How did your parents react when you told them you wanted to be a nurse?

[futurern_.]

Just wondering:sarcastic:. Still going through that stage.

[armychris]

They had no problem with it. It was actually my Army PA that made fun of me for it more than anything. :)

[windsurfer8, BSN, RN]

My parents threw me out of the house at 16. I graduated HS and joined the military. Then got out and went to bet my BSN. I could care less what my mommy and daddy think about my career.

[jedwards3]

"Atta boy Gaylord (Greg Focker)"

[spinny87]

They said, "Why no doctor!"

[labordude, BSN, RN]

My mother is a nurse. My stepmother is a nurse. Two aunts and four cousins are nurses. Not one single person said anything negative...except my high school guidance counselor who laughed at me. And then of course there was the clinical instructor that told me I should find a new major. 9+ years of nursing later in several specialties with multiple degrees she can go walk off a cliff.

[RNDude2012]

Considering the trouble I gave them in high school, my parents were just happy I went to college! It was really just older high school friends who commented negatively about it, telling me I'm better than sponge bath's, etc. etc. I make more money than all of them now.

[happyinmyheart]

I know this is the men in nursing forum and I'm a female but...

My mom was dissapointmented. She wanted me to do communications or marketing. Also wanted me to join a sorority.

So now I'm a nursing major (and not in a sorority).

#dissapointmentchild

[NursKris]

Im a nurse and female. When my now 22 yr old son told me he wanted to become an RN and then eventually get his NP or CRNA, i jumped for joy!! Love the fact that he wants to follow in moms footsteps and is now in his senior year of his BSN, maintaining a 3.9 GPA and loving his clinicals and loving every minute of a PAID summer internship at a local hospital. I love when he comes home all excited about what procedures he did that day, who RRT'd, etc. LOL. Go figure, my son wants to be a nurse and my daughter doesnt want any part of it LOL.

[Anna2015]

U set a good example for him.

[BonhamsGhost]

My folks were happy, nervous, and totally supportive.

[ChrisBSN]

My mom was extremely supportive, and still is. My dad still won't tell people what I'm majoring in, and I'm a sophomore, almost a junior in nursing school lol. He knows that I eventually am considering doing Nurse Anesthetist, so when people ask what I'm doing he says "Anesthesia." Or he tells them "Medicine," or "Medical classes." He pretends like it doesn't bother him, but I've never once in my life heard him say that I was majoring in nursing. He goes out of his way to make sure not to say that actually. I've also gotten from a couple people at my Church, the typical "huh, couldn't make it into medical school huh?"

[hawaiicarl, BSN, RN]

I was the first one in my family to go to university. Long line of laborers, meat packing plant kind of stuff. They were thrilled any of their kids were going to university.

Cheers