How can I get my child interested in a science major

[Anonymous]

No need for her to get a science major but have her go into business and learn the business side of catering. Dance education in less she is good is not a major. Or, skip college and go to culinary school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG op she has plans, good ones. At least she doesn't want to be a ballerina or a broadway dancer. That would be risky.

That was her original plan, but she gave up on that when she got rejected from a dance company in New York.

The fact she endured the dance company's rejection, rethought how to use her dance skills, and came up with her new plan shows that she is resilient and realistic. So why can't you see that?

You seem to have a narrow concept of how she can make a living. Please try to be glad you have teen who, instead of being crushed and defeated by being rejected for a dream job, found another way to apply her interests to the working world. Support her by encouraging business classes, further dance training, and serious culinary training.

She is old enough that if you push for her to force a fake interest in science just to please you or just to get you to pay for college...you will alienate her, maybe for life. And she will not keep employment long in science if she studies it only to please you; employers will know her mind isn't really on the job.

Her career plan is not a silly pie-in-the-sky notion. Is she in FCPS? Does she know FCPS has a culinary academy program where she could start working on those skills in high school? Search the FCPS web site using the term Marshall Academy and find "culinary arts" on the academy page. FCPS lets students travel during the school day to high schools that offer academy classes if their own base school does not. So.. Certainly the schools think catering is a real career option. So do colleges that offer degrees in hospitality industry, culinary arts, dance education....This summer, have her research jobs and salaries in catering and dance education; have her research colleges and outline the career path in these fields, etc. Let her see that you'll take her goals seriously if she will seriously research them and make plans on how to spend her last year's of HS.

Please back her up. She will do better and go farther if she knows you are not silently thinking she's wrong and should change her fundamental interests and strengths.

She's in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe if you can yourself invent a time machine? It seems like this die is cast and your daughter has some wonderful interests. Good luck to her in her endeavors! She sounds charming and I hope she has a wonderful time exploring her path.

OP, you might want to do a Google search for Steve Job's Commencement Address at Stanford. Watch the video. It may help you see that there is more than one definition to success just like there is more than one path to success.

I know that, but if she doesn't get her business started or make it as a dance teacher, I would like for her to have a backup plan.

Wouldn't culinary school be the backup plan? It sounds like she's thinking it through.

Having said that, I know a few people who majored in dance while filling the prerequisites for grad school in PT, Athletic Training, or Exercise Therapy (Not sure that's the right term). So, if that's something she's interested in, she could do that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG op she has plans, good ones. At least she doesn't want to be a ballerina or a broadway dancer. That would be risky.

That was her original plan, but she gave up on that when she got rejected from a dance company in New York.

The fact she endured the dance company's rejection, rethought how to use her dance skills, and came up with her new plan shows that she is resilient and realistic. So why can't you see that?

You seem to have a narrow concept of how she can make a living. Please try to be glad you have teen who, instead of being crushed and defeated by being rejected for a dream job, found another way to apply her interests to the working world. Support her by encouraging business classes, further dance training, and serious culinary training.

She is old enough that if you push for her to force a fake interest in science just to please you or just to get you to pay for college...you will alienate her, maybe for life. And she will not keep employment long in science if she studies it only to please you; employers will know her mind isn't really on the job.

Her career plan is not a silly pie-in-the-sky notion. Is she in FCPS? Does she know FCPS has a culinary academy program where she could start working on those skills in high school? Search the FCPS web site using the term Marshall Academy and find "culinary arts" on the academy page. FCPS lets students travel during the school day to high schools that offer academy classes if their own base school does not. So.. Certainly the schools think catering is a real career option. So do colleges that offer degrees in hospitality industry, culinary arts, dance education....This summer, have her research jobs and salaries in catering and dance education; have her research colleges and outline the career path in these fields, etc. Let her see that you'll take her goals seriously if she will seriously research them and make plans on how to spend her last year's of HS.

Please back her up. She will do better and go farther if she knows you are not silently thinking she's wrong and should change her fundamental interests and strengths.

She's in MCPS.

MCPS has a similar program.

[Anonymous]

Two of my grade school friends majored in dance in college and both run extraordinarily lucrative dance schools. One sold her studio at age 35 and retired, receiving royalties for life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MD/PhD husband is at the peak of his research scientist career and makes 100K annually.

Dance and catering ARE real careers.
And she might make more money that way!

