{"id":53993,"date":"2015-11-17T00:31:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cookiesandclogs.com\/?p=53993"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:45:36","slug":"kids-future-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookiesandclogs.com\/kids-future-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Your Kids’ Future Education Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The other day my daughter had an assignment in which she had to describe what her life would be like in 5-10 years. I guess schools are already getting kids ready for that infamous question used in job interviews \ud83d\ude1b I also found out that, in the Netherlands, many kids have to make their career choices at the age of 11 or 12 years old. What a tough decision to make at such a young age!<\/p>\n
Munchkin had to really think about, mostly because she\u2019s so undecided as to what she wants to do.\u00a0One profession we\u2019ve talked about is physical therapy. She\u2019s very good at helping people and she\u2019s clever enough to pick up on human biology and medical terminology.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, she loves art and is extremely creative. She could really excel in some sort of digital animation or creative media development. Decisions, decisions… What is sure is that she will need some kind of extra education outside of her normal high school courses.<\/p>\n
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Since she is in homeschool<\/a>, Munchkin has the opportunity to take some classes at the local college starting in the 10th grade. That means she can already start accruing college credit while in high school and at no extra cost to us. While that\u2019s all good and dandy, what will we do if she needs to take extra classes after graduation though?<\/p>\n While WHAT she wants to do is still a mystery, at least we have the HOW part down. We have an account with ScholarShare<\/a>, California\u2019s 529 College Savings Program, and are saving for when she\u2019ll need books, tuition, and maybe even living expenses. It\u2019s not much but each bit we put in now will help for later on. Man, we should have started her account years ago when I first learned about the program<\/a>! We could have saved so much more over the past 14 years!<\/p>\n