Course Benefits | Course FAQ | Buy Online Why is this course vital? What can we expect to gain from this course? Is this a parenting course? What is required of me? What is Ka-Ching! Business Parenting? Who developed the course? Who is Midge Hilton-Green? If the need is so great, why haven't the educational authorities tackled it? What are the key concepts of the course? Q: Why is this course vital? More and more school leavers - and university graduates - are struggling to find employment. The growth of small, home and family businesses is skyrocketing throughout the world, and individuals and families are finding it necessary to start their own businesses in order to make an acceptable living. Traditional education systems are attempting to prepare their pupils for this situation. Traditional education is failing to equip our children to deal with the realities of the world today. Q: What can we expect to gain from this course? Obtaining this course was your first step towards bringing up enterprising children through building their self-confidence and instilling a positive self-esteem. The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course will enable children to become competent speakers, effective thinkers and practical problem solvers, through interaction, communication and bonding within their families. Even more importantly, it will help you to equip them to meet the challenges and opportunities of our rapidly changing world. Q: Is this a parenting course? Partially, but it has a significant difference. Ka-Ching! believes that you, the parent, can add tremendous value to your child's education. We also believe that you should add this value and, particularly, that you should begin as early as possible. Q: What is required of me? We are going to show you how you can ensure that your child has a greater chance of success in the 21st century - and we're going to prove to you that just 10 minutes per week is all the time you need to devote to achieving this. Q: What is Ka-Ching! Business Parenting? The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course is a structured yet flexible course that is designed to assist parents in ensuring their children's future success and happiness. It focuses on two main areas: Providing children with the necessary knowledge, skills and characteristics to achieve this. Producing a bond of love, respect and understanding between parents and children through positive interaction. The course is essentially a clear and practical step-by-step guide, which involves you with your child, in a very positive way - as a partner! Children yearn to be treated with respect and to be looked up to, rather than looked down on. The basis of The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course lies in a wide variety of practical business projects, which parents and children take on together. Many of the projects are suitable for six year olds - in fact, our experience has shown that children derive the maximum benefit from this dynamic course if they begin with it between the ages of 6 and 14 - and parents don't need to have any knowledge of business! The major benefits of the course are: Introducing your children to entrepreneurship and the nature of business at a young age and in a simple and enjoyable manner. Providing your children with financial awareness and showing you how to teach them financial management and wealth creation - skills that, contrary to past opinions, need to be nurtured at a young age to be most effective. Identifying the specific qualities that employers seek in their employees. This knowledge will help you to emphasize, teach and develop these characteristics. Developing the critically important 'Success Skills' that children - and adults - can use at any stage to enhance learning processes and making them even more likely to succeed - at school and afterwards. Producing a long-term bonding of the family unit through communication and interaction between parents and children as they work together on business projects. Q: Who developed the course? The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course is the brainchild of Greg Bunyard. Greg studied for his BCom at Rhodes University, where he majored in Business Administration and Industrial Psychology and thereafter obtained an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School in Scotland. He has worked in Johannesburg and London and in the USA. Greg has travelled the world and is very much an entrepreneur himself - currently consulting in the investment and service sectors, as well as developing the The Ka-Ching Business Parenting Course. Greg has researched and developed his ideas through books, websites and financial awareness programs and the relevant resources are detailed in this course. He is particularly grateful for the invaluable advice provided by Midge Hilton-Green, presently headmaster of Bishops Preparatory School in Cape Town, South Africa. Q: Who is Midge Hilton-Green? Midge was probably the first person to introduce entrepreneurship and financial awareness programs into a formal school curriculum in 1988, while he was Headmaster of Kingswood Junior School in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is an acknowledged international expert in this area and has received extensive newspaper coverage, appeared on television, interviewed on radio and quoted in a number of books and magazines. He has assisted many schools with their own programs; is a founder member of the 'Entrepreneurship Education Initiative' and was presented with a plaque at the 19th Annual Entrepreneurship Education conference in Salt Lake City in 2001, to acknowledge his contribution in this pioneering field. Q: If the need is so great, why haven't the educational authorities tackled it? In recent years, many departments of education across the world have attempted to introduce business-orientated components into their syllabi with varying success. The South African Education Department's new Outcomes Based Curriculum has introduced two new "learning areas" directly related to skills needed in the world of work- namely "Economic and Management Science" and "Life Orientation". While this is admirable, the benefit of these programs depends a great deal on the interpretation and knowledge of the facilitator concerned. Greg, together with others working in this field, believes that the role of the parent is very underrated and underutilized and could benefit such a course enormously. The value in this situation is the small family group and the closeness of the relationships involved-something difficult to replicate in the normal classroom. The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course will help you supplement your child's school in ensuring that he or she gets the benefit of a quality education, while providing the simple stepping-stones to a loving and caring family relationship. Q: What are the key concepts of the course? The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course emphasizes that: Families can add to the value of their children's education. You should start at an early age. You can use part or all of what we suggest. The parent does make the difference. the course shows you how to go about it. Certain "success" skills can make a difference Communication starts at home. 10 minutes per week is all you need. You don't need any previous experience or training With this course, you and your children become partners - life-long partners - not just playmates! KA-CHING! believes that its course will provide your child with a better chance, in life after school, of: Employment Advancement Satisfaction Success The Ka-Ching! Business Parenting Course ensures that your child will reap these future rewards through Your interaction Your communication Your education Your involvement Parental involvement is the key! Ka-Ching! Business Parenting stresses that parental involvement is essential at this stage - to maintain momentum and enthusiasm and to provide children with the motivation needed for achievement in these early years. The essential parental involvement and continued interest need not, however, be very time consuming. Parents should always look for the positives, for the good points, for the little successes without dwelling too much on the failures. Children need to learn that making mistakes is a natural and important part of life and that mistakes can take one back in a better direction to achieve greater success. The golden rules When your children come to you with a problem - ask for their opinion, ask how they feel about the problem, ask what they think should be done - before advising them. Teach them to consider other points of view. Teach them that 'different' is not necessarily inferior. Talk about 'being proactive' as well as the importance of learning to be a good listener. © Copyright 2008 by Ka-Ching LLC All rights reserved Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Hosted by Hetzner