This. I'd go with the culinary school tract.

-Signed, another scientist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is she taking calc next year? Physics?

Calculus, yes, physics, no. She's taking chemistry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if you can yourself invent a time machine? It seems like this die is cast and your daughter has some wonderful interests. Good luck to her in her endeavors! She sounds charming and I hope she has a wonderful time exploring her path.

OP, you might want to do a Google search for Steve Job's Commencement Address at Stanford. Watch the video. It may help you see that there is more than one definition to success just like there is more than one path to success.

I know that, but if she doesn't get her business started or make it as a dance teacher, I would like for her to have a backup plan.

Wouldn't culinary school be the backup plan? It sounds like she's thinking it through.

Having said that, I know a few people who majored in dance while filling the prerequisites for grad school in PT, Athletic Training, or Exercise Therapy (Not sure that's the right term). So, if that's something she's interested in, she could do that.

I could support that.

[Anonymous]

My dad told me I would never make any $ if I didn't.

So--I majored in Science and minored in English. He was correct. To boot, since I had a Science B.S., my graduate school was paid for and I got a teaching Stipend in undergrad lab. A lot of science grad students go for free (or seriously reduced) due to lab/research work.

Thanks to dad, I WAH full-time for making $165k. Not having to go in to the Office when you have kids is heavenly.

Who is paying for culinary school (ain't cheap) and dance major? If you can't earn enough to pay it off, don't major in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad told me I would never make any $ if I didn't.

So--I majored in Science and minored in English. He was correct. To boot, since I had a Science B.S., my graduate school was paid for and I got a teaching Stipend in undergrad lab. A lot of science grad students go for free (or seriously reduced) due to lab/research work.

Thanks to dad, I WAH full-time for making $165k. Not having to go in to the Office when you have kids is heavenly.

Who is paying for culinary school (ain't cheap) and dance major? If you can't earn enough to pay it off, don't major in it.

This is another concern. Honestly, she's not that great of a cook...or dancer. I hate to say that about my own child, but it's true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad told me I would never make any $ if I didn't.

So--I majored in Science and minored in English. He was correct. To boot, since I had a Science B.S., my graduate school was paid for and I got a teaching Stipend in undergrad lab. A lot of science grad students go for free (or seriously reduced) due to lab/research work.

Thanks to dad, I WAH full-time for making $165k. Not having to go in to the Office when you have kids is heavenly.

Who is paying for culinary school (ain't cheap) and dance major? If you can't earn enough to pay it off, don't major in it.

What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad told me I would never make any $ if I didn't.

So--I majored in Science and minored in English. He was correct. To boot, since I had a Science B.S., my graduate school was paid for and I got a teaching Stipend in undergrad lab. A lot of science grad students go for free (or seriously reduced) due to lab/research work.

Thanks to dad, I WAH full-time for making $165k. Not having to go in to the Office when you have kids is heavenly.

Who is paying for culinary school (ain't cheap) and dance major? If you can't earn enough to pay it off, don't major in it.

How can you know he was correct? Do you have a doppelganger with an English degree in an alternate reality?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe if you can yourself invent a time machine? It seems like this die is cast and your daughter has some wonderful interests. Good luck to her in her endeavors! She sounds charming and I hope she has a wonderful time exploring her path.

OP, you might want to do a Google search for Steve Job's Commencement Address at Stanford. Watch the video. It may help you see that there is more than one definition to success just like there is more than one path to success.

I know that, but if she doesn't get her business started or make it as a dance teacher, I would like for her to have a backup plan.

Have her learn French and move to France. We don't value science in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad told me I would never make any $ if I didn't.

So--I majored in Science and minored in English. He was correct. To boot, since I had a Science B.S., my graduate school was paid for and I got a teaching Stipend in undergrad lab. A lot of science grad students go for free (or seriously reduced) due to lab/research work.

Thanks to dad, I WAH full-time for making $165k. Not having to go in to the Office when you have kids is heavenly.

Who is paying for culinary school (ain't cheap) and dance major? If you can't earn enough to pay it off, don't major in it.

This is another concern. Honestly, she's not that great of a cook...or dancer. I hate to say that about my own child, but it's true.

Under your control: what you pay for.
Not under your control: what she decides to do.

[Anonymous]

OP, I don't know how you can make someone interested in science at that age. I think it is too late. Just let her do what she loves to do.