Books for 8 year old

[Tarcizio Goncalves]

Hi everyone my daughter just turned 8 years old and I wanted to start to introduce her to business books and wanted to know what options of books you all implemented with your kids that worked. I am not looking for a book with just text in it because that will not interest her. Any fun books out there that can teach young kids the concept of business ownership, real estate investing, and entrepreneurship? Is 8 years old too young to start going down this path? Thank you everyone 

[Oskar Czeladko]

Good afternoon,

I would say that age does not really matter in terms of if a child will be able to understand the message. As I have seen 8 year olds that are not able to read and those that can read at a middle school level through a tutoring side business I had in college. It really depends on if they can firstly understand words and thereafter if they can understand the message.

An experiment you can do is the Marshmallow Experiment. In which you offer a single marshmallow or two marshmallows in 5 minutes. In doing so you can grasp a child's maturity in for strategic thinking, thus understanding if they are ready for a business lessons.

Oddly enough I first started understanding business through Roblox tycoons games and monopoly. The premise of them allows one to see how a business expands and the competitors alongside them. Through several playthroughs of monopoly one can show differing strategies and the realities of losses. 

Overall, nowadays with the iPad generation of children it seems that books may not be stimulating enough. Therefore, one might need to use more engaging tools and afterwords delve into books. Even adults nowadays seldom can stay focused during reading, therefore it may be difficult to capture a child's attention and focus with mature books.