18/12/2025
Dear Parents, this message is for you!
Thank you for believing in your children! We believe that each child has a gift that can change the world in a profound way. We hope we can help your child continue to learn that they can do hard things, be accountable, and, most importantly, find their calling in life that will help them change the world.
✨Guidelines for Parents and Guardians✨
Parents of younger children may sit in their booth, but the children are to be responsible for the setup, sales and interacting with the customers. This event is designed to give children a taste of selling a product. Please let them have that experience.
⚠️Any parent seen selling to the customer or promoting the child’s product will result in disqualification from the competition.
🌱Guardians Five “Smooth Stones” – Principles to Keep in Mind:
🔵Wonder
There are so many opportunities. Allow your child the gift of wonder. Ask open-ended questions.
🔵 Industriousness
Allow your child the gift of seeing the fruit of hard work.
🔵 Responsibility
Treat your child as the sole owner. Let the child make the plans and the decisions as much aspossible.
🔵 Encouragement
Provide encouraging communication.
🔵 Enthusiasm
Provide passion for the Children’s Business Fair.
👀👉Five Warnings
✨Parents tend to make children’s events too stressful. What is needed from parents are clear boundaries and backstage organization. Then, let the children flourish. This is not about you, it is about the child.
✨Parents can make children’s events too complicated. This is not Shark Tank or a business plan competition. You do not need business plans with five-year projections.
✨Parents tend to get ahead of their children in passion. There is great value in your child not getting everything done in time. This will help them learn. Make sure they create a product or service they are excited about. Remember the parental adage that “there is blessing in a skinned knee.”
✨Parents tend to get ahead of children in competitiveness. Your role is not to be Elon Musk, a business school professor, or a venture capitalist.
✨Parents tend to rob children of the joy of hard work. Do not do the work for the children. If the product or service looks messy, that is ok; in fact, that is great!
✨Encourage your children to make a good product or service, but never take the role of a business board, manager or owner. Do not rob the work environment of joy by prodding or criticizing. You child is Chairman, CEO, and owner. Let your child be those things.
🙌Thank you again for being a part of this remarkable event!
Sincerely,
Kindraza- Toronto Children’s Business Fair Team