Preparing Your Kid To Be A Future Entrepreneur In South Africa
The greatest investment to make at this present age is the investment of knowledge into the upcoming generation. Although kids might just take up some part of the world’s current population, they are still 100% of its future. One great way to harness their potential in the future is to educate them now on the importance of entrepreneurship. The educational system is crafted in a way that kids are put through a series of tests to qualify them to make ends meet from helping other people achieve their own visions. The easiest way to be a world changer tomorrow is to start taking the right steps today. Here in South Africa, we see that there is a fast growth in infrastructural development and this can be attributed to the niche ideas that were birthed years back by young aspiring entrepreneurs. Your kid can also join the ranks of great entrepreneurs in this nation with the likes of Richard Maponya, Pam Golding, Anton Rupet and Harry Oppenheimer to mention a few. Parents, Your Role in Ensuring Your Kids Become One of the Greatest Although your kids would end up getting the fame and glory, parents still have a pivotal role in ensuring that this happens. 1. A Change in Your Personal Life Let us first establish the fact that kids are faster visual learners, so they tend to unconsciously take after whatever they see people that they look up to keep doing. With this, you can culture some of your kid’s characters even without talking to them which would eventually help them in the fast moving pace of this nation. Things You Can Teach Them from Your Personal Life a) Time Management Kids are very observant and always have the tendency to believe that they are licensed to do whatever it is that their parents are doing. If you keep coming home late and while away time on a couch with the remote on your hand, be rest assured that you are culturing your kid’s future to that same fate. b) Reading Habits Majority of your free time should be filled with you doing something productive. Take up a book and read or even something as minor as reading a newspaper can condition your kid to have that same interest. c) Accountability Keep records of important things in your life, make it a priority to see to it that everything that needs to be done is done well and on time. As a parent, there are certain things that need to be put in place in the family and in the home, once all these are taken care of and your kid continually sees theses, he/she is compelled to grow up with that same standard of living applied in all areas of their lives. 2. Support Their Littlest Efforts What might seem little today as efforts from your kids can turn out to be a global world changer tomorrow. There is always usually something productive your child loves indulging in, they [...]