I love hearing from my daughter--even though she has a netbook, iphone, email, and facebook---she doesn't check it as often as I would like---wouldn't you think she would call several times a day?? Or at least email several times a day??? She says she is busy. DUH!! Too busy for her mom?
Well for the last three days, my friends and I have been working on her business plan. She wants to open a retail clothing shop for 16-34 year olds where they can buy or rent clothes. The younger generation--a different outfit for everyday of the year. Well business plans are very time consuming. I looked up the basics and began typing. Then I sent her a homework list. She said I sent too many emails. So, I sent another one with a numbered list---and probably 20 more with lists I had left off the original list. (She thinks I overwhelm her with emails.)
I am thinking that once she saw how much work was involved--red tape for SBA and grants--she decided to change her direction---save a few hundred bucks and start small with something simple. And all the work I have done creating this beautiful plan---out the window.
I told her dad that as a parent, we want our daughter to fail and succeed and to be independent. However, it doesn't hurt to add a pillow so the fall will not hurt as much. We are not going to give here the money--as if we could---and I probably would if I had it---but we are going to give her our moral support and time. Even if she never starts this business or any other business---I think she is learning a lot. Taking the classroom learning to real life. For this, it was worth my time to work on a beautiful business plan that will probably never be used. And she now knows about demographics, cost analysis, market share, owner's equity, etc.
I would say it has been a good week.
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