Our Box of Good News
This last News Years our family started a new tradition. It was something you may have seen on Pintrest or other idea boards. It’s the Jar of Good News!
For those of you unfamiliar, this is a jar where you place your happy moments and accomplishments that you experience throughout your year and then on New Years Eve, you go through them one by one to reflect & relive those moments all over again. Neat right?
Here’s the thing. Last year we
Coming to a City Near You!
Build a Biz Kids is Growing!
That’s right! We are expanding from 3 cities to 10 this fall! If you live anywhere in the lower mainland from Maple Ridge to West Vancouver, we will have a venue convenient for you and your KidPreneur this fall, 2019!
Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing each cities dates & venues and opening up registration.
Stay Tuned and get ready! Your KidPreneur is going to amaze you with what they are capable of this Fall!
Meet Violet, One of Our Boldest Students Yet!
Have you seen Violet’s business? If you have been anywhere within a few feet of it, I bet you have. How do I know? Because Violet is incredible at speaking to Every New Potential Customer who walks by her table and won’t let you walk away until you hear about her budding business! While all […]
A Letter To Our Students & Kids Everywhere For 2019
A letter to Children in communities everywhere. Congratulations to our students and children everywhere for everything you have learned and experienced in 2018! Just think of where you started last year and all that you have learned. Maybe you were introduced to multiplication and division last year. Maybe you got to jump off the diving […]
16 KidPreneurs Launch Their Businesses!
It was an exciting day at Henderson Place Mall on November 24th! 16 Build a Biz Kids, bright eyed and primed with nine weeks of business launch preparation stormed the mall to set up shop. Armed with their handmade signage, display decor and for some, copious amounts of product; the kids each built their own […]
Trial & Error
Have we forgotten how to let kids fail? I always want to teach my son how to do everything in the most efficient way. I struggle to stop myself from correcting him before he begins. There is a quote from the developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld “Never do for a child what a child believes they […]
“So What??”
Our KidPreneurs have had an exciting couple of weeks exploring business ideas by looking at how businesses are started. They have experience taking their passions & interests or solving a day to day problem and turning them into a business. So What? Our KidPreneurs have built their confidence by discovering their innate ability to be […]
OH! What If …..???
“Oh! What if….?” The most amazing part about working with kids is that they have yet to learn what the box is and are not limited to what ideas are “in the box” or “out of the box” thinking. Only two weeks into our after-school program launch and I’ve found a new favorite phrase. “Oh! […]
No Tech Zone After School Programs – Why We Do It
Too much screen time is often a common complaint among parents concerning their children. Oddly, however, some parents wonder how we can run a program on Entrepreneurship and teach them how to start their own business without the use of tech in this modern age. I wanted to give a short and sweet reason for […]
4 Successful Summer Camps, Over $1000 Raised for Charities
What a Summer!!??!! A HUGE thank you to all of our parents, students & community who supported our KidPreneur Summer Camps! And of course, a Gigantic thank you to Vancity for the support and use of their facilities and our friends at each of the local grocers we were able to set up shop with! We couldn’t […]