Spark Creative Entrepreneurial Thought Processes In Children With Brain Storming
One of the easiest ways to get your child involved in
entrepreneurship, or at least thinking like an entrepreneur is through brainstorming.
Millions of business owners do this on a regular basis. They focus on finding
new routes to work through money making elements, hiring the right people,
building portfolios, and doing a lot of work that is needed on a daily basis.
In practice, this can help with project planning, management, and more.
Bringing it down to a simpler scale is not complex. It’s a matter of taking the
things that a child does and then compartmentalizing them for efficiency.
The Chore Element
As mentioned in the previous post, chores are a great tool
to tie to entrepreneurship for your child. You can also very easily spark
creativity through chores. When looking at chores that need to get done, you
could take out a piece of paper, or use a whiteboard to brain storm how to get
things down faster and easier. Sometimes the best thing to do is engage with a
child’s visual learning curve. Visual learning uses drawings, more than just
text. It’s easy to write a lot of text lists, but children may not find them
amusing or fun. That’s where you may want to consider drawing, even simple
sketches as you creatively tackle chore ideas and more.
Letting Children’s
Imagination Run Wild
Sometimes the notion of business and entrepreneurial lessons
can seem drab. That’s why it’s important to focus on sparking creativity. You
can easily do this by bringing down hard concepts to the level of a child. Let
them engage with some of the ideas, and write down simple things that they
would do. Sometimes a session of brainstorming is a matter of writing down as
many ideas as possible, in a short span of time. Once they are written, take a
step back and see what works, what doesn’t, and why some things are better than
others overall. Simply put, let a child’s imagination run wild.
Bring Them Into Your
Business
When in doubt, focus on allowing your child to see what your
brain storming sessions are like. Chances are you have a lot of elements
balanced out, and need help pushing them through. How do you do it? Explain the
bigger picture concepts that you deal with, and show children how they too can
pursue the same thing. The learning options within the notion of
entrepreneurship are endless. It’s just a matter of painting them in language
that children understand, and want to explore. With that, you can spark
creativity, and an industrious mind all the same.
I always did like the idea of paying them to do chores. When you tell them that this is how the real world works, you get paid when you work and not not by simply asking for money, it gets then into the habit of doing that and helps them acquire a work ethic.
ReplyDeleteUnlike adults who have faced a lot difficulties and have given up to reality, children are pure and they dare to imagine everything. It's important to teach them that they can achieve whatever they imagine if they believe so. Every successful entrepreneur is not afraid of failure and they succeeded only after countless attempts.
ReplyDeleteIt is a very a good idea to introduce the concept of brainstorming to children at their young age because they will grow up with a different and better money mentality than their parents most of the time. Letting their imagination run wild is a good way to also allow them to be creative in the process.
ReplyDeleteI've never thought about having a session like this with my child. I also never realized just how often I do actually make my own lists when working through an issue. It's a great idea to have children do this with drawings and colors because it is going to appeal more to their creative side and probably get things done easier. Thanks for the great tip!
ReplyDeleteIn addition to this great tip, I think we shouldn't expect something too perfect and praise them for their hard work. We can show them how to do things better afterwards, but giving appreciation also boosts their self-confidence to explore more ideas in the future.
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