when i grow up i will become a doctor
When I Grow Up
(Names of the authors have been changed to protect identities)
Jesse B. Age 9
Winner (tie) of 3rd Place Prize for ages 7-10.
Every person is born with a special talent and I think when you grow up people have a chance to use their special talent. Lots of people are born with different talents. I think that it is a good idea to try different stuff. If you find something you really like and you’re really good at it you should go for it. But talents aren’t the only things of growing up. There’s a lot of responsibility. Like people have to pay lots of bills. If there was a big family there would be lots of need for money for food and clothes and stuff to provide a family. But if you lived by yourself there still is lots of responsibility. It’s nice to have a lot of support.
There are some fun stuff about growing up too. Adults get to stay up a little longer than kids.
They can live by themselves if they want to. Being an adult is not all fun, but some parts of adulthood might be nice. I think that when you become an adult it’s just like a toddler you’re a caterpillar, and when you’re a kid you’re a cocoon and finally you become an adult which would be a butterfly.
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Nocole C. Age 9
Winner (tie) of 2nd Place Prize for ages 7-10
When I grow up I would like to be a foster parent, so that I can help children. I am a foster child because my parents couldn’t take care of me, and I am in a foster home.I would like to help children because it isn’t right for kids or teenagers to be treated wrong. Like being smacked or threatened. There are a lot of children taken away from their mothers and fathers and it’s pathetic.
And there are many children in foster care and residential care that need someone to take care of them. I wish I was an adult, so that I could take some children that need someone to take care of them. Anyone who takes any foster children should be proud of themselves. I am glad to have a good foster home to live in and
(Names of the authors have been changed to protect identities)
Jesse B. Age 9
Winner (tie) of 3rd Place Prize for ages 7-10.
Every person is born with a special talent and I think when you grow up people have a chance to use their special talent. Lots of people are born with different talents. I think that it is a good idea to try different stuff. If you find something you really like and you’re really good at it you should go for it. But talents aren’t the only things of growing up. There’s a lot of responsibility. Like people have to pay lots of bills. If there was a big family there would be lots of need for money for food and clothes and stuff to provide a family. But if you lived by yourself there still is lots of responsibility. It’s nice to have a lot of support.
There are some fun stuff about growing up too. Adults get to stay up a little longer than kids.
They can live by themselves if they want to. Being an adult is not all fun, but some parts of adulthood might be nice. I think that when you become an adult it’s just like a toddler you’re a caterpillar, and when you’re a kid you’re a cocoon and finally you become an adult which would be a butterfly.
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Nocole C. Age 9
Winner (tie) of 2nd Place Prize for ages 7-10
When I grow up I would like to be a foster parent, so that I can help children. I am a foster child because my parents couldn’t take care of me, and I am in a foster home.I would like to help children because it isn’t right for kids or teenagers to be treated wrong. Like being smacked or threatened. There are a lot of children taken away from their mothers and fathers and it’s pathetic.
And there are many children in foster care and residential care that need someone to take care of them. I wish I was an adult, so that I could take some children that need someone to take care of them. Anyone who takes any foster children should be proud of themselves. I am glad to have a good foster home to live in and