What better way to quench your thirst on a hot summer day than a cold glass of lemonade. Right in the heart of Brookland is the best lemonade stand that has also become a successful business.

The key to the success is the same for any business. Location, foot traffic, advertisement and most important for any lemonade stand: it is owned and operated by kids.

Christine, Maria, Nicole and their brother Christian wanted new computers, toys, games and the latest fashion apparel.

The same as most kids. Mr. Agurnaldo told his children: “if you want that stuff, you will have to earn it.” Having four children between the ages of 7 and 16, it was time to start teaching them the value of money and the responsibility of what money is.

Located on 10th Street between Jackson and Kearney, you can hear the youngest, Christine, yelling, “Lemonade—ice cold lemonade!”

Donald Stephens and Roderick Thomas stopped by for a large lemonade and oatmeal cookies. The two men are electrical contractors installing traffic lights on 12th Street. “I come by all the time,” Stephens said as he wiped the heat away from his brow. Thomas took a gulp and chimed in, “It’s good lemonade and the cookies are a bonus.”

Mrs. Agurnaldo gets up early in the morning and bakes the cookies before she goes to work. Some have nuts and others have chocolate chips. They are huge.

Rhonda Poke, on her way to Providence Hospital, stopped and bought her grandson a cookie. “Wow—it is almost as big as his whole head,” said Ms. Poke as her grandson smiled with a cookie in his mouth.

Whoever stopped at the stand, there was one theme: we have got to support the children. They have no bailout money.

None of the employees are being laid off. Their inventory has expanded to jewelry and candy. This is one business truly operating in the American tradition of entrepreneurship: a family doing it the old-fashioned way. Turning lemons into lemonade.