A MOTHER’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
PEOPLE often ask me how I’ve raised such successful kids. I tell them that I did it by letting them follow their interests.
I love my kids, and I’m so proud of them for everything that they’ve accomplished. My eldest child, Elon, is making electric cars to save the environment and launching rockets. My middle child, Kimbal, opened farm-to-table restaurants and is teaching children across the United States to build fruit and vegetable gardens. My youngest child, Tosca, runs her own entertainment company, producing and directing romance films from bestselling novels.
They all showed their interests at an early age.
When Elon was young, I noticed that he read everything. I was a reader, too, but I’d forget a story the moment it was done. Elon, on the other hand, remembered everything he read. He was always absorbing information. We called him “the encyclopaedia” because he’d read the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Colliers Encyclopaedia – and remembered everything.
That’s also why we called him Genius Boy – we could ask him anything. Remember, this was before the internet. I guess now we’d call him The Internet.
When Elon was young, I noticed that he read everything
He got his first computer at 12. It was 1983, and computers were very, very new. He learned to use it and wrote a computer program, Blastar, which was a game. I showed it to some university students who were in my modelling school
These guys were in their
