Young Entrepreneurs

My next door neighbor is a homeschooling family with 6 children. Grace, the third one down, is a little entrepreneur. She started by making peanut butter cookies and selling them in our complex - with me being her biggest customer. Her next endeavor was to offer to take my trash cans out to the curb and bring them in every week for 50 cents a week. I told her I would hire her, but for $5 a month - she took the job. At Christmas time, she came to sell me some loaves of pumpkin bread, saying I could use them as gifts or eat them myself. For Valentine's Day, she brought over some homemade Valentine Cards to sell to me. She had different varieties and had the prices marked on a post-it note on the back of each one.

She does a wonderful job, she's polite and she's very brave. Every month, she politely comes to collect the $5 for her trash service. So what drives this child? Why her out of all her brothers and sisters?

Do you have a child like Grace? Tell your story and give other homeschool students ideas for starting up their own little businesses. Eventually, we'll have a nice little library of ideas for kids to choose from.

• Homemade Cookies
• Trash Service
• Pumpkin bread
• Homemade Valentines
• Horseshues.com - "Good luck never looked so good"
• Finger Knit Scarves
• Lemonade Stand and Fire-Starter Buckets - Started at the age of 3. (Lemonade Stand Printables