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How Parental Controls Shape the Minor Chores Experience
Minor Chores puts parents in the driver’s seat. With built-in settings like customer approval, blurred profiles, and chore radius limits, kids stay safe while gaining real-world experience. This post breaks down how our family-first tools empower kids to grow—while parents stay confidently in the loop.
Why Teaching Kids to “Earn” Beats Giving an Allowance
Most kids know how to spend money. Fewer know how to earn it. And when cash comes too easily, through weekly allowances with no strings attached, it can short-circuit the lessons that matter most. At Minor Chores, we believe real financial literacy starts with effort, ownership, and the satisfaction of doing the work.
The Soft Skills Kids Need—And Why Chores Are the Perfect Teacher
You can’t teach accountability with a worksheet.
You can’t coach resilience from a textbook.
But hand a child a rake, a schedule, and a customer, and you’ve just created one of the most powerful classrooms in the world: real life.
Minor Chores: The First True Entrepreneurial App in the Gig Economy
The gig economy was supposed to set people free. But with fees as high as 60% on every job, most gig workers don’t own their income—the platforms do. Minor Chores is flipping the model. And in doing so, we’ve built the first true entrepreneurial app in the gig economy.
The Tools We Give Kids Today Determine the Businesses They Build Tomorrow 🚀
What if starting your first business was as easy as downloading an app?
That’s the idea behind Entrepreneurship-as-a-Service (EaaS)—the framework Minor Chores uses to equip kids with the tools, confidence, and structure to become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
From Chores to CEOs: The Future of Youth Entrepreneurship Starts at Home
Entrepreneurship isn’t just for adults—it starts at the kitchen table, with a rake in hand or a job to do. Minor Chores helps kids build businesses from simple tasks, teaching ownership, money management, and confidence along the way.
How We’re Building ‘Entrepreneurship-as-a-Service’ for the Next Generation
What if starting your first business was as easy as downloading an app?
That’s the idea behind Entrepreneurship-as-a-Service (EaaS)—the framework Minor Chores uses to equip kids with the tools, confidence, and structure to become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
What If Entrepreneurship Was a Core School Subject?
As schools debate how to prepare kids for a world shaped by AI, one idea stands out: what if entrepreneurship was taught as seriously as math or science?
Here’s how Minor Chores is helping homeschool families and after-school programs make that future a reality—today.
Why We're Focusing on Young Entrepreneurs (and Their Parents)
When we launched the first version of Minor Chores, we did what many early-stage startups do: we built, we shipped, and we learned.
But what we’ve learned isn’t just about feature requests or bug reports—it’s about kids, parents, and psychology.
The Rise of Micro-Entrepreneurs: Why Kids Are the Next Startup Generation
Gen Z has already shown the world that youth entrepreneurship is a force to be reckoned with. Now Gen Alpha is taking it even further—starting microbusinesses before they hit high school. Here’s how digital tools and platforms like Minor Chores are powering this generational shift.
💰 Raising Future Millionaires: The 7 Income Streams by Age 17 Challenge
At Minor Chores, we believe that financial literacy isn’t just something kids should learn in school — it’s a skillset they should live. Our “7 Income Streams by Age 17” challenge (or 7x17 Blueprint) is designed to help families raise confident, capable, and financially independent children — one chore and investment at a time.
Future-Proof Kids: Why Entrepreneurial Life Skills Are the Best Job Security in the Age of AI
As artificial intelligence continues to transform the workforce, one thing is clear: the jobs we’ve traditionally educated our kids to pursue are rapidly vanishing. In their place? A new demand for uniquely human skills—creativity, resilience, emotional intelligence, and most importantly, entrepreneurial thinking.
Why Entrepreneurship-as-a-Service Is the Future of the Gig Economy for Kids (and eventually adults)!
Minor Chores is leading the EaaS revolution—teaching kids real-life business skills with no service fees. The gig economy just got family-friendly.
How Neighborhood Businesses Are Teaching Kids the Skills AI Can’t Replace
Minor Chores is a neighborhood hustle—modernized and massively scalable.
Why Learning by Doing Is the Missing Link in Teaching Kids About Money, Responsibility, and Entrepreneurship
Minor Chores turns your home and neighborhood into a living classroom—one where kids can practice responsibility, see the outcome of their efforts, and develop the traits schools can’t teach.
Supercharge Your Child’s Business with Broadcast Messaging in Minor Chores
Parents guiding and supporting their kids as they launch neighborhood businesses with confidence on the Minor Chores app!
🌱 Raising Resilient Kids: How Early Entrepreneurship Builds Confident, Capable Young Adults
Raising Resilient Kids with an entrepreneurial mindset!
💡 Why We Built Minor Chores: Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Equip kids with the tools, confidence, and values to launch real-world businesses—while deepening family connections in the process.
Not Another Subscription?! Why This One Actually Pays Parents Back
One subscription closer to your kid moving out (financially secure)
🚀 Why We Pivoted Minor Chores from a Marketplace to a CRM Platform
Discover how Minor Chores empowers parents and kids to build local businesses together—no app required for customers, no fees, just real entrepreneurial tools.