Sowing seeds of success
If you say, “Let’s not bother anymore with sandwiches — let’s put pasta in your lunch box”, you miss a vital opportunity to encourage entrepreneurial thinking in your child, says author, business woman and mum-of-one Lorraine Allman.
If you have a conversation with your child, asking they why they think the sandwiches went soggy and what could be done to keep them crisper, if you encourage them to think about solutions, inviting him to google ‘How to stop sandwiches going soggy’, you’re fostering the kind of flexible mindset that’s the bedrock of an entrepreneurial attitude, says Allman.
