Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/scanning-the-lunch-box-papers/5007754/
Working mothers with one small child behave differently than working mothers with several children.There is abundant proof of this in the notes mothers put in their children's lunch boxes before dropping them at the day care center. These documents are rarely preserved for scholarly research, so we have reconstructed here the notes to a day care center teacher we'll call Debbie as they might be written by the mother of an only child (in italics) and by the same mother of the same child with several brothers and sisters.
We'll call them The Lunch Box Papers.
Dear Debbie:
Lemuel was a cherished name in my husband's family from the Revolutionary War until about 1910. We were very proud to revive that name for our baby.
That is why I am so distressed at the careless use of nicknames at the day care center.
Will you please call him by his full name Lemuel and see that the other children do likewise?
He is not to be called "Lem" or "Lemmie" or, as I heard one teacher call him, the disgusting "Lembo."
Dear Debbie:
The good news is that Lemmie no longer wants to be called "Mr. T."
The bad news is that he's now going by the name ...