I believe that we should introduce entrepreneurship to kids as early as possible. Entrepreneurship is a solution to poverty that we many times overlook. Every school should have an entrepreneurship program from as early as elementary school. Do you think we should introduce entrepreneurship to kids as early as elementary school?
Teaching Entrepreneurship to Kids
There are some good ideas to teach entrepreneurship to Kids early in life :
1. Help your child set effective goals.
2. Teach your kids financial literacy. ( Explain the difference between wants and needs, Make sure that your children know that money is finite, Allow your children to make money mistakes, Helping them delay gratification, Teaching them that credit means borrowing money from others at a cost, Stress that money has a time value, Provide a realistic figure of how much money it takes to run the household or business .) .
3. Let children solve their own problems.
4. Foster creativity.
5. Get kids involved in the community.
6. Find “learning lessons” in adversities.
7. Encourage them to learn how to code.
8. Brainstorm business idea with your kids.
9. Be an influencer.
To play devil's advocate... can you think of downsides of teaching that? And, additionally...are not many more important things to teach before that?
Erik Erikson has some work about Initiative vs. Guilt that would make such curriculum tie into development for kids at certain ages.
Childhood need to enriching their knowledge and to play for their growth. So my opinion is entrepreneurship later to include
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Cognitive Science
- Thinking