Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids

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.

Author: James Vollbracht
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.18h x 5.86w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780141001500

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1807

About the Author
James Vollbracht is president of Higher Ground Associates, an organization focusing on building connected communities for kids, and a senior trainer, coordinator, and consultant for Search Institute and their national Healthy Community/Healthy Youth Initiative.