Monday, June 15, 2009

Childhood Memories

What did you want to be when grew up? What did you imagine yourself being or doing? (Ages 12 and under)

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  1. As the youngest in the family, I always wanted to be older than I was. It didn't seem to matter to me as long as I was older. In 2nd grade I did an assignment for school on New Years Resolutions, goals, etc. There was a part that said, "When I grow up, I want to be a _______." I went up to my teacher and asked, "What do you call someone who just goes to school just to go to school?" A little confused she said, "A professional student?" I then wrote down, "I want to be a professional student just like my sister Rebecca." (Who was actually in college studying elementary education at the time.) I obviously looked up to Becca enough to say I wanted to do whatever she was doing. Other than that, I always just wanted to be a wife and mother. I never had a dream job I wanted to do other than that.

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  2. I have a little booklet that I made when I was in kindergarten. In it, includes some of my likes, dislikes and wishes. One of the pages asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew two pictures. One was of a police woman and the other was a teacher. The police woman must have been one of those passing phases because I never really had the personality for that type of job, but being a teacher was always high on my list (and continued to be since I graduated with a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education). As kids, we spent many summer months playing school in our basement with all the neighborhood kids.

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  3. When I was young I said I wanted to be either a teacher or a secretary. I became both. I was a secretary for the seminary curriculum department and graduated in English Education at BYU. I didn't really teach much except for student teaching and I taught an evening English class for Granite district one semester. However, I still love teaching (most recently teaching the laurels for 6 years)

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  4. I have wanted and still want to be a great many things. I have studied nutrition, music, cooking, family consumer science. The one thing that I have always wanted is to be a wife and mother.

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  5. A biologist. I am highly influenced by what people say and in my high school freshman year my biology teacher said I would make a great biologist. My graphic arts teacher said the same thing, but I ranked a biologist higher.

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