"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

This question seems utterly ugly and wrong. Not only is this question asking a child to consider themselves in relation to career paths at a young age but is teaching said child to define themselves by that path, implying that your job essentially defines you as a person. What do you want to BE? Further, it is implying that there is necessarily even a choice to make in the first place, as if you need to decide on one occupation and stay with it, or worse, that you need to decide on the content of your self and stick to that plan. The worst part is that it is also implying that there is a distinction between you as child and you as adult, as if you already aren't yourself. I think we should ask our kids "what do you want to be right now?"