A new study shows that the videos Children are watching online can have a bigger influence on how they think about their future than you may expect.

A recent survey from Fatherly and New York Life took a look at what kids these days want to be when they grow up.

The results weren’t all that surprising, with doctor, veterinarian, police officer, firefighter and scientist rounding out the top five.

Via Fatherly:

Based on our survey, the top five professions kids want to be when they grow up are consistent with what we’ve seen in prior years: doctor, vet, engineer, police officer, and teacher. This makes sense. Childhood dreams are less about the strategic deployment and future deployment of specific skills and more about admiration for particular adults or characters. It’s not a coincidence that many of the professions at the top of the list tend to involve interactions with kids or that the one that doesn’t, engineer, is fundamentally about building stuff, an activity many children savor.

What was eye catching is where children report they were most influenced to pick the future careers they did.

The top influencer of child minds, according to the survey, is video content delivered via television, YouTube or movies.

In other words, parents should make no mistake that the content their children are consuming, however innocent, is shaping their young minds. And in an increasingly content saturated world, it’s doing so in ways we haven’t seen before.

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