my daughter's in class 9. in august it was architecture, after a school visit. september was psychology. this week it's forensic science, which i'm fairly sure came from a series she's watching. i'm not worried exactly. i didn't know anything at 14 either. but her school has started talking about streams for 11th and i'm wondering whether i should be steering her somewhere or just let it run till class 10.
let it run. mine's been through cricket commentator, pilot and now 'something with data' 🙂
Ours went doctor, then fashion, then settled on economics only in 11th. Nothing was wasted, in each phase she read a lot about it. One thing we did was ask her to find one person actually doing the job and talk to them for 15 minutes. Forensic science especially, the real work is lab work and reports, not crime scenes like the shows. Ammayi was a bit disappointed but it helped her think.
same age same pattern. last month it was dentist because of her braces appointments. i've stopped reacting either way, she drops things faster when i don't argue
I'd look less at the job titles and more at what keeps coming back. Architecture, psychology and forensics all have a 'figure out how something works' thread running through them. Our daughter's interests don't match the engineering plan everyone at home assumed, and it helped to stop debating titles and just ask which subjects she enjoys doing homework for. The stream choice comes from that, more than from the career of the month.
Speaking from the other end of it: my son was very certain about his direction at 15, and by his second year of college he talks about it quite differently. I would not read too much into either the changing or a sudden firm decision at 14. What I would watch is whether she keeps maths open for 11th, because that is harder to undo than the career label. Beyond that, I am not convinced a parent's steering at this age changes much.
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