WE TEACH ALL THE TIME

We teach our kids a lot of things, what defines good manners, what foods to eat, what is good and what is bad, but have you been teaching your kids all the lesson's you've learnt from your entrepreneurial journey?

I don't have kids myself, but I grew up with very academically minded parents (both talented scientists) which valued hard work and lots and lots of studying. I'm very grateful for them teaching me their work ethic, and wished that at times I was taught more about being a business person then an academic earlier on in life, as opposed to later.

SOFT SKILLS ARE SO IMPORTANT

There were a lot of "soft skills" such as communication, leadership qualities that I was not taught growing up, however I'm glad I've had a chance to really grow on this area later on in life, and because it was something I was never taught, I was much more thirsty for then knowledge then I would have if I had heard it all my life.

TEACHING THE KIDS

The question I want to present to you is, do you pass on your business lessons to your kids? If you don't have kids yet and are planning to, will you?

Then comes the other question of how do you do this in a way that makes it interesting for them? 

I personally feel that there are a lot of interesting ways to teach kids about business, that might not involve you actually talking about business. There are lots of great apps that are based on finding resources and using it to build things, like Farmville, subconsciously teaches kids how to create and maintain a farm. Perhaps you can create opportunities for them to solve problems with things around the house and train them to be solution orientated as opposed to just dwelling on problems. You can start to teach them that failing is not the end of the world and it's possible to pick yourself back up again - this might even need to come from an example, showing your kids your failures and successes transparently so they don't always feel like they have to be achieving things to be valued, it's the journey that counts.

I even recently introduced my brother to a website called codeschool which teaches kids how to learn to code through levels and games. They collect badges and level up as they learn more. It looks so fun even I'm tempted to give it a shot.

We are now blessed with so many tools that can help our younger ones develop so quickly, what methods do you recommend to teach kids about the business world?