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title: These holiday gifts help your kids become entrepreneurs, team players and inventors
description: Great entrepreneurs are passionate, creative and resilient. What parent wouldn’t want their children to develop those traits, even if they don’t plan to start a business when they grow up? But is it possible to spark that entrepreneurial spirit with Christmas gifts? Yes, according to leaders of youth entrepreneur programs across the country.
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# These holiday gifts help your kids become entrepreneurs, team players and inventors

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MarketWatch

*By: Margot Cidulka on December 13, 2017*

Great entrepreneurs are passionate, creative and resilient. What parent wouldn’t want their children to develop those traits, even if they don’t plan to start a business when they grow up?

But is it possible to spark that entrepreneurial spirit with Christmas gifts? Yes, according to leaders of youth entrepreneur programs across the country.

We asked them for gift suggestions…

[Read More](http://incubatoredu.org/press/holiday-gifts-help-kids-become-entrepreneurs-team-players-inventors/)

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