![]() I’ve continued this with my own kids, and I always make their pb&js with Smucker’s Jam and Jif Creamy Peanut Butter. My favorite has always been Jif Creamy Peanut Butter, and I have always preferred jam over jelly, especially Smucker’s Jam. I am very particular about my peanut butter and have been since I was a kid. ![]() One kid prefers strawberry jam, another grape jam, and my youngest likes both on her sandwich at the same time. All three of my older kids enjoy PB&Js in their lunch boxes just like I did, though they do like them a little differently. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have powered my days since I was a kid in school, and now they do the same for my school-age children. And I can even understand the impetus to chronicle/display well-crafted notes via pinterest – more power to someone who is skilled and crafty, taking pride in their work.īut the pre-made, store-bought note is ridiculous, not to mention it’s such a cynical ploy on the part of retailers.Do you like to put little notes in your kids’ lunches? Grab these Early Reader Lunch Box Notes for your little ones! There are many other absurd helicopter-parent behaviors we could list, that – unlike lunchbox notes – don’t stem from the admirable, genuine desire to bolster our kids with love from their family, inside and outside our homes. I disagree that lunchbox notes, as a whole, are smothering. I’ve written them occasionally for my son, now 5 if nothing else, they’re a great way to use up scrap paper and extra stickers □ ![]() I don’t remember getting lunch-box notes as a kid (but there are enough years between now & then, I can’t remember a lot of those details!). Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 Bettina Elias Siegel Sending unconditionally praising messages like, “I can’t believe how creative you are” in a child’s lunch on a regular basis seems like serious overkill to me, devaluing the messages themselves and maybe even intruding on a child’s sense of independence while at school.Īm I shocking you with my anti-lunch-box-note stance? Do you worry my own kids will lack self-esteem because I’ve failed to reaffirm their worth daily, along with their PBJ’s and carrot sticks? Let me hear what you think.ĭo You Love The Lunch Tray? ♥♥♥ Then “like” The Lunch Tray! Join over 1,200 TLT fans by “ liking” TLT’s Facebook page (or “ follow ” on Twitter) and you’ll get your Lunch delivered fresh daily, along with bonus commentary, interesting kid-and-food links, and stimulating discussion with other readers. Sure, I’ve certainly sent a note or two in my years of packing lunches, but only on birthdays and maybe the first day of school, or if I knew my kid was facing a particularly hard day. It speaks, I think, to the larger societal trend of parents obsessing and hovering over their offspring to an unprecedented degree (a parenting style which may well backfire - see, e.g., the much-talked-about Atlantic article from this past summer, “ How to Land Your Kid in Therapy.”) I may stir up some reader ire here, but this obsession over creating (or buying) the perfect lunch box note - indeed, the sending of any kind of lunch box note with great frequency – strikes me as a little icky. Some parents on Pinterest share techniques for using toothpicks to etch designs and messages into the exterior of bananas. The website CafeMom has an article suggesting gift-wrapping a sandwich with a note on the inside of the wrapping paper. Keeps track of lunch-note ideas on Pinterest, a social network popular with crafters and teachers. The flourishes can be hard to top. The article mentions one creative mom who ![]() Messages include “You’ve become so mature,” “I love you unconditionally” and “I can’t believe how creative you are.”īut some parents don’t even stop at store-bought notes. Lunchbox Love, a line of preprinted cards from Say Please, Inc., are priced at $3.99 for a small box of 12 at Pottery Barn Kids. Pottery Barn Kids and Toys “R” Us sold packets of preprinted notes this back-to-school season. Parents hear about it when their efforts fall short.Įnter the retailers. Or they may compare lunch notes with friends. Some kids complain when they don’t get a lunch note. Now it’s an elaborate fixture of the school cafeteria. The lunch-box note used to be an occasional smiley face on scratch paper. My mom sent me a link to this story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about a reported increase in the use of the “lunch box note,” i.e., a little message from mom (or dad) tucked into a packed school lunch to brighten up a kid’s day. ![]()
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