I believe you should always buy lemonade from a kid with a lemonade stand.
I don’t think you should always drink the lemonade. Sometimes, it’s probably best if you didn’t, because of germs, but I think you should buy it, because it helps the kid develop a healthy work ethic and sense of self-esteem. Given that a cup of lemonade is usually only a quarter, that’s a pretty good deal.
So, when Thing 2 and I spotted a lemonade stand down a side street while tooling around the neighborhood this afternoon, we turned around and went back.
Only it wasn’t a lemonade stand. It was a kid, probably around 5 or 6, selling drawings for 25 cents each. Thing 2 and I were disappointed, because it’s hot, and we really wanted that lemonade, but there was no way I was going to leave without buying something. I told Thing 2 to pick a drawing he liked. He picked one called ”big Lightsaber.”
Driving home, Thing 2 said he could draw a better-looking lightsaber. I told him that was beside the point but to give it a shot.
So, right now, he’s in the living room, making a life-size model of a lightsaber out of an empty paper-towel holder and construction paper.
It isn’t for sale.
Always get it signed-you never know!
It wasn’t signed, and by the time we turned around and drove back, the artist was taking a potty break.
Artists!
Kids are the most awesome things ever.
Oh, yeah. Kids rock.
I always stop at roadside “stands” set up by kids. I bought a tattered stuffed animal at the last one I went to, but I had to promise to love it and take care of it. And a lemonade.
That is cute. I have never seen lemonade stand in my neck of the woods, or I would stop and buy a cup.
You are a generous man. My kids are waiting out front.
That’s so nice of you!
Aww, you’re too nice — and what a great lesson and example you’ve given Thing 2!
This post was worth three times the price of admission.
Well, obviously we will need a picture of Thing 2′s lightsaber as well!
My neighborhood is like lemonade standapalooza! There always seems to be a stand out in the grassy median at the entrance to our street, which also happens to be right in front of our house. We always try to buy some.
My son wanted to do one a few weeks ago, and it just happened that we were about to do an MS Walk, and he informed us he wanted to give all the money to charity. So everything he made that day went as a charitable contribution to the MS Society. I think he made about $45, because once people found out it was for charity, they gave lots more than just the 50 cents we were asking for the lemonade and/or bag of cookies. It was a raving success! It was also good for him to learn skills of interpersonal communication, entrepreneurship, charitable contributions, and the value of money.