Our Journey Raising Entrepreneurial Kids

Enterprise for Kids is the story of our family’s journey raising entrepreneurial kids through teaching, adventure, enterprise, mindset, and real-world experiences.

What began as a personal search for something more has grown into a place where we share our lessons, family stories, and the ideas that helped shape our children into creative, enterprising young adults.

For nearly 30 years, Cathy and I have explored education, money, mindset, leadership, business, investing, and family life with one big question in mind: how can we help our children grow up with more freedom, possibility, confidence, and vision than we ourselves were taught to expect?

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Where It All Began

Our story began in the remote far north of Western Australia, in the tiny town of Kalumburu, where we were both teaching. From there, our family journey took us to farm life in Burekup, to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, across the United States in a motorhome with seven children, and eventually to Augusta, where we live today.

Along the way, our family grew, life stayed full, and adventure became part of who we were. Looking back now, we can see that those early chapters shaped not only our family life, but also how we approached raising entrepreneurial kids and helping them see freedom, creativity, and possibility.

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Why We Started Enterprise for Kids

As school teachers, we began asking bigger questions about education, money, freedom, and the beliefs children absorb from the world around them. We could see that while the school system serves some important purposes, it often does not do enough to help young people understand money, business, investing, leadership, or entrepreneurial thinking.

That realisation changed the way we approached raising entrepreneurial kids within our own family.

We began learning all we could about personal growth, money, investing, leadership, and entrepreneurship. We did not want our children to inherit the same limiting beliefs that had held us back. We wanted them to know there were other ways to live, create value, earn income, build assets, and pursue freedom.

“We didn’t want our children to inherit the same limiting beliefs we had absorbed. We wanted them to know there were other ways to live, earn, create, and build freedom.”

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Learning by Doing

Enterprise for Kids became one of our first blogs and a place to capture what we were learning as a family.

These ideas were not just things we talked about. We brought them into everyday life through dinner table conversations, vision boards, small businesses, market stalls, investing simulations, and real-world enterprise experiences. Our children were encouraged to create, sell, invest, lead, dream big, and step outside their comfort zones — all part of raising entrepreneurial kids in a real and practical way.

As teachers, we also brought many of these ideas into the classroom, creating hands-on ways for students to experience money, wages, taxes, loans, business, investing, and opportunity in practical and memorable ways.

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Where Life Has Led Today

Today, our children are no longer little. Some are building businesses, some are writing, travelling, creating, investing, teaching, or forging their own unique paths. Each has carried something forward from those early years — confidence, initiative, creativity, independence, and the courage to think differently.

We now live in Augusta in Western Australia, with our youngest still at high school. Our other children are living in various places, building lives and ventures of their own, and our family story is continuing to unfold into a new season.

Enterprise for Kids matters to us now more than ever because it is both a record of our family’s journey, both THEN and NOW. It is also a place to share ideas, encouragement, and inspiration with others who are raising entrepreneurial kids and want their children to think outside the box and see the many possible paths in life.

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What We Believe

We believe children are shaped early by the beliefs, examples, and environment that surrounds them.

We believe entrepreneurial thinking is about far more than business. It is about creativity, initiative, resilience, leadership, confidence, courage, and learning how to create value in the world.

We believe children benefit from healthy, practical money conversations.

We believe families and educators can play a powerful role in raising entrepreneurial kids who think differently about their future.

And we believe that when children are given belief, encouragement, experience, and opportunity, amazing things can grow.

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Thank You for Being Here

Whether you are a parent, educator, grandparent, student, or simply someone who believes children deserve a broader vision for their future, we are glad you are here.

We hope our story gives you ideas, encouragement, and a sense of possibility for the young people in your own life.

 

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