Inspiring families to raise entrepreneurial kids
Enterprise for Kids is a family journey of raising entrepreneurial kids to think creatively, take initiative, build confidence, and explore enterprise in the real world. Through real stories, practical ideas, and lessons learned over many years, we share what helped our children grow into capable, enterprising young adults.
Discover family enterprise stories, practical ways to build entrepreneurial thinking at home and in the classroom, and where those early childhood ventures have led today.
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Welcome to Enterprise for Kids
Enterprise for Kids began while we were raising our seven young children and asking bigger questions about education, money, mindset, freedom, and the future. As school teachers, we could see that the school system did not do enough to help young people understand money, business, investing, or entrepreneurial thinking. We wanted something more for our children — and for ourselves.
So we began our journey: learning, growing, questioning the system, and building new beliefs as a family, all with the goal of raising entrepreneurial kids who could think differently about money, opportunity, and their future. Along the way, we encouraged our children to create, sell, invest, lead, dream big, think differently, and step outside their comfort zones. This site is a record of that journey, the lessons we learned, and the paths our children are now taking as adults.
Why Raising Entrepreneurial Kids Matters
Our journey began with a growing realisation: children are shaped early by the beliefs, systems, and examples around them. Cathy and I were on our own personal development journey, learning about money, business, and investing — and about our own limiting beliefs, value systems, and what makes us light up.
We began to see how much of traditional education prepares children to be workers rather than thinkers, creators, leaders, or entrepreneurs. We did not want our children to inherit the same limiting beliefs that had held us back. We wanted them to know that there were other ways to live, create value, earn income, build assets, and pursue freedom. Enterprise for Kids became a place to capture that journey and to share what we were learning with other families and educators looking for a different path to raising entrepreneurial kids.
Start with a Real Family Story
The heart of this site is not theory alone. It is the real things our kids tried, created, sold, learned, and experienced. From Flynn’s honey venture to Amber’s market stall, Jai’s app ideas, lessons from investing in silver coins, and family enterprise challenges such as our curb painting business, these stories show what entrepreneurial learning looks like in real life.
Featured story: Honey Pot of Gold
A story about one of our family’s early ventures and the lessons it taught about initiative, money, creativity, and enterprise.
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What We Learned Along the Way
Over the years, our family explored personal growth programs, money education, investment strategies, leadership training, and hands-on enterprise experiences. We played financial board games, set goals, created vision boards, built real kids’ businesses, attended workshops and seminars, hired mentors, invested in silver and crypto, studied the subconscious mind, and learned how belief shapes behaviour.
We also brought these ideas into everyday family life — through wild dinner table conversations, market days selling our wares, practical money systems, and enterprise projects. As school-teachers, we also brought these ideas into the classroom by creating a classroom economy that helped children experience business, investing, taxes, wages, loans, and opportunity in a real and memorable way.
Over time, these experiences became part of how we approached raising entrepreneurial kids with confidence, initiative, creativity, and real-world understanding.
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From Childhood Ventures to Today
Enterprise for Kids began more than 16 years ago. Today, our children are no longer little. Some are building significant businesses, while others are writing, travelling, creating, marketing, investing, teaching, or forging their own entrepreneurial paths in different ways.
This next chapter matters deeply to us, because it shows that the seeds planted in childhood can shape confidence, creativity, initiative, and direction long into adult life. This part of the site follows where those early lessons led, what our children are building today, and how Cathy and I continue to reflect on our own personal journeys and the lessons we have learned along the way.
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For Families Raising Entrepreneurial Kids
This website is for parents who are raising entrepreneurial kids with confidence, creativity, initiative, leadership, entrepreneurial thinking, and a healthy money mindset. It is for children looking for ideas and inspiration to start a kid business of their own. It is for teachers who know the current system does not fully prepare young people for a fast-changing world. It is for our own children and their families, as a diary of entrepreneurial memories and lessons they can revisit with the next generation. And it is for anyone who wants to help children build the mindset, skills, and vision to create meaningful lives with greater freedom and possibility.
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Whether you are looking for inspiration, practical ideas to try with your own children, or a deeper understanding of the mindset behind entrepreneurial living, we hope this site gives you both encouragement and direction.
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