Let Them Experience IT!

Parents,  

Let your children experience their own business, selling to customers, being successful, being 

rejected, being in the red and being in the black. 

Let them work for their spending money. 

Let them go with their ideas. 

Let them spread their wings  a bit. 

Let them be encouraged and let them be discouraged by sales and by customers. 

Let them hear the truth from a customer. 

Let them experience consequences.  

Let them experience having a boss or supervisor. 

Let them learn how to organize their displays, supplies, inventory and order forms. 

Let them grow and develop as they were created to be.   

And most importantly of all...

May they grow in favor with GOD and man. 

Leverage your TIME

Friends, 

Be sure to leverage your time. 

Meaning:  if you are going to have a paper route, why not walk a dog at the same time? 

Or if you are teaching one student a new skill, why not four or five at a time? 

OR if you are doing canvassing for one person, why not do it for two people? 

Today the children and I did just that...we hung door hangers for two different people. 

One person is running for City Council, and another wants to advertise her fitness classes. 

Why not kill two birds with one stone and halve the amount of work? 

Leverage, my friend! 

Your time is important. 

Candy Store of an 8 year old

If a child can add and subtract and talk to people, they are old enough for  a business. 

Our 8 year old daughter set up a candy store this week in my piano studio. 

She has sold $8.00 worth of product. 

She is organized, responsible, tracks her inventory, dresses well, and treats customers well. 

What a great learning experience. 

They could never get this experience playing  a entrepreneurship computer game or watching a tv show on how to start your own business. 

Let them go for it parents,  and take the time to help them get started.  

Once they have a taste of it, you'll be amazed at how motivated they are! 

And watch their business ideas grow! 

He who is faithful in little, is faithful in much! 

Successful day!

This blog is written for the purpose of sharing our stories to encourage other moms and dads to help their children set up their own businesses. 

I love to tell stories, so here's several about our day: 

My son, Christian  and I had an appt. this morning at our local Whole Foods store re: having them sell his organic, handmade soap, Starfish Soap.   www.starfishsoap.webs.com

The first question the Asst. Health and Beauty Manager asked him was, "How old are you?"  Her reply, "My you are ambitious!"  

I t was love at first site!  :) 

The professional, child-led meeting was short and sweet (5  minutes or so) and we left her with a sample bar of soap, application filled out entirely, product flyer, Starfish Ministry brochure and a matching business card.  

I have to say, even I was impressed...

On the way home we stopped to tour a Simply Music Colleague's new storefront studio in Rockbrook Village (and she bought two bars of soap!) and at the 4-H Extension Office to pick up the EntrepreneurShip Investigation manuals for Monday night's Kick-off Club. 

Of course we had to make it home in time for their daily paper route and taking my youngest daughter out shopping for her products for Sunday's gig at the BX. 

We organized and inventoried her products, figured out cost per unit, selling prices and projected profits for Sunday.  I told her she couldn't sell  her products unless she could figure out the math problems.  Very motivating!  

Before bed Christian wrote a thank you note to the Whole Foods Managers and offered his services for in-store demos.  

At  bedtime, my youngest daughter came flying downstairs and had to tell me about an idea floating around in her head for selling her products on Sunday.  

I said, "Go to bed now!"  She said, "But Mom, I can't stop these ideas in my head!" 

And she's only 8. 

All in a day's work in the life of the Kidz Biz Whiz...

Join us for the Kick-off!

Welcome to the E-ship Blog! 

We are holding our E-ship Club Kick-off Night on Monday night, September 15th with Vic from Vic's Popcorn speaking to our youth.   

I have a passion for helping students set up their own businesses and my favorite students are my four children!   :)  

The picture is from our latest gig at the NE State Fair in August.  

I am an Entrepreneurship Educator and  have taught in a variety of settings.  

IT's exhilarating to get a student to the point where they have their own business and make that first sale to the public.  They're ecstatic, instantly addicted!  :) 

Stay tuned for many ideas...

Kidz Biz Whiz