her Shark Tank debut, first consider whether your parenting techniques are equipping your children with the skills to steer their own ship. Entrepreneurship is set of skills and behaviors that you can instill in your child with a little perseverance. However, one of the biggest mistakes, is forcing a career direction or interest on your child, experts say. Instead of drilling a specific idea into a child’s mind, parents wishing to cultivate an entrepreneurial child should first observe and listen in to what the child is excited and passionate about. “Parents’ well-intentioned efforts to help their kids prepare for organized careers often boomerang, because when parents ignore their children’s skills and true passions, they limit their kids’ options and create a dangerous environment of pressure and anxiety, where their kids are less likely to succeed,” author and the mother of two successful entrepreneurs Margo Machol Bisnow says. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship has identified eight core traits they say are critical to becoming entrepreneurial. These include:
- Opportunity recognition
- Comfort with risk
- Creativity and innovation
- Future orientation
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Initiative and self-reliance
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Communication and collaboration
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