Comments on: Home Business: Getting Your Kids Involved

By: postcard marketing

postcard marketing — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:22:52 +0000

Great post. Most of my early training on developing work ethics was from home. Involving kids in your home business will teach them the principle of work and personal responsibility. They’ll get to learn how money is made and not be wastefull.

By: Angie (Losing It and Loving It)

Angie (Losing It and Loving It) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:16:35 +0000

Excellent post. I don’t have any kids at home but when I was in direct sales, the owner of the company had 8 kids and all of them were involved in some form with the business. Pretty exciting to show them that they don’t have to go out and work a job unless they really want to and that it is possible to work at home.

By: Scott Tousignant

Scott Tousignant — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:20:43 +0000

This is an excellent share Lynn. My 8 year old son has already shown many signs of his entrepreneurial spirit and mindset. I love your advice about telling them that you need their help. You are soooo right about that.

In addition to running our online fitness business, my wife runs a daycare in our home. Shayne is a big help and on busy days Angie says that she could use his help and she’ll pay him $10. That excites the heck out of him.

You ROCK Lynn!

Scott Tousignant

By: Olivia Montgomery

Olivia Montgomery — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:51:58 +0000

Hi Lynn, I’m so glad you wrote about this. I’m a homeschooler and I also have an online business. My kids weren’t too excited about the whole “work at home” thing. It took some of my time away from them. But now, they have joined in on the entrepreneurial wagon. I am giving my kids an entrepreneurial education and we love it! My 12yr. old has a cake decorating business (and he is good), and my 14yr. old is about to start an eBay business. It’s exciting to see what all of this has turned in to. I even outsource some of my work to them. It’s great! Yes, you can do this and grow your family closer together. It takes time to show them what to do, it’s sometimes easier to do it myself, but it’s so worth it when I have taken the time with them. They are learning great things and they feel like they are a part of my business instead of my business taking mom away from them.

Thanks again Lynn,

Olivia Montgomery

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:50:32 +0000

Hi Lynn, I’m totally with you there. My six-year-old daughter has been curious for quite some time about this. She has her own blog (about Dora The Explorer) and gets so excited when she makes a sale or some google adsense money. Having her “earn” her own money, is so much more rewarding than just giving her a little allowance.

Now that she’s in first grade, it’ll be good practice for her writing skills as well. And boy are you right about them being good with technology. My daughter showed her grandma how to make a blog post the other day – that was fun to watch

Thanks for the tip about the tax break, I’ll definitely have to check into that.

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