Heston Blumenthal watch out

Just asked Ds what he wants to be and he says 'a bus'

Oh dear

Most years the Y4 class do a small poster display about What They Want To Be. Most are normal 8/9 yo things like "Play for Real Madrid" "Ride horses all day" "Win an olympic gold" etc. But every single feckin year there are ones that say:

"I want to be an accountant and earn lots of money"
"I want to go to the best school and best university and then be a lawyer/doctor"

At that age, I suspect strong parental input

Shame on the mother - what a foolish and ignorant thing to say.

When I was 17 I was told at school not to "waste" my high grades by doing teaching. So I didn't 'waste' them. I studies economics, hated it, never finished. Now I'm just a SAHM. What a waste huh?

She sounds like an idiot, defo agree about the money thing.

Asked DS2, and he wants "to put things back to normal" when he big.
Teachers are great, what a daft thing for that mum to say.