Great Falls Tribune:
Candy Maxwell manufactures and markets Candy’s Colorland products from her Cascade home. The products are made of lightweight plastic, which can be colored on and then erased.
The products are manufactured using laser-cutters and silk-screen machines.
All of the playhouses are different, but they also can be hooked together.
“Kids can add on to it and […]

Times Argus:
Ashlyn Barcomb, wearing a jazzy black-and-white T-shirt with her blue jeans, carried a poster illustrated with her own cartoon drawings to the front of the guidance class this week. At the top of her poster was the legend, “What I Might Do.”
“I have three major ideas of what I want to do when I […]

The Maui News:
After leaving the construction business to become a stay-at-home mom - now, of four - Bonnie McCarthy found life could be hectic.
She didn’t need all-day care for her kids, but she did sometimes want brief relief.
“I would go to the grocery store with a list of necessities but with the kids being kids, […]

Springwise:
Tikatok is an online community any child can use to write and illustrate stories, share them with friends and family, and even print them out as real paperback and hardcover books. Children can create a book free-form, or they can use the site’s “StorySpark” templates to help them get started. Words and drawings are easily […]

BizzFlip Business Blog:
In a world where we’re all expected to be entrepreneurs and reinvent ourselves to stay competitive in the workplace, it’s never too soon to encourage kids to develop and follow through on their own ideas. Perhaps the example of a project initiated two summers ago by Amanda Wilcox, now 10, and facilitated by […]

Entrepreneur:
Business and personal coaches start by getting professional coach training, says Karen Kimsey-House, co-author of Co-Active Coaching.
Find International Coach Federation-accredited training programs at coachfederation.com. Determine your niche by examining your background, your strengths and the kinds of people you’re drawn to helping.
Use your network to find your first clients as well. Says Kimsey-House, ‘It’s […]

Denny Strecker’s Blog:
Summer time is one of the most wasted times of the year for children here in the United States. Parents allow their children to become slugs - sleeping all day, laying on the couch, watching TV or playing video games. This is not a good habit to allow children to learn. Today’s article […]

BizyMoms:
Fitness is one of the most important factors to live a healthy life. Because of this reason many parents tend to care about the fitness of their children from their young ages. This is the reason that has developed the conditions in the market for children’s fitness classes. Therefore this has given an opportunity for […]

Cool Business Ideas:
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cubes&Crayons offers flexible office space, community and child care for self-employed or freelance workers with young children between 3 months and 5 years old.
A variety of work spaces are available at the site, including conference rooms and overstuffed chairs, and extra services such as printing, faxing and filing space are […]

WSJ:
Adriana Serio is into celebrity fashion. She recently got a $28 pair of pink Mary Jane shoes by Robeez after the daughter of actress and former Miss USA Ali Landry was photographed wearing them.
Adriana can’t put her enthusiasm into words. She’s only nine months old. But her mother, Gina Serio, who bought the shoes, admits […]

Black Enterprise:
I am now divorced with 3 adolescent sons. I’ve worked hard and been fortunate to provide a good income running a business I started 20 years ago. As I look around at layoffs and disappearing jobs, and vanishing pensions and age discrimination issues, I worry about my sons’ future. I hope they will grow […]

Hamilton Advertiser news:
A 5-year-old boy has followed in the footsteps of his cartoon inventor heroes by patenting his idea for a new double-headed broom.
Wallace and Gromit fan Sam Houghton is believed to be the youngest person in the UK to register a patent, having had his lightbulb moment at the age of just 3.
He was […]

As a kid in the 1970’s I always dreamed of being the first woman movie director. Since that time, many other females have beat me to the Director’s chair. Not living in Hollywood put an enormous crimp in my desire to direct feature films.
But as technology matured, video camcorders became commonplace in the hands of […]

Canadian Entrepreneur:
Do kids make better entrepreneurs? Does ‘growing up’ kill the risk-taker inside of us?
These are some of the questions raised by a recent column by U.S. sales consultant Art Sobczak called, ‘We Should Be More Like Kids.’
He says most of us would be happier and achieve more if we acted more like kids every […]

AOL News:
Brazilian schools realized they can’t stop children from getting into promiscuous activities, so instead decided to help kids make smart decisions when it came down to their sexual activities.
‘The health and education ministries and the United Nations sponsored a nationwide contest for students to design the dispenser. 3 potential models were selected on Friday,’ […]

Unusual Business Ideas That Work:
Mail By Santa is not a unique business idea, but it just proves a point that you don’t have to be a genius to make money online.
Children look for reasons to believe. This is what makes these letters from Santa so magical. These letters remove any doubt if there really is […]

News-Democrat & Leader:
We prepare our children to enter the workforce, but are we preparing them to manage their finances?
Most parents want their children to grow up with a sound understanding of money, but many adults in the United States struggle financially. Often children enter the world as adults knowing little about money management or basic […]

International Herald Tribune:
The idea came to Tito Loizeau in a Buenos Aires shopping mall 3 years ago: Build a Barbie-themed store and little girls and their parents’ money will follow.
Loizeau’s marketing company had set up a small House of Barbie promotion for Mattel Inc. inside the mall. He was astounded by the reaction: Girls waited […]

PRWEB:
BalzacToys.com will offer hundreds of thousands of dollars in free toys on their website for Christmas.
‘As long as inventories last, we will be giving away free toys,’ says Mary Rodas, the former Teenage Toy Tycoon who gave away thousands of toys during the Gulf War when the Toys for Tots program was undermanned.
‘People need a […]

AOL News:
Jake Wulf wants to keep the lid on it. The 9-year-old boy flushed out a plan for a foot-activated toilet seat lifter that is called the “Privy Prop,” designed to lower and raise the toilet seat.
While her son, who is in the school’s Talented and Gifted program, manages assignments with ease, he has one […]