Celebrating Parents
August 28th, 2009 by Alex_GoldupAt Make Your Mark Towers, we like to think of ourselves as collection of youthful, sprightly folk. Accordingly - consistent with a tradition that has been passed down from one generation of young people to another – we can occasionally be heard grumbling about the parents. Personality defects? We blame the parents; sloppy habits? We blame the parents.
Enough.
Our ongoing Parents campaign should put to rest such ungrateful, ill-founded grumbles.
The feedback we have recieved from entrepreneurs who have engaged with the campaign – on Twitter, on the forum, and on this very blog – has highlighted just how big a source of support parents have been for those taking their first, tentative, entrepreneurial steps.
“Without my parents, my business wouldn’t have been where it is today [...]. They’re there for me when I need them, when I have a bad day, just with a reassuring word. They’re free too!”
- “Moo”, 21 year-old entrepreneur
“My parents have helped in both the usual parent ways (cups of tea when I’ve had my head buried in the website all day), to ways which require more creativity [...]. My family have given me invaluable support all the way through”
- Lauren_O
“It is clear that parents have a significant role to play; in developing their children into well rounded individuals as well as supporting them as they start businesses – financially, creatively or just by making cups of tea!”
- Lucbenyon
So, young ‘uns – less grumbling and more recognition of the great support that parents provide.
If you are a parent – thanks for putting up with our chronic discontent – and want to know more about how you can support you child’s enterprising ambitions, take a look at our parents campaign.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:28 am
As a parent with young teenagers and an Entrepreneur, in other words ’successful’and not so suvccessful business owner I can sy that I have and will encourage the passion and self beleif required in my kids to become an independant business owner – IF thats the route/path they want to take. My parents were always pillars of support, enthusiasm, encoragement and belief, tinged with pride and mt father was a ‘corporate animal’ himself, but appreciated the drive and energy required to make something happen, create it yourself. Parents that I know of friends like me have all been positive and I put that down to a shift in culture from staid and secure(1950’s-70’s), to ‘go for it’(1980’s to now, the internet era!) which is similar to the ‘live today and make the most of life’ philosophy that Australians generally live by. I hope that I support my kids as much as my parents did, correction – I will! One other thing. Be happy!