My First Business / module 3 of 3
Profit Decisions: Spend, Save, Grow
With real profit in hand, the child faces the entrepreneur's eternal question: enjoy it, keep it, or put it back into the business?
Guide
Lay the profit on the table in three possible piles: spend, save, and reinvest in more materials. Do not steer; ask questions instead: 'If you buy more card, what happens next month? If you spend it all, what happens?' Whatever they choose, honour it and revisit the result in a month; the consequence is the teacher, not the parent.
Material
- Three-choice decision sheet with space to record the reasoning (platform library)
Activities
Decision evening: allocate the profit and write one sentence of reasoning. Follow-through: execute the choice, including the shopping trip if reinvesting. One month later: compare what happened against what they predicted.
You will need
The child's real profit from earlier modules.
Check yourself
Child makes an allocation, states a reason, and one month later explains what the choice caused in their own words.
Learn with AI
Ready-made prompts for this module. Copy one into your AI assistant and it becomes a patient tutor that follows the OSH method: no lecturing, no rote learning, hands-on activities included.
For the student
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For the parent or teacher
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How to set this up in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude
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