u/Skr000

When my son started kindergarten, I packed his lunch and wrote him a note with a drawing each day. After a week, he asked me to stop writing notes because it made him miss me too much and he was sad for the second half of the day. He chose school lunch from then on.

Now my son is in 5th grade. All his friends bring their lunch, so now he wants to start bringing his. I packed a lunch with far too much food and tucked a little note for him just like I did five years ago.

I asked him how his lunch was when he got home, and I recognized the hesitancy immediately. He once again asked me to stop writing notes in his lunch, but now because it was too embarrassing in front of his friends.

The heartbreak of a lunch note.