CHILDREN AS YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

APRIL R. ESQUIVEL

In these days of soaring prices of commodities, it is only practical to be in enterprising to make both ends meet. Being young is the best time to start enterprising. Children can learn about the rudiments of business in their young age. They can start selling ice candies, flowers, trinkets, etc. From there, they can graduate to become small time businessmen. Chinkee Tan, the financial guru and motivational speaker, started selling his ware when he was a boy in his short pants in elementary. He sold almost everything he persevered though there were many frustrations. By the time he was a teener, he was already a millionaire. If Chinkee was able to do it, why can’t our children? Just the right motivation will enable them to do so.

Not only they be enterprising, but they can innovate too. In the article, “The Famous Americans You Didn’t Know”, published in the Reader’s Digest, one child in the 19th century wrapped his carbon pencil with cedar. It was high success, and they both became rich in a very short time. We only need a situation where children’s creative genius will be tapped. As they say, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”, if the parents have the good fortune to won a business, teach the children the ropes and trades of business. Make them start at their young age and they are on their way to success.

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II at Sindalan Elementary School

The author is Teacher