| Karen Schwaller |
| What Should I Be? by Karen Schwaller Children begin dreaming about what they want to be before they even start school. Firemen, doctors, nurses, farmers, football players and ballerinas would be plentiful if children always became what they dreamed about when they were very young. In these pages, little Emily doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. There are so many choices! She and her mother talk about all kinds of career options...such as becoming a great cook, a judge, a seamstress, doctor and lots more. But what would be the BEST thing for her to do when she grows up? Only her mother knows! |
| Author Karen Schwaller is a freelance writer, speaker, farm wife and farm mother. She has written for newspapers in Northwest and Central Iowa on a full time and part time basis for 30 years, and in the midst of it, worked in full time children’s and youth ministry for 14 of those years. Working with children and youth was something Karen enjoyed very much. Still today she enjoys teaching young children through a mixture of seriousness and silliness that seems to catch their attention and be effective. Karen feels that teaching children is where it all begins, and that giving them positive role models and reinforcing their positive actions and characteristics, the world can be changed for the better. Karen and her husband farm with their two sons, and their daughter is also involved in agriculture as a career—being a territory sales manager for a seed company. Karen and her family also hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany (Jana Scholze) during the 2005-2006 school year, whom they also consider to be part of their family. |