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More and more kids and parents are asking how kids can make money. With the economy in trouble many parents are cutting back on the money they spend on extras for their kids. For the ambitious and determined child, there are ways they can work for what they want. As a child, under 16 years old, I babysat and gave piano lessons to pay for makeup, books, jewelry and other things I wanted. My younger brother had a paper route and mowed lawns to earn the money for a new bike.

Today there are many different ways to make money for the child who is willing to work. Besides the obvious babysitting, paper route and lawn mowing, there are a lot of ways a determined kid can make money. Any child with ambition, honesty, dependability and the ability to see a job through to the end will soon find himself or herself in demand.

With a little thought and knowledge of your neighborhood you can come up with some of your own ideas for how kids can make money. Here are just a few suggestions for jobs for kids:

1. Parents’ Helper – Too young to really babysit? How about approaching a busy mother with several young children about keeping the children entertained while she’s busy doing other things?
2. House cleaning – Many people are just too busy to keep their house as clean as they would like, but cannot really afford a professional housekeeping service. A child who can vacuum, dust, and mop a floor and clean the toilets could earn some very good money.
3. Lemonade Stand – Selling lemonade, cold sodas in the summer and hot cocoa and cider in the winter can be one way to make money. However, be aware that some cities have regulations about such enterprises; check first.
4. Car Washing – Kids ask your parents to teach you how to wash a car, then go around your neighborhood and offer to wash your busy neighbors’ vehicles. This is something that a couple of children can do together as a way to earn money.
5. Dog Walking – If you live in an apartment building and have neighbors who own dogs, offer to walk their dogs for a fee. For many people this will be a real blessing that they will happily pay for. Don’t forget to take “poo bags” and clean up after the dog.
6. Poo Patrol – If you live in a neighborhood where people have fenced yards where their dogs are allowed to roam and do their business, offer to clean up the “poo”. Take a bucket, lined with a bag and a garden trowel. Walk the yard thoroughly, picking up every bit of poo.
7. Vacation Helper – Make up a flyer listing all the different types of services you could provide as a “vacation helper”. Then pass this flyer out to your neighbors so that when they go away they know who to call to water their garden, walk the dog, bring in the mail, and just otherwise take care of their house.
8. Snow Shoveling – Either with a shovel or a snow blower a kid who lives in snow-prone areas can make some good money clearing driveways and sidewalks.
9. Garden Helper – In the spring, offer to help your neighbors who plant gardens by raking, working the soil, planting, pulling weeds, mulching, watering etc.
10. Yard Sale – Go through your things and decide if you have stuff that you no longer use or want that could be sold.
11. Yard Sale Helper – Offer to help arrange, set up and monitor your neighbor’s yard and garage sales.
12. Garage Organizer – Offer to help clean up and arrange garages. Not only will your neighbors be thrilled with their neat garages, but you’ll earn a bit of money. Additionally, there are almost always things that get thrown away that you might be able to take home and sell in your own garage sale.

Parents make sure that your kids follow a few simple safety guidelines:

1. Always let you know where they are
2. Never go door to door alone (you must be willing to go with them if there’s not a sibling or friend to go with them)
3. Provide a card with your name and phone number for them to hand out to prospective clients.
4. Make sure they understand about reliability and responsibility and are committed to finishing the work they agree to do. Also advise them about displaying a good attitude. Remind them that their clients are doing them a favor by hiring them, thus they should have an attitude that says “I’m happy to be here, doing this work”.
5. Make sure they understand that these jobs can only be done after their schoolwork and chores are done.
6. Advise them to keep the prices affordable.
7. Make sure they know they can ask you for advice anytime.

These are just a few suggestions for how kids can make money. Look over your neighborhood. Think about the types of things that people have to do just to maintain their house that take up time and could easily be done by someone else. Those are the types of things that many people will gladly pay your child to do.

There is a Portuguese riddle that asks you to guess which being grows rapidly during its youth, takes 18 years to reach adulthood, usually lives to celebrate its 70th birthday, is able to survive adverse conditions, and produces sufficient wealth to feed a family.

In Portugal, a school kid who already knows the answer will smile at you and point his finger at a poster of an oak tree on the wall of his classroom. On the other hand, if you ask the same question during an evening course at a business school in Lisbon, students are likely to give you a different response. “What you mean is an entrepreneur,” they will tell you.

Inherited behaviour models are crumbling in our midst. Old morality is taking the blame for current problems, although often through spurious argumentation. Never mind. Ethical decay has reached such an extent that many parents have given up all attempts to provide moral guidelines to their offspring.

Where are we headed? Should we just continue to chant the old incantations of our culture even after it has become clear that the melody is broken? I don’t think so. I submit that an ethical model for the 21st century is brewing in old pots and casseroles: the sovereign entrepreneur.

Like the oak tree in the Portuguese riddle, the new species will reproduce and spread worldwide. It will survive a thousand years and open the door to a new era of tolerance and prosperity. What are the characteristics of this ethical standard?

