After raising two entrepreneurs of her own, parenting expert Margot Bisnow interviewed 70 parents of highly successful adults. Here’s what she learned about how to raise brave, confident and entrepreneurial kids.
A salesclerk saw and snatched something out of her hand. For a minute, Tania thought she was in trouble. But her dad stepped in and said, “She’s just curious. If she breaks anything, I’ll pay for it!”
“At that moment, I knew my parents would always trust me," Tania told me."They never had any reason to discourage anything I was curious about. I never felt I would suffer consequences for being curious.”The parents I interviewed all agreed: The sooner kids are given big responsibilities, the more confident and independent they'll become., a company that creates corporate campaigns.
His parents worked full-time and couldn’t drive him from their home in Westchester county to NYC every day; but they had friends with an empty apartment in the city, so they let him live there by himself that summer. “I don’t know if that much freedom and independence at such a young age would work for everyone, but it did for me," Michael said."Their trust in me let me mature a lot earlier than my peers."It’s not always easy to trust in outcomes we can’t yet see. But these parents all trusted their kids to make choices about how they spent their time.
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