Teach your kids how to be creative
and make money. Then the money they get, 50 percent goes in their 50 house
account, percent goes in their toy
account. My kids love this stuff. Some of the entrepreneurial traits that
you've got to nurture in kids attainment, tenacity, leadership, introspection,
interdependence, values. All these traits you can find in young kids, and you
can help nurture them. Look for that kind of stuff. There's two traits that I
want you to also look out for that we don't kind of get out of their system ( raising children).
Don't medicate kids for attention
deficit disorder unless it is really, really freaking bad. The same with the
whole things on mania and stress and depression, unless it is so clinically
brutal, man. Bipolar disorder is nicknamed the CEO disease. When Steve
Jurvetson and Jim Clark and Jim Barksdale have all got it, and they built Netscape
-- imagine if they were given Ritalin. We wouldn't have had that stuff, right?
Al Gore really would have had to invented the Internet. These skills are the
skills we should be teaching in the classroom as well as everything else. I'm
not saying don't get kids to want to be lawyers. But how about getting
entrepreneurship to be ranked right up there with the rest of them as well?
Because there's huge opportunities in that.
Hopefully this inspires you to take
what you've heard from me and do something with it to change the world. Because
a lot of what we consider impossible is easy to overcome. Because in case you
haven't noticed, we live in a place where one individual can make a difference. Just look at
the people who built our country; our parents, grandparents, our aunts, uncles,
they were immigrants, newcomers ready to make their mark ( raising children).
Maybe they came with very little, or
perhaps they didn't own anything except for a single brilliant idea. These
people were thinkers, doers , innovators, until they came up with the name
entrepreneurs! They change the way we think about what is
possible. They have a clear vision of how life can be
better for all of us, even when times
are tough. Right now, it's hard to see when our view is
cluttered with obstacles. But turbulence creates opportunities for
success, achievement, and pushes us to discover new ways of doing things. So what opportunities will you go after and
why? If you're an entrepreneur you
know that risk isn't the reward. No. The rewards are driving innovation ,
changing people's lives. Creating jobs. Fueling growth. And
making a better world ( raising children).
This is Adam Norman, a 30-year-old father and a journalist. I consider being a father as my full-time duty, which comes before my actual job of journalism. As a father, there will always be new challenges for me to face everyday while raising my kids. This is where the idea of this website came from. I wanted to give out my experience, along with the experience of others, to all parents out there who need an advice with raising their kids.
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