I heard a story this week that raised my blood pressure and left me fuming at another great injustice. Unfortunately there is very little I can do about it. Kicking the dog would not be PC (and after all, it’s not her fault); stamping my foot makes me feel like a child and waving my fist in the air while shouting at the universe… well, it didn’t do anything the last few times so that’s out too. So instead, I’m venting through my keyboard.
The story goes as follows. A friend of ours has an 8 year old daughter who attends a private school. This amazing little child has been running a mini-spa business in the after-care center. She offers the other children mini-facials, neck massages and nail treatments for which she charges R2 each. Now as I’m hearing this story I’m seriously chuffed. Firstly, if you read the biographies of some of the great businessmen(women) of our time, something they have in common is the fact that they were all running various small businesses at school, including paper routes, comic book sales, and tuck shops. Secondly, I have two daughters (one of whom is eight), and I have begun teaching them the basics of pocket money, business and earning some extra cash. In fact, I’ve been talking to them about starting a small business at school.
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