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MILWAUKEE — On a sun-kissed day, 7-year-old Tameria Legister is brought to tears extracurricular her lemonade stand.
Overcome with emotions due to the fact that her teacher showed up.
Perhaps that infinitesimal of hugging was sweeter than Tameria's lemonade.
She and her ma marque it the old-fashioned way.
"We really compression the lemons. We get down!" her ma said.
Tameria archetypal told ma she wanted a lemonade basal erstwhile she was four.
Takela Legister recalls, "She was like, 'hey ma, retrieve erstwhile you said I could get a lemonade stand?' I was similar sure."
Tameria enjoys her entrepreneurial venture.
She notes, "It feels good. I marque wealth and spot my loved ones."
Her basal satisfies customers with homemade citrus drinks: Strawberry, raspberry, and classical lemonade.
What makes Tameria's lemonade special?
Tameria says, "My ma helps me, and it's made with love. I similar to marque radical blessed and quench their thirst."
Takela explains, "She doesn't similar it excessively sweet. She doesn't similar it excessively sour. I spell disconnected her sensation buds due to the fact that it's her product."
Takela says her girl inspires her.
"She's precise motivated to learn, and thing is excessively large for her. She's kind, she's smart, she's precise motivated," said Takela.
Mom besides says selling lemonade has been a learning acquisition for her daughter.
"Counting money, however to greet people, however to speech to people. Her societal skills, her radical skills," Takela said. "She was shy, truthful this has fundamentally opened her up to socializing with people, truthful that's good."
Takela adds, "Saving, we spell to the slope erstwhile a week, and she wants to spot the deposit. I tin accidental increasing up, and I did not cognize overmuch astir fiscal literacy."
But ma besides stresses sharing. "I spell with the 3 S's. So, we tin save, spend, and share. We person to springiness back. She ever wants to springiness backmost astir the holidays. It's teaching her to springiness backmost and fto her cognize determination are radical little fortunate than her."
Tameria and her ma adjacent wrote a publication unneurotic called "Dreaming of Tameria's Lemonade."
Both anticipation Tameria's lemonade basal and the publication is simply a ray of hope, encouraging different kids to travel their dreams.
"Anything is possible. That's what we accidental each the time, " says Takela.
"Yeah, thing is possible," echoes Tameria. They some laugh.
Carole Meekins astatine TMJ4 archetypal reported this story.
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