[egregiouscoder]

I am 21 right now and am an entrepreneur. I am in a start up which started about a year ago. One thing I can tell you from my perspective is that my parents never encouraged me to be an entrepreneur. I think subconsciously the school teaches you if you want to be an entrepreneur or not. I learned that I would be a great entrepreneur from all the group projects I was leading ever since I was young. All the other kids would want to make me the "leader" and that encouraged me to take action. Also from my peers in college, they told me the dreadful stories of working in a big company. Many universities have entrepreneurship classes (believe it or not).

You should be happy whatever your child wants to do with his/her life. Whether it be an entrepreneur or flipping burgers in the streets. I think as a parent, it's your job to open doors for the child. Show them there is more than working for a big company, expose them to different roads. Then LET them choose what they want to be.

It's cool that you want to set aside Sunday's afternoon to "build stuff", but I would say also take them for "sports club", "art school", "music school". Don't limit them to what you want to be, open doors for them.