Scores of young girls in 10 different cities across the nation took the first step towards tackling their financial futures under the direction of millionaire women CEOs and entrepreneurs. The second annual “On the Way to Pay Day” event hosted by Sam’s Club and sponsored by the Women Presidents’ Organization and YOUTHpreneur, brought Girl Scout [...]
Read more...The YOUTHpreneur team joined up with the Boys & Girls Club once again to teach teens how to be financially prepared for the future in an event the first weekend of October. The annual Boys & Girls Club Keystone Conference brought scores of local high schoolers together in a series of three workshops to learn [...]
Read more...On Tuesday, July 15, the dozen children of the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix enrolled in the first YOUTHpreneur class went out to check up on the status of their gumball machines. Each of the machines at the four Fry’s store locations had varying amounts of gumballs missing. Depending on the store traffic [...]
Read more...PHOENIX (July 2, 2008) – On Tuesday, a dozen kids of the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix took the first steps to becoming entrepreneurs when they placed their very own gumball machine at four local Fry’s Stores.
The kids, enrolled in the YOUTHpreneur program will monitor their machines over several weeks and see how [...]
On Tuesday, June 24, 10 children from the Phoenix Metropolitan Boys & Girls club began the journey to becoming entrepreneurs. YOUTHpreneur classes began for the kids and will continue for another five weeks. Eventually, 90 other kids will be phased in to the program over the course of the next month.
The 100 children chosen for [...]
Your home-based business is the perfect platform for educating your children about business and financial independence.
As a business owner you have taken control of your own life and destiny. You are ahead of the curve – but are your children? Many parents expect their children to learn what they need to succeed in [...]
PHOENIX (April 21, 2008) – Gumball machines, middle school students and founders of multi-million dollar corporations aren’t often associated with each other in the minds of most people. However, a new financial education company plans to make Arizonans think just that.
Just speak with twelve-year-old Anthem resident Sidney Johnson and the connection becomes obvious. Johnson began [...]
Many parents ask me (in private), “How can I teach my children about money when my own finances are so messed up? I don’t want me kids to know how much financial trouble I am in.”
As parents we all want to be perfect in the eyes of our children. But I am here to tell [...]
Most of my articles are specifically about teaching our children about money, but this article is about the broader subject of “parenting” in general. Are you a helping parent, or an enabling parent?
Just last year I threw away a colonial building project that my son, Phillip had made for a social studies class project in [...]
Your children are quick studies when it comes to spending money. They see you spending money all the time just in the course of daily living. They spend time with their friends at the mall and learn what the latest trends are and want to appear “cool” to their friends. (I know the word “cool” [...]
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