Let Little Kids Play.

My first blog of the weekend was going to be about the super shindig I went to last night but, after checking the morning news, I was blown away by this:

"The committee drawing up the nation's first childcare curriculum has been told that toddlers in daycare should be given early career counselling. Kate Castine, who runs the Principals Australia career education project on behalf of the federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, is calling for "career development concepts" to be included in the new curriculum to be introduced nationally by July 1. Her concern is that little children rarely think beyond what their parents and relatives do for a living."

I'm sorry, what was that? You think toddlers should be aware of their future career development? Should they be stressed about the current economic crisis as well?

What. The. Hell.

Having previously worked as a swimming teacher to toddlers, sure, they may form some ideas of what they want to be when they grow up but, if we were to support career development from that age, there'd be a hell of a lot more astronauts, tap-dancers and policemen in the world.

Fun dress-ups with pretend stethoscopes and lab coats is as far as kiddie career development should go.