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Children's lives today are complex, stressful, and dangerous. Kids are overscheduled, come home to empty houses and neighborhoods where they don't know a soul, and in school, face violence-all too often from their peers. In Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand, James Vollbracht provides a blueprint for transforming our unstable and disconnected culture into a healthier, supportive one. Vollbracht bases his approach on six overlapping circles of community-our personal circle, families, neighborhoods, larger communities, business worlds, and elders-and outlines simple actions within each circle that will help rescue our kids. Through a rich blend of heartwarming anecdotes and creative, practical strategies, Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand affirms the age-old wisdom that the power and responsibility to heal our communities rest in our own hands.… (more)
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I guess this book should be inspiring people to take more risks in embracing and touching the
I'm at a polka with my son and take an hour break from dancing to watch my son and a new friend run around the grounds of the community club. They notice a huge snowbank rendering a tree easy to climb. I watch, the smile on my face growing, as I reminisce about how this is what childhood is made of, and this is why I moved here. Immediately, "Get off that tree! Liability, etc. etc. from a representative of the building.
Add this to what appears to be a quintessential neighborhood but none of the kids play together outside. It's all done on the sports fields, something my son isn't interested in. Everyone seems terrified of us, no matter how many times I introduce myself, no matter how many times they see my husband walk him to school, play ball with him (alone) in our backyard, etc.
My son does make a connection with another non-sports kid, and when I meet the parents in order to establish a relationship, I find that his house is very unsafe and scary.
I think we're all worried about scary pedophiles, and the idea of a community where people connect again the way we used to seems more difficult than this author suggests.
I will continue to stop at every lemonade stand...