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Family Life Encouraging the Entrepreneruial Spirit Are you looking for a way to challenge your child's creativity? Why not encourage entrepreneruialism in your teen? Childhood entrepreneurialism is often assoicated with lawn care and snow shoveling services that teens provide for neighbors and lemonade stands, but there are many ways that your students can go into business for themselves. Below are a few ideas:
According to Mike Smith of HSLDA, the classic tagline for entrepreneurs is “making a job, not taking a job”. But that doesn’t mean that your teen has to go it alone. Throughout history, children have been going into business together in groups. The Girl Scouts sell cookies, the Boy Scouts sell Christmas trees, and church youth groups raise money by doing everything from holding car washes to having bake sales. Encourage your kids to hook up with others who have the same desire to start their own business. There are many ways that lessons in entrepreneurship can contribute to your student’s other studies. For example, learning to balance a budget and paying your bills in a home business sharpens math skills. Writing out a business plan involves extensive research and writing skills. Studying what consumers need will expand your student’s interest in current events. Youth entrepreneurialism is a growing trend these days, so why not consider it in your homeschool. A small business project will teach your teen about success and failure; how to win or lose with grace. That is a lesson many adults in this world have never learned. Your teen will learn if they fail that they need to just get up, dust themselves off, and start again. A home business project will also forge good work habits and goal setting skills. The life lessons that can be learned from running your own business are well worth the effort.
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Patti Chadwick is a freelance writer and creator of two websites: