Maybe it is just because I’m supposed to be limiting my caffeine intake, but I’m craving a good cup of coffee right now. Still, I may have found myself a good person to make my future purchases from eighteen months or so from now when I’m back in the market for highly caffeinated beverages like coffee: Fatbrain Coffee.
A group of Polk County kids took a simple idea, used a basic marketing strategy, picked a favorite commodity and is turning profit. The home-based business called FatBrain Coffee is teaching kids ages 8 to 15 the value of a dollar. tampabays 10
Homeschooled kids. With a curriculum designed by a homeschooling mother who found it so successful she has applied some of those lessons to herself and is selling the curriculum from her website.
Just one more thing I like about homeschooling: the ability to do things truly meaningful and productive with a child’s education.
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Yea! A new baby to spoil!
Okay, now I can finish reading your post!
Extremely cool! Yes, I think teachers often struggle with making their educational content “authentic” and “relevant.” Homeschoolers solve the problem from the other end, constantly looking for “educational” possibilities in real life as they themselves live it.
I think it is a problem that needs to be solved from both ends, with specialists reaching out from their disciplines and real-life learners reaching in.
We will definitely check out the curriculum! I’ve been roasting my own green cofee beans from Burman Coffee Traders (using a hot-air popper from a resale shop), and it has been a wonderful thing for me as a dad to share with the kids. We make coffee together in the morning (they haven’t become addicted, yet), and I use the roasting process to show them what “chaff” means in Psalm 1, etc. The business curriculum is just one possibility for learning–there is so much rich content to engage with in the history, biology, and business of coffee. (One home-roasting supply company calls itself a “virtual coffee university.”)
And congrats on the new little one!
I love it! My wife and I have several ideas for some home school curriculum. This is inspiring. Thanks!
Congratulations!
Oh wow, that looks like a great idea. Thanks for the link to it!
That’s so cool. Yeah, I was all bummed out this year that we didn’t get enough of my “plans” done. Then I realized ever so slowly with my square peg public school brain that taking a cross country field trip to Michigan to compete in a Robotics tournament and planting and raising vegetables in a garden outside is actually learning life-skills. Wow. It was like an epiphany. I CAN live outside the box.
So I guess my year hasn’t been so bad after all - even for all its distractions.
I thought I heard somthing like “another one on the way” on your Home School Talk show! Woo-hoo, congrats to you & your family!!
Cool home biz - I love entrepreneurs. And I love coffee. Perfect combination.