At his last school, my son, now 13, was making a tidy profit selling biscuits at break time. He would buy a double pack of Bourbons, his favourite, for 72p and sell them for £1 each. The empty packets in his pockets gave him away and I had to put a stop to his mini-mogul ambitions.
My two teenagers are also displaying entrepreneurial skills worthy of Apprentice contestants. The pair of them, aged 15 and 17, have become part of what is known as the “generation Z social stock market” — selling their old clothes and other bits and bobs on social media.
According to a report by the online shopping platform Depop, created by The Digital Fairy, teens have built a “micro economy
