My girls are budding entrepreneurs. Since she was three years old, Briana has been telling me that she is going to open a boutique and be a designer, and she named her store Boutique Girls. She is now 7, but has not forgotten this dream. We’ve been through at least 5 logo changes, from all of the letters in balloons to the current logo below. And now Abigail wants in on the fun. She wants to be a confectioner. Briana and I regularly have little debates about aspects of her store: Girls clothes only or boys too? Accessories? Online sales or not? Color of décor? Location (she says Paris or New York, I say close to home J )? We even spent a whole night talking about the kind of lighting she wanted once. But lately her favorite thing to talk about is pricing. She is learning about coins and value at school and has come to realize that pricing and making actual money is a part of being a designer. This has led to some awesome conversations and a lot more awareness when...
I am teaching my kids everything from math to reading to manners, and blogging about our weekly thinking cap adventures.