Raise a child who builds a business — not one who waits to be hired.
Based on a true story
The Childpreneur is the workbook we wish existed when our first grader walked up and said, "Dad, I want to make money." 9 lessons. Real story. Real numbers. Real first sale.
"Most children grow up learning how to be good employees. We wanted our daughter to learn the other half — how to spot a problem, build something that solves it, and own the result."
— Corbin, dad of Callyn (age 6), founder of American Coffee
School teaches your child to wait for instructions.
Show up on time. Follow the rubric. Raise your hand. It's fine — but it's half the picture. The other half — spotting a need, building the thing, owning the outcome — never gets taught. So we wrote it down.
9 lessons. One real business.
Every lesson pairs a moment from Callyn's actual cold brew company with one business word — in plain language a 5-to-10-year-old can hold onto.
Finding your customer
"I want to make money." First real question: who actually needs something from you?
Building your product
The product isn't 'coffee.' It's cold brew, in a bottle, with your name on it.
Cost of goods sold
The $13 batch of beans. Real numbers teach faster than hypothetical ones.
Your first sale — Income
$8 from Grandma. $10 from the swim teachers. Both count. One means more.
Keep, save, or spend?
Cash flow explained with three cups: Business, Save, Spend.
What you own — Assets
The maker, the bottles, the logo. Which one, if it vanished, kills the business?
What you owe — Liabilities
Dad bought the next round of beans. When does that stop being a favor?
The part that's yours — Equity
Assets minus what you owe equals what's actually yours.
Leverage
Uncle Jeff's connections got you 15 bottles sold at once. That's leverage.
Ownership
You decide the name, the price, and what happens to the money. That's the whole deal.
Your first wholesale order
The $45 order that turned a lemonade-stand into a real thing.
Launch your business
Take the notebook, take the numbers, take the plan — and start.
You'll also get
- 9 story-based lessons with parent scripts
- A glossary of 11 real business terms
- Talk-it-over prompts for every lesson
- Hands-on 'Try It' actions that move a real business forward
- Capstone plan for launching their first venture
You'll skip
- ✕Cutesy business 'games' with fake money
- ✕Textbook definitions children can't repeat back
- ✕50-page PDFs that never leave the download folder
- ✕Curriculum that assumes the parent has an MBA
Every child needs a playbook.
- 9 lessons + capstone
- Glossary of 11 real terms
- Parent conversation prompts
- Business notebook framework
- Free updates for life
- Course discount when we launch
Callyn's swim teachers handed her a ten dollar bill for a bottle of cold brew. Nobody was buying to be nice. Something clicked — and it hasn't unclicked since. By the end of the year she had filled a $45 wholesale order and knew what "equity" meant.
— The story lesson 4 is built on
The courses.
The workbook is the starting line. This year we're rolling out full video courses — one for each life stage — so your child grows up building, not waiting.
The American Coffee Story
The video course built on the workbook. Watch Callyn's real business unfold, lesson by lesson.
The Second Business
For children who've sold their first thing — pricing, margin, teams, and their first hire.
The Teen Founder
From side project to real revenue. Contracts, taxes, and the first employee that isn't a sibling.
Grab the workbook now and you'll get the founding-member discount on every course we ship.
Corbin never stopped asking, "how could this work?"
A lifelong entrepreneur who has started 10+ companies — from electric guitars, to consulting, to data, to t-shirts, to cold brew, to preschools. His BuzzFeed-quiz age is 13, and he never stops asking, "how could this work?"
He wrote this workbook for his daughter Callyn — and then for every child whose curiosity deserves a first sale, not another worksheet.
Real families. Real results.
I didn't know it was so simple to get my children excited about business. So far, I've seen our five-year-old and our eight-year-old come up with some amazing ideas just from walking them through this.
I learned more than they did!
Corbin has a gift of preserving childlikeness in the midst of making real money.
My ten-year-old finally understands why her lemonade stand wasn't 'making money' even when people were buying. The cost lesson alone was worth it.
We did two lessons on a road trip and the kids argued over who got to be the 'founder.' Best car school we've done all year.
Finally, a business resource that doesn't talk down to children. My 7-year-old now uses the word 'customer' correctly and I didn't teach it to him.
We bought it for our 9-year-old, but our 12-year-old ended up doing the capstone with him. Now they have a real sibling business plan.
No worksheets. No busywork. Just real conversations about real money. This is exactly what our homeschool needed.
Yeah, but…
My child is 5. Isn't this too early?+
The story is built for 5–10. A five-year-old might take three lessons to cover what a nine-year-old does in one sitting. You go at their pace — the vocabulary sticks either way.
Do we have to start a real business?+
You don't have to — but the whole point is that you can. The lessons work with a lemonade stand, a bracelet business, or nothing at all. But we'd rather your child make a real $8 than fill in a worksheet.
Is this Christian / homeschool / secular?+
It's a business playbook, not a worldview. Homeschool parents wrote it, but it plugs into any schedule — after school, weekends, road trips.
What if my child hates it?+
Most children don't hate money. They hate worksheets. This is neither — it's a story with real numbers, real customers, and a real first sale.
Your child can start something this month.
Not a worksheet. A real first sale. A notebook that turns into a business plan. The playbook is $27.