Let’s imagine!
Thinking about the future is fun! What can you do as parents to support your child’s exploration and consideration of future careers? So glad you asked!
- Talk about your own work. What do you like about your job? Why did you choose it? How did you prepare for your job? What else would you like to do?
- Point out careers you see around you.
- Encourage your child to ask others about what they do in their jobs (here’s a sheet to support this activity from the kids’ section – Word | PDF
- Play pretend with them!
- Give them jobs to do around the house and relate the importance of their current work to their future work. Work ethic is important no matter the job.
- Talk to your child about the value of work: what would happen if no one picked up the trash, drove the bus, grew food to eat, cared for sick and elderly, taught students, or played music or sang a song? We NEED the valuable work that each person provides.
- Read Adventures from Granny’s Basement: Exploring Careers in…to them! Or listen to them read the series to you, and ask them what they think about each of the career clusters/pathways.
Note from the author, Sarah Miesner Goldammer:
The Adventures from Granny’s Basement series was written without describing Frances and Henry. This was done on purpose! Please encourage children to imagine themselves as Frances or Henry. It’s never too early or too late to begin imaging oneself exploring careers. Encourage thinking today what life COULD be. Next encourage thinking about what steps are needed to make that dream come true.
Always imagine!
The Adventures from Granny’s Basement series was written without describing Frances and Henry. This was done on purpose! Please encourage children to imagine themselves as Frances or Henry. It’s never too early or too late to begin imaging oneself exploring careers. Encourage thinking today what life COULD be. Next encourage thinking about what steps are needed to make that dream come true.
Always imagine!