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Think independently
The first phase of the workbook is just hunting for problems. Not for the answer — for the question. That muscle is everything.
About Kid Founder
Built by a dad. For his daughters.
Kid Founder started at a kitchen table in Fort Worth, Texas. Two daughters, one workbook, and a question their dad couldn't shake: what if kids actually got taught how to build?
The story
Why Kid Founder Exists
Kid Founder started from a simple belief:
Kids are capable of far more than most people give them credit for.
Too often, kids get taught how to memorize information and follow instructions, but they rarely get taught how to think creatively, solve a real problem, communicate a real idea, or build something from scratch.
Entrepreneurship teaches all of those things — and it teaches them in a way that sticks, because a kid either landed a real customer or they didn't.
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It teaches
- Initiative
- Starting before you feel ready. The kid who can't wait to set up the stand learns to start strong.
- Resilience
- A no isn't a stop sign — it's data. Every page in the workbook turns the no into the next step.
- Ownership
- It's their business. Their decisions. Their money in the jar. That ownership changes them.
- Confidence
- Not the trophy kind. The earned kind. The proof that they can do hard things — because they did.
The two who started it
Built around two real kids.
Even after twenty years of building companies, Jamey wasn't teaching his own two daughters this well. He'd cheer on a lemonade stand and call it parenting — but he didn't have the thing that would actually walk a kid through the whole arc, idea to dollars. So he built it. They're the reason Kid Founder exists, and the first real run-through with them starts this summer.
The founder
Meet Jamey Ice
Jamey Ice grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and started his first real thing — a band — when he was fifteen. Since then he's started a lot of things: a few real estate companies, a coffee shop, a marketing studio, a couple of restaurants. A few he sold. A few he's still running. Some worked, some didn't, and he learned the most from the ones that didn't.
He wrote this book for two reasons. The first: nobody handed him anything like it when he was nine, and he spent years figuring out on his own what these pages teach in one semester. The second is sitting across the kitchen table from him — his daughters, Rosie and Justice, the same Rosie and JJ you meet all through this book. They're why it exists — and the reason he wrote down every page he wished he'd had at nine.
Jamey lives in an old house in Fort Worth with his wife, Melissa, and their two founders-in-training. Find more of what he's building at jameyice.com and theices.net — or come say hi: @JameyIce.
The goal isn't just to teach business. The goal is to help kids believe they can create something meaningful.
Our mission
Help kids do five hard things on purpose.
Confidence, creativity, leadership, entrepreneurial thinking. Big words. Here's what each one looks like at the kitchen table.
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Solve problems creatively
Most kids learn to walk away from a problem. We teach them to walk into it — sketch it, name the customer, try the first thing, then the second thing.
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Build confidence through action
Confidence isn't taught. It's shipped. One small sale, one real customer, and a kid sees themselves differently for the rest of their life.
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Learn practical life skills
Pricing. Pitching. Handling a no. Counting profit. The stuff school never teaches and adulthood demands.
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Turn ideas into reality
By page 100, the kid has a product, a brand, a customer, and a number written in a jar. That's the goal.
What we believe
Five things that don't move.
Kids learn best by creating.
Watch a kid sit through a lecture. Now watch one selling lemonade. The second one is using everything — math, language, social skills, judgment — at once.
Confidence grows through action.
Telling a kid they're capable doesn't make them feel it. Putting cash from a real customer in their hand does.
"The kid who's stopped scrolling and started selling has already learned something most adults haven't."
Entrepreneurship is bigger than business.
Even if they never start a company, the skill of seeing a problem and reaching for a solution rewires how they move through life.
Creativity is a skill, not a personality trait.
The kid who 'isn't creative' just hasn't been shown how creative thinking actually works. We show them the steps.
Kids should learn how to solve problems — not just memorize the answers.
The world is going to demand creators, not memorizers. Schools are slow to adjust. Parents don't have to be.
Common questions
About Kid Founder
Who made this?
Jamey Ice — musician, real-estate operator, dad of two daughters in Fort Worth, Texas. The workbook came out of trying to teach his own kids and realizing nothing on the shelf was built for ages 8–12 in a serious way.
Why is the workbook for ages 8–12 specifically?
That's the window where kids stop just dreaming and start asking, could I actually make money doing this? Younger and they need more scaffolding. Older and they're already in the world of side hustles and YouTube channels. Ages 8–12 is the sweet spot where a workbook still feels like an adventure.
Is this Christian / faith-based?
Jamey is a Christian and that shapes how he builds — patience with kids, a long view, a real belief that work is dignified. But the workbook itself isn't faith-based curriculum. It works for any family, any school, any classroom.
Are Rosie and JJ really in the book?
Yes. Rosie and Justice (JJ) are in the examples, and they're the reason the workbook exists — their dad wanted them to learn this at nine, not at twenty-five. The first real run-through with them starts this summer, and their stories are what populates the Founders' Wall over time.
Is this affiliated with a curriculum company or publisher?
No. Kid Founder is independent — self-published, family-run. The workbook is on Amazon. The website is built and maintained in Fort Worth.
Can I follow Jamey's other work?
Yes — his personal site is theices.net and he's on Instagram @jameyice.
Built by a dad who actually did it.
$21.99 on Amazon. Ages 8–12. ~155 pages they get to write in.