Lunch Notes to Our Children by Nicole Hewitt,

     Lunch Notes to Our Children is a quick read with short, to the point chapters. And I think it will be a useful book to reference. It has some lunch note examples you can use and some bible verses to refer to, and it even includes little tiny squares to cut out and put your notes on. I won’t be using those, because I personally think it will make the book unpleasant to look at, and if you tear the pages out then you just have a book that will flip to random missing pages, and that just isn’t something that makes me feel good.

   The beginning of each chapter includes a note in a font that I think is supposed to make it look handwritten, and I thought that was pretty cute. The examples seemed a bit long winded to me. I feel like most kids would be excited to get a note in their lunch box, but won’t want to read something that comes off as a lecture, and that’s how I felt reading the examples.

   The note included in front of the first chapter, said something that bothered me. It’s more of a problem with the wording, than a problem with the message.

 The note said “stick up for someone others are making fun of a little too much.” 

  I understand the point. I think the author was trying to say that you should stick up for people if they are being made fun of, but that’s not how the wording comes across. The wording of this particular quote makes it sound as if being made fun of is ok, and to only interfere when it’s become too much. I think we should be encouraging our kids to stick up for others who are being made fun of, period. Not if it becomes too excessive. In my opinion we should be teaching our kids fun should not be had at the expense of another person. But, I am willing to admit that I think the wording is just off, and the author didn’t mean for kids to sit by until it becomes a problem.

    We are a homeschooling family, and I found that there wasn’t a lot of stuff that really pertained to us. I do think that I can still use this book when it comes to activities, and times when we are around other kids. But for us, it will mostly be used as a reference for little bits of advice, rather than actually writing notes.
   If you would like to grab yourself a copy of this book, just head on over to Amazon.

   I was given this book in exchange for a review. And I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity.