Every parent knows that letting your kid do a lemonade stand is a fail proof way to lose money. Kids are always so excited to make the lemonade and more importantly make a lot of money.
We know they never even break-even. The kids sit their in the hot sun, with the crappy self-made signs, begging every neighbor who walks by to give them a quarter. And all that 25 cents gets you is what is now lukewarm sour, yellow, water with some lemon flavor to it.
What we learn from this is location, location, location. Parents, why do you insist on forcing your kids to stay in a safe place? Why not let them go into a crowded city, where people are walking to work, and tired. The kids could then branch out from lemonade to selling newspapers, and hot dogs!
They could use the profits to invest in even better refrigeration systems for the lemonade, a grill for hamburgers...the possibilities are endless. In the end, parents are the downfall of the multi-million dollar lemonade stand empire that could have been.
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