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Smart Kids
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Smart Kids
This is how my professional bio reads: Jennifer Bouani is a speaker, author, entrepreneur and one of the foremost experts in teaching kids
business concepts and entrepreneurship. Bouani comes from a family of entrepreneurs. She started
working in her dad's business at the young age of 12 years old. In 1995, she graduated Summa Cum
Laude from Auburn University with a degree in Computer Engineering. She has been a project
manager, business analyst, a business communications professional, a consultant, and a professional
speaker. Jennifer has expertise in multiple industries: retail, insurance, automotive, telecommunications,
consulting, publishing among others..
Bouani is the author of the Award Winning Book Tyler and His Solve-a-matic Machine and Chairman
and CEO of Bouje Publishing, one of the fastest growing independent publishing houses in North
America. She mentors parents, educators, community leaders.... on how to empower and prepare kids
for tomorrow's world by teaching them how to think creatively by turning what they love to do into
business ideas, explore products and services around them, set realistic goals, overcome obstacles
and realize their dreams. Her presentations are an extraordinary blend of content rich
using breakthrough techniques and high-octane real life experiences and high involvement so that
participants learn faster, remember more, and achieve maximum results.
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 04:52
Now that we have entered an unprecedented global market where India and China are surpassing America in producing engineers and graduates with essential management skills, we find that America, still leaning on a traditional public education curriculum, born of an industrial age and designed to teach kids to be lifetime employees, falls behind.
Do you think American public education should be enhanced to include business and entrepreneur lessons at a younger age? If not, how do you think we should raise our children to compete in tomorrow's marketplace?
Jennifer
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mamajama
Posts: 651
mamajama
I'm a new Mom trying to juggle working at home and having a young baby. In the past year and a half I have gotten married, graduated college, and had a baby. I am trying to build up a business as a spanish/english translator. My husband is a teacher...so we get by, but we could always use more money. I also want to continue to keep my skills sharp, because I know I'm not going to want to stay home forever. I'm interested in making friends and networking with other inspired mamas!
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 12:12
I have pretty radical ideas about education. I think that kids should be allowed to explore their environment and find what sparks them. Parents and teachers should be responsible for creating lessons out of life. My sister and I were homeschooled during my middle school years. During that time my sister wanted to make some money. My Dad ended up helping her come up with a business plan which she executed. The skills that she learned along the way were invaluable. So yes, I think that we need to have business and entrepreneurial skills integrated into our schools, but I'm not sure if lessons is the way to do that.
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Pammy
Posts: 65
Pammy
I work full time with my husband in our overhead door business. We have 1 child, a cat at work and dog at home. Very active in our community, and love cool cars, boating, travel and cocktails with friends - which never happens enough.
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 21:23
mamajama I guess I am right outside the box WITH you! The thing that makes me NUTS with our educational system is the need to book teach everything - what happened to creativity and passion? WHY can;t you build a model airplane to teach reading comprehension, physics, gemonetry, history . . . .
The best teacher I had was actually a lousy teacher (and drunken womanizer-I digress), but I took a year of history with him that year we learned about the political system - it was incredible becuase HE had been inthe political arena and his passion for it was contagious to his students as he taught, as we had moc elections, etc. I hated history of any kind - except THAT year. It was his spark that ignited all of us.
Teachers need to ignite a spark, create a passion - and I know that is not necessarily easy as the same spark doesn't ignite everyone but I see too much by the book curriculum and not enough real world practical lie education.
This is why I love the Odyessy of the Mind program - our school has just started it again 2 years ago - thanks to a new superintendent and great teacher.
Educationally the USA is way behind.
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KathyHowe
Posts: 160
KathyHowe
I am ridiculously proud of the fact that I get to raise two really amazing kids. I am single by design and wouldn't have it any other way. Professionally I have accomplished a lot both in the corporate world and running my own business. I know what it is like to be unemployed and under-employed. Personally, I am a diehard optimist, terminally perky and a hardcore believer in personal accountability.
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 21:34
I think teaching our kids additional languages (Spanish, German, Chinese, etc) will give them an edge in the global marketplace. I also completely agree with Pammy and mamajama. Book driven lessons and long lectures are not engaging our children to actually THINK! or DO! We cannot afford to lose their attention in the classroom and our educational system needs to figure out how to step-up and engage our kids.
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NatyBubblezx
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NatyBubblezx
This member has no personal statement yet!
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 21:35
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Genesis
Posts: 135
Genesis
I am a Canadian expat living in Guatemala. I am a work at home mom with two kids under two and a freelance writer.
It is not easy, but my husband was recently able to quit his teaching job to stay home and watch the boys while I work and focus on his night career as a musician, his true calling! I call that success. :D
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2008 22:47
I was homeschooled, my entire life, and I intend to do the same with my boys. The school system really isn´t made to take advantage of a child´s natural interest in learning. Lessons are important to a certain extent, but for my kids, I plan to teach them via experiments and real life experience as much as through books. Those of you with older kids might be interested in http://retireat21.com. Fascinating website with interviews with kids who are already making money with their own business . . . I plan to use it to inspire my boys in a few years!
They have a head start on the language thing, since I´m Canadian and their dad is Guatemalan. We live in Guatemala, but my boys speak English and Spanish. 
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