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SmartKids and SmartWatches: How Future-Minded Kids Designed Eco-Friendly and Health Conscious Smartwatches

With an abundance of creativity and visions of a limitless future, children often come up with inventions that have the potential to change the world! We’ve been fortunate to spotlight many of these young kidpreneurs on our website. Our book “Kidpreneurs: Young Entrepreneurs with Big Ideas” guides children through important principles of entrepreneurship, as well

Kidpreneurs April 25, 2019

A Guide to 50 Creative Business Ideas for Kids

A Guide to 50 Creative Business Ideas for Kids Encouraging kids to pursue their business ideas and solutions has benefits far beyond just financial. Critical life skills – including those that impact the emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing of children – are gained when kids are well-supported in starting their own business and in seeing

Kidpreneurs April 22, 2019

Interview with Parker Krex, Creator of Brick Loot

“I encourage kids to never give up. If you like your idea, someone else in the world likes it, too!” – Parker Krex Our latest featured Kidpreneurs is Parker Krex. At age nine, after years of reviewing Lego sets on YouTube, Parker came up with the idea for a monthly LEGO subscription box. And Brick

Adam Toren April 1, 2019

Interview with Jayce McGuirk, Creator of Random Hats of Kindness

“The earlier you can start learning about business, the better. ” – Jayce McGuirk Our latest featured Kidpreneurs is Jayce McGuirk, a 13 year old kid with a penchant for spreading kindness. Along with his brother and step dad, Jayce designs and sells super cool hats with a purpose. Each comes with a “leave-behind” tag

Adam Toren March 25, 2019

Kidpreneur, Kenan Pala, creator of Kids4 Community

Interview with Kenan Pala, Creator of Kids4Community

“Staying determined while working helps you focused through the promised challenging times that come with running an organization or business. ” – Kenan Pala Our latest featured Kidpreneurs is Kenan Pala, a kid with a big heart for people in need. With the help of friends and family, Kenan helped to organize programs to fund

Adam Toren March 19, 2019

How Kids with Big Hearts Created Big Ideas

Do you remember coming up with (what seemed like) amazing ideas for inventions when you were a kid? Perhaps they seemed impossible to others. But to you, in your state of wonder and limitless possibility, the ideas felt completely achievable. Maybe you figured out the secret to creating a Limitless Wish Granting Machine, drew

Adam Toren March 1, 2019

How Role-Modeling Helps Kidpreneurs Excel

Raise your hand if you ever heard your parents say this oldie but goody: “Do as I say, not as I do.” While this phrase may often be said in jest, plenty of kids can tell stories of how their parent’s words and actions didn’t always seem to align. And how confusing that was to

Adam Toren October 23, 2018

Stop Micromanaging Kids, Start Empowering Them

The remarkable benefits of play, trial and error, and risk taking in raising confident kids. The helicopter parent. The hoverer. The overparenter. While social media has painted a not-so-pretty picture of overprotective parents, the reality is we have all been there at some point. You know you’ve been a helicopter parent if any of this

Adam Toren October 16, 2018

8 Things Kids Can Teach You About Business

Richard Branson. Elon Musk. Grandpa Joe. It’s not hard for me to rattle off the names of successful people who have inspired me along my journey of entrepreneurship. From their stories and legacies, I have learned enduring tenets of what it takes to own and grow a business (or two). But rewind a handful of

Adam Toren October 9, 2018

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