We haven't done anything creating guides. It's not a bad idea. Hard to monetize though, but I suppose we could look at something like Gumroad.

And to make matters worse, Telegram sends a notification to all your mobile contacts that you've joined Telegram, as if to say:

HEY, come check it out, this boy joined Telegram...!!!

They are young enough that the only way this works is probably if it's something they enjoy doing. So we are focused on that. But a little part of me is hopeful that they'll catch an entrepreneurial bug from all this.

I don't care about it at all because I don't have to. We here still use earthen pots for many things like storing water, milk, curd, Yogurt, for cooking, and a special one "kullad Tea".

Drinking water

We almost everywhere have a market for earthen pots

These are some great ideas! We are native English speakers, but working on our Spanish. So my sons have had to make a bunch of flash cards for themselves. Great idea to make them for other people. And the idea of child artwork being on them does stand out (so much of what you find now is AI, and frankly it all looks too polished).

Great👌 thanks for sharing.

We've paid older kids to do the 'mother's helper' thing when ours were smaller. It is a great first job!

My kids don't do much screen time. We don't own a tv. They don't have phones. The computers they have access to are in communal spaces and they aren't allowed to use them just whenever they feel like it.

I'm really curious how effective a kid can be given new tools like LLMs. It's easier than ever to spin up a website and payment rails. At the same time, products are cheaper than they've ever been, too. My daughter was talking about printing ballet-themed stickers and selling them to her fellow dance students. I think that could be a great start.

I want to start them thinking now: What problem can I solve for people that they will pay for? and I'm hoping that it gets us seeing the world as an opportunity-rich field. Also I want to get them used to the idea that spending money is necessary to make money.

just realizing everything we predicting on SNL in the first 100 episodes is coming true this year! 🤯

10k/m seems too low. Maybe start with 25k/m

I do wish there was a better way to just see stuff from territories i've "subscribed" to...

It's not for everyone. We have a pretty good community of other homeschoolers around us, which helps a lot with socialization and confidence. Also, it helps that I grew up that way. My primary interest in homeschooling is that I feel that traditional schooling wastes kids' time.

Not something I care about, beyond the kinds of precautions you mentioned.

My understanding is that the reason microplastics are everywhere is because they’re so inert. If they were dangerously reactive, they would have reacted with stuff before getting into our food and water.

The lemonade stand path is fun, and we've done a few things in real life like that, but there is this dynamic where kids may be more capable of useful work in the digital space than they are in the physical space. I really do want their end product to be more than a gimmick or toy (sure, adults buy lemonade from lemonade stands because they want something nice to drink -- but mostly it's just to be nice to kids). I want them to see if they can make something that other people are willing to pay for without knowing they are kids trying to make a buck.

Here at home, we're working on this educational project. I mentioned this a while back. We're studying, and we have a big challenge ahead of us, which is language (we speak Spanish and live in Brazil).

For first words and things like that, in literacy classes, they always talk about, for example, creating postcards with all kinds of animals, objects, etc., and you teach them the sounds of those images.

The idea of ​​letters also comes up: uppercase, lowercase, cursive, etc.

It's crazy to find those kinds of images, so I've even thought about making a compilation of those kinds of images, printing them, laminating them, and selling them online for that kind of audience.

With children in mind, you could do two things:

And of course, in addition to all of that, the idea of ​​the website with online payments, etc.

What do they like doing?

More and more, I think people should start there and see if there’s a path to making a living off of it.

Its also a honeypot for Intel agencies. Better use matrix.

I often get myself real bed linens if I'm somewhere for a longer time instead of the microfiber crap, and I try to not drink from plastic bottles, meaning I have an excuse to prefer good wine over soda.

Let's go!

It's so satisfying to see Fiction Month's success. Congratulations to everyone involved.

And to the readers, consider checking out my story "2223", the link is up there on the list.

The approach is not yet final, but writing tools are probably going to be split in two parts.

The 1st is what you’re describing (I’m also imagining it being floaty), the 2nd part will be an attempt to introduce a non-overwhelming fully fledged editor

fiat food was a good trip down the rabbit hole in that regard

for anyone who grew up in the uk, this is just glorious to see 😅

it's an english tea thing, i do have loose tea and green tea, but nothing hits the spot like a plastic teabag and milk.