If your child has a big personality or a talent like singing dancing whatever then there are businesses

that get attention that are very available.

In today's environment and they are kind of like YouTube instant ground social media businesses.

They are fun for your child.

They are actually boring behind the scenes.

It's very nerdy behind the scenes because there's a lot of promotion even in videos there's like editing

and there's different equipment then that's the kind of stuff that the creative people hate to deal

with.

And it's going to be your job to support your child and maybe help them understand the microphones the

filming the cameras if it's video or if it's just photos all the little things like that make some of

some kids figure this stuff out on their iPhone.

For many people it's a challenge.

And same issue with the marketing.

I mean if it's something on youtube you're doing I mean you're going to have to promote it and post

it on forums and somehow get the initial views for it or somehow put some money into running ads just

to get that little bit of initial exposure.

So it's not fun for you with his business.

But it's interesting for your child and it lets them explore their creative side to the fullest.

Now about that in your safe home environment they're going to be OK as soon as they are out and putting

things on YouTube or Instagram.

There is a lot of really weird people out there especially people who are judgmental of other people

who are creative.

The more your child is creative the more they're going to have weirdo and mean critics who are maybe

other 10 year olds.

But online you have no idea.

OK.

So does this business have a negative part of it which is it can be.

Once you put something out there as a creative person you get negative feedback.

It can be very hurtful and it's important to shield your child from that you know.

And it's not something that you can stop.

You can't control the Internet but you can talk to them about it and make sure that they are psychologically

and emotionally prepared and ready and see you know explore this slowly so that they don't get a bunch

of weirdos or even worse like a lot of peers who are mean to them.

And this is of course a case by case basis.

I don't know what your child will do I don't know if they're going to sing or they're going to dance

or they're going to tell me you know bad jokes.

Who knows.

But it's really important that you are kind of there and overseeing it and just getting them ready.

There's a lot you know in creative things there's a lot of rejection.

There's a lot of negative things that come to it.

Alongside the quote unquote thaim and the other problem with it is that your child other than exploring

their creative side that there is not a lot of skills that you learn but there's a lot of kind of like

this self-focus which is something that the current society perpetuates in young people so you want

to also be careful that your child doesn't get carried away like this whole Me Me Me I'm the star.

So you're going to have to find a way to mitigate that again because I don't know what it is that your

child will do it's really hard for me to sit here and suggest a particular technique for how to mitigate

it but it's really important for you to be very mindful of it.

And for you it's one thing to do to help your child along is try to think through some of the business

planning of this for example what will be the format.

Will it be weekly.

Will it be video will it be audio.

Will it be pictures.

How often and should there be like co-star's or are they the only star.

And you know how to make it better.

So whenever you're creating anything we're all essentially amateurs when we're creating things at home

for the Internet.

And there's levels of being amateur and we're never quite professional because professional level of

creation like you see on TV or music videos like you know back in the day there were MTV I mean there

are like professional teams of people working on them.

So not just one person.

So a home based business will never be perfect and it's your job to kindly find flaws in the production

and work with your child on it to improve it so it may be that if there is singing maybe the instruments

needs to be instrumental pardon's be better.

Maybe the microphones need to be better.

Maybe the song itself has to be a little bit tightened up in what your job is to get them the right

kind of cochain the right kind of training if you can help them along with advice.

That's also great but your job is essentially to see where the weak points are and help them find the

way to improve it so they can become more and more a high quality content producer online which will

really help them further explore their potential exposure in whatever their creative side is.