Buying The Lunch Box Your Kid Will Love
My son is starting school this week, and even though he’s not yet two years old we call where he is going school because the word sounds better than daycare. I like to imagine that when I drop him off in his classroom two mornings each week, as he toddles away from me, that he is there to learn. Not because mom needs someone to take care of him while she works.
The moment I knew that daycare was going to be a reality was when I purchased my son’s very first lunch box. We were in Target looking through all the colorful insulated cases, trying to decide if he should get a superhero lunch box or one emblazoned with the face of his favorite muppet, Elmo. I eventually decided to go with Batman because it had a cape attached to the back, and the Elmo case seemed boring and juvenile in comparison. Though I suppose a twenty-one-month-old child doesn’t care much about his belongings appearing juvenile. I made the selection of the lunch box into a huge event marking my child’s independence, because for the first time in his life he will be regularly eating his lunch away from home.
I still remember my first lunch box. My mom bought it for me when I started pre-school and it was metal with a big pink Barbie face on the front. I loved that box, and I carried my lunch in it for two years, until I started first grade and had to switch up to something more mature. I believe my first grade lunch box featured the Smurfs. A first lunch box is a big deal when you’re a little kid. I remember knowing the kids in my school by which kind of lunch box they carried their lunch in each day. Most of the boys had robot-based lunch gear, while the girls were into Barbie and Care Bears. The really mature kids didn’t carry their food in a lunch box at all and just showed up at school with their lunches crammed into a wrinkled brown paper bag. I remember trying to understand what would make them choose a plain old bag over a shiny metal box with a cartoon character on the front. Now I realize that maybe it wasn’t a choice they got to make.
Anyway, my son is starting school this week and I am going to try not to cry when I watch him walk away from me carrying his Batman lunch box.
[…] Most of us remember the first lunch box that we carried to school. Infact some of us still treasure it in our cupboard and display it proudly to our dear ones. What makes our lunch box so special? It is after all another box. Whatever the reason, it would be nice to buy a good lunchbox for your kid. He or she will remember it forever. To know more, read the article “Buying The Lunch Box Your Kid Will Love“. […]