Love Notes in Lunchboxes: And Other Ideas to Color Your Child's Day

Love Notes in Lunch Boxes, sub-titled "...and other ideas to color your child's day" is bound to lighten your `chore' in making and packing a lunch for the kids. Not to mention the fun the kids will have when they find little notes tucked in between the apple and the peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The book has 169 pages of all kinds of tips, hints, tid-bits, stories and vignettes that will bring a smile as you read. For example, Chapter Two deals with Special Days - birthdays, holidays, silly days, like After a Hard Homework Day. Gilden mentions that 5th grade at their elementary school is a dreaded year. It is a year of transition for the children, with so much to learn, and the homework piles up. So, this little section gives some nice suggestions for inclusion into the lunch box, and a little note example that reads: "Wish I could have been more help with your math homework last night. We didn't learn it that way in the good old days. Be sure to ask your teacher for a little extra help if you still need it. Remember 1+1+1+1= (Dad+Mom+Sis+you) = our family and it's the perfect answer!" That's just one small taste of all that is offered. There is another chapter in which the author mentions "Colorful Love Notes and Lunchboxes" For a "Red Lunch" pack the lunchbox with a pizza slice with tomato sauce; radishes; a red Delicious Apple and red licorice stick. An "Orange Lunch" would include a sandwich with American cheese, carrots, cheese curls and orange slices. The last pages of the book contain templates in different shapes, sizes and designs you can trace or photocopy, cut out, and personalize for your own special notes. All in all, this book has a lot of good stuff. And, when you get right down to it, you don't need to be confined to just kids. Many husbands take lunches to work, too. Imagine the smile on hubby's face when he finds that special little note just for him. Love Notes in Lunchboxes. Get your copy today and see how much fun you can have with your kids - and hubby!

I wish I had thought of putting love notes in my kids' lunch boxes. I got this book for my daughter so my grandchildren can benefit from it. In fact, I think it's a great book to keep on hand for baby shower gifts. It is packed with ideas about how to make lunches special with notes and other ways to make lunchtime special.

What a neat book! In Love Notes, Gilden offers enough lunchbox ideas to keep moms sending notes throughout their child's school years. She includes creative lists, games, coupons, recipes--even reproducible templates for notes. In addition, she gives moms suggestions on other times to send notes (camp, college, etc) and includes fun lunchbox trivia in each chapter. Throughout the book, kids who received notes in their lunches weigh in on the benefits they received.

Treat yourself to a healthy portion of love with Linda Gilden's Love Notes in Lunchboxes. In this fun book, Gilden serves up creative ways to impact the lives of your children and others with lunchbox notes and other methods of encouragement. Take a bite out of the daily mundane chore of lunchbox preparation by incorporating some of the interesting ideas Gilden suggests. I wanted to shrink my children, now college and high school freshmen, down to kindergarten age and start over implementing the Love Notes menu items. But this book is about much more than food prep. Love Notes in Lunchboxes dishes up ways to bring out the best in others by being an encourager. So get in the lunch line at the nearest bookstore for your copy of Love Notes in Lunchboxes. Then, during your next lunch hour, savor nuggets of wisdom while digesting scripture truths. You'll be filled by the delicious combination of anecdotes, creative ideas, and practical advice. Partakers won't leave the table hungry. Love Notes is a satisfying read.

When I started reading Love Notes In Lunchboxes by Linda Gilden I felt guilty that I never added notes to my kid's lunchboxes when they were in school. I justified my lack of notes by remembering that I had sons. Sons don't respond to gimmicks like love notes, I thought. Then I read about Linda's son and how much he valued those notes. More guilt. Thank goodness I kept reading. By the end of the book I was excited about how I could use love notes with my adult children who are living far from home. I realized that the same concepts that Linda used so wonderfully with her kids are concepts I can use with my sons, husband, mother, and even with my siblings. Love Notes In Lunchboxes is a delightful book filled with personal stories, notes from kids about how much lunchbox boxes meant to them growing up, tons of great holiday examples, and ideas for every situation imaginable. There are even blank love notes parents can copy and use for their own children. For those who have kids or grand kids, will have kids, or have other family members you want to encourage, this is a must have book. If you are active in the PTA or any other group of parents please recommend they promote this book. It's usually the simple, free things that make a difference in the lives of our children and this book is an excellent example.