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Ok, I read about Jeanne's daughter and her 100 penny business, LOL, and I had to share.

I guess it was last week when Cate (almost 8) realized she was the only one in the house with a working radio. She decided to charge people 30 cents to listen to one song. After a while she made a membership program, for $1.00 you got an ID card (which we spent all morning making) and you got 10 songs - which was a savings of $2 (I made her do the math, heee!) She made signs with open and close times. Then she decided to make it MLM and take on partners as long as they gave her 10 cents for every 30 cents they make, ha!!

Then Emily (5) decided she needed money to listen to songs, so she started a business drawing for 50 cents. She said she would draw anything you wanted, as long as she knew how to draw it (which pretty much means it had to be a flower, person or Spongebob)

I think this shows one of the greatest advantages of homeschooling - allowing the kid time to play and have fun and think about real things, and watch their ideas blossom and come to life.

Meg

Hi Meg,

It is fun to read about how kids learn through their creative games. When my 5 were little they very much liked dress-ups and plays with dance and song and making tickets, also, to give out to family 'guests' and charging pennies for admission.

Even when I was a child I enjoyed such fun productions. With me these shows with dancing and singing actually led to my future career in the performing arts and then teaching. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Susan

My oldest daughter ran a very successful babysitting business. She had an advantage over other sitters, because she was available during school hours. I allowed that as long as she finished all her assigned work every week.

hehehe - Yeah, my 4 3/4 old decided that she HAD to sell her pictures for 100 pennies each so she could buy a pony toy she wants. [imageBellaOnline ALERT: Raw URLs are not allowed in these forums for security reasons. Please use UBB code. If you don't know how to do UBB code just post here for help - we will help out!