Many schools and educational organizations pitch that they have programs to bring your child greater success than their peers. The article below offers a different twist. It makes suggestions to enable your child to be another Mark Zuckerberg!
Want to
Raise a Tech Entrepreneur? Give Your Child These Chores.
hese simple household tasks will help
develop the skills they need
By ALEXANDRA SAMUEL
Wall Street Journal May 1, 2016
10:16 p.m. ET
Many families introduce their children to the world of
work before they bring up the idea of entrepreneurship. But you don’t
need to limit your children’s earning potential to baby sitting, dog walking or
lawn mowing.
By offering your children some ways to earn pocket money
through tech chores, you introduce them to life as a tech worker. If your
children are old enough to tackle slightly more challenging tasks, they can
even learn valuable tech skills while they’re helping out.
Starting small
Put little children to work with the kind of routine,
time-consuming tasks that are tempting to avoid. They may not acquire a lot of
tech skills in the process, but they’ll get more comfortable using devices and
get used to the idea that it takes some work to keep everything running
smoothly. To that end, you might put your elementary schooler in charge of:
Scanning business cards.When
you come back from a conference, hand your child your phone, along with the
collection of business cards you’ve accumulated. Ask your child to scan all the
cards into your phone using an app like Evernote Scannable, CamScanner or
Scanbot. Pay your child a nickel, dime or quarter per card.
Want to raise the creator of the next Facebook or Apple?
Author Alexandra Samuel joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and explains how
parents can nurture the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.
Ripping CDs. In
a world of Spotify and iTunes, it can be hard to justify that shelf full of
CDs—but just as hard to throw them all out. Get your children to rip your
collection and add them to your digital music library. Yes, you could achieve
the same result by sending your collection to a ripping service, but they’ll
charge 70 cents to $1 a disc—so if you can get Junior to do the same job for 25
cents a disc, you’re way ahead!
Managing cables. Look
into the average home-media center, and you’ll see a cable snarl to rival Medusa.
Hand your child a Sharpie and a roll of masking tape, ask him to label each
cable at both ends and then unplug the whole setup: that will allow him to keep
track of which cord goes with which device. Then you can have him unplug
everything, de-snarl the mess and inspect it for any cables that weren’t
actually plugged into anything. The job of putting it all back together is a
great chance to strengthen spatial and logical thinking by finding the most
sensible route for all the different cords.
Charging devices. With
all the gadgets we carry around, it can be hard to keep every computer, mobile
device and backup battery fully charged. Make it your child’s job to ensure
that everything is plugged in and charging each night. As a bonus, this will
ensure that everybody has to put away their phones and laptops at a specific
time.
Getting advanced
Older children may have the tech know-how to undertake a
range of tech chores—and if they don’t have it, then tech chores are a great
way to acquire some new knowledge and skills. Consider asking a teen to take on
a role like:
Tech support. This
is a role that many families naturally delegate to their teen children, but
even if you’re tech-savvy yourself, consider asking your child to help you
solve technical problems like a crashing iPhone or a printer you can’t reliably
access on Wi-Fi. Once your child gets the hang of how to Google for
troubleshooting tips and follow instructions, she’ll be able to solve her own
tech problems as well as yours.
System administrator. Once
your child is old enough to trust with the password for your router and home
computer (and isn’t going to abuse that trust by gaming 70 hours a week) you
can turn her into your system administrator. Pay her to keep your operating
system and apps up-to-date and your network running. If your child has some
financial smarts, you can also assign her the job of regularly surveying
competing telco providers to see if you can get a better deal on your home
Internet, phone or TV service.
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