Confidence is a gift
Our popular culture can be crushing to girls’ confidence. But learning entrepreneurial skills builds girls’ confidence. That’s a gift that will help them become more successful in life no matter what career path they ultimately pursue. Children learn that a different set of rules apply to...
Start Them Young
In these recent posts in which I've offered tips on raising entrepreneurial girls, I've suggested ways to foster their curiosity, encourage girls to remain idealistic (and to use that idealism to push themselves creatively), and to embrace and learn from failure. Here I look at an...
Get Dad Involved
In my last few blog posts, I've been presenting a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. These tips include helping girls embrace and learn from failure, encouraging their sense of creativity and allowing them the freedom to explore ideas from different angles. Here we...
Help Them “Scamper” To Creativity
In these last few posts, I've been providing a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. So far, these have included letting them embrace failure, helping them unleash their creativity, harvesting their idealism and letting them get messy as they get creative and discover what...
Channel Their Idealism
I've been outlining tips for raising entrepreneurial girls, talking about letting them unleash their curiosity, not minding getting dirty, and embracing and learning from failure. We need, too, to let them live in idealism—the kind that propels them to continue to want to change, to...