We need to stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up. As a former college teacher, here's what I'm doing with my teens instead.

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Ever since my four children were small, adults would predictably ask them, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Plenty of young ones want to be someone they deem heroic, like a firefighter, or something that sounds cool, like a magician. It's all fun and games, until it's not.