1.- TALENT AND SKILLS TO WITHSTAND ADVERSE WEATHER. Through the ages, oak trees have taken root in most areas of the world, from California to Italy, from Argentina to South Africa. Even in unfavourable environments, these plants have grown stronger with each generation.

2.- QUICK LEARNING AND RAPID IMPLEMENTATION. The internet is compressing more and more the time needed to acquire professional or business training. Forget about dragging along six-years at an expensive University. Instead, turn on your mp3 player and listen to lectures in your field of interest. How long will it take for sovereign entrepreneurs to learn their trade? Possibly, less than two years, which, by the way, is the average lifespan of oak tree leaves.

3.- LOYALTY TO UNIVERSAL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES. Virtues such as flexibility, openness, tolerance, and honesty will render entrepreneurs sovereign of their fate and unconstrained in their business approach. In many cases, adherence to universal values will be preferred to identification with a specific country or culture. Oak trees have spread around the world on the basis of the essential characteristics of their species, irrespective of local accidents and fashions.

Despite massive efforts to foretell the future, nobody can predict accurately what is to come during the next years. Will we witness currencies collapse? Will major shifts in world economic flows take place? No matter how difficult the situation becomes, sovereign entrepreneurs constitute the species best fit to survive. When everything is said and done, wherever you live, you will always need to call up an expert to fix your toilet when it breaks down. That expert, you see, that’s the person you want to be.

JOHN VESPASIAN writes about rational living and is the author of the books “When everything fails, try this” and “Rationality is the way to happiness.” He has resided in New York, Madrid, Paris and Munich. His stories reflect the values of entrepreneurship, tolerance and self-reliance. See http://johnvespasian.blogspot.com a blog about rational living.

I know this article sounds too good to be true, and if your like me you have read a lot of crap over the years promising a pie in the sky dream.

Well, after a year and a half of failing miserably in my Pre-Paid Legal business (network marketing) and losing over $10,000 dollars I developed an attraction marketing and Internet marketing mindset. I then spent hundreds of dollars on Google adwords (Yes, I lost money there as well), E-bay marketing, Traffic exchanges, and Craigslist. I also spent loads of time writing articles, posting to forums, creating videos, networking with people on Myspace, facebook, squidoo, blogs, etc.

As a result of my marketing I earned more money in my first 6 months online than I could ever produce offline. (Yes, I finally made a profit – Yipee!!) The major problem for me in offline marketing was that my prospecting was very “untargeted” and I was seen as a common solicitor and not a professional.

I learned that I could harness the power of technology and create a brand. For me that brand being Carl Coffin, Inc. Did you know that companies pay millions for their brand name? Branding myself was the best thing I could have ever done to attract loads of prospects to me on autopilot.

One day, during one of my momentary lapses of focus I was browsing youtube “killing time” when I stumbled across a video by Jonathan Budd. I said to myself, who the heck is Jonathan Budd? I thought his videos were a little funny and intriuging. Jonathan Budd is an expert Internet marketer who is making multiple six figures online in various network marketing businesses. He’s a coach and trainer and is responsible for creating the Online Mastermind System.

After watching a few of his videos his message started resonating with me and I was slowly but surely becoming attracted to him. (NO, NO, NO Ladies and Gentleman, that last sentence didn’t sound right, I assure you I ‘am married and 110% heterosexual) I was attracted to his “mindset” and his “marketing philosophy.” Jonathan’s marketing message worked on me… he branded himself in my eyes as a leader and an expert, I then wanted to learn more from him. I wanted him to empower me with his knowledge of Internet marketing. I pulled out my credit card and purchased his Mastering Myspace course, then his Online Mastermind course, and finally his Online Mastermind System. The information I learned from him was invaluable but that’s how it is in life… We have to pick our mentors and learn as much as we can and then try to implement the knowledge in the real world. We test, test, and test some more until we succeed.

It’s because of Jonathan’s value and the respect that I have for his coaching that I decided to recommend his affiliate program to my prospects. His affiliate program (in my opinion) is the best program for online marketers out there in cyberspace. His program has everything you want. Every prospect that goes to your affiliate landing page and opt’s in for more information about Jonathan Budd is trapped and attached to you until the end of time. (Having a prospect opt in at one of Jonathan’s landing pages is really a no brainer because of how powerful he brands himself.) The front end of the marketing funnel offers a low priced product that pay’s a seven dollar commission up front. Residual income is now created because the prospect is entered in a 14 day trial of his Mastermind system. After 14 days the prospect is billed the monthly fee and a $17.00 commission is automatically generated.

This has been extremely lucrative to me because the low priced product converts very high followed up with monthly memberships that are automatic. The prospect now turned customer is also placed in Jonathan Budd’s list that consistently emails’ valuable content and training. Every sale that is made from now until the end of time is attached to you and will pay you time and time again.

Well there you have it my friends, my online marketing income stream that is responsible for paying my bills. The best part is his program is free to use and has been a valuable asset in the current recession – or should I say depression.

http://www.MLMOnlineProfits.com – The Mastermind circle that is responsible for me yelling back at my ‘Debt Collectors’ – Get The “_____” Out Of My Life.

http://www.youtube.com/powerprospector – The PowerProspector’s Channel

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