WFMW - Personal Mailboxes
Since it's the day before Valentine's, I thought I would post a suggestion that would help your kids know that you love them... all year long!
I don't know about you, but I LOVE getting real mail. But with the convenience of email and postage being outrageous, we don't receive much in the way of real mail - only credit card applications, mailers and other stuff. Oh yeah... and bills. Going to the mailbox isn't any fun anymore.
Years ago, my mother-in-awe sent a valentine present to my daughter. It was candy in a metal Snoopy mailbox. It even has a flag on the side. My daughter loved that candy and the container too. Have I mentioned that she also can be a bit of a packrat? Well, she can be.
One day, I left her a note in her mailbox, flipped up the flag and waited to see how long it would take her to discover it when she came home from school.
Not long. That's all I can tell you.
She walked right into her room, saw the flag was up and ran to it. She loved the note. She loved the communication. She loved that it was for her and her alone. She checked that box every day for a week and then some...
I think I'm onto something here.
You know how kids go beserk when they get a letter from someone? It works the same even if it doesn't comes in the "real" mail too. A letter is a letter is a letter to them.
Over the years, I've placed little notes, little gifts, whatever I wanted to put into that box. Sometimes it takes her a while to discover it; other times she finds it right away. She always loves the attention and little nods of love going her way.
My son wants a box of his own too, so I'll have to figure out something that will work for him as well.
So I guess leaving mail for my kids works for me. And so do the hugs and kisses that I get for taking the time to do it in the first place.
Head on over to Chilihead, our lov-er-ly surrogate host for this week for some other great tips.
I don't know about you, but I LOVE getting real mail. But with the convenience of email and postage being outrageous, we don't receive much in the way of real mail - only credit card applications, mailers and other stuff. Oh yeah... and bills. Going to the mailbox isn't any fun anymore.
Years ago, my mother-in-awe sent a valentine present to my daughter. It was candy in a metal Snoopy mailbox. It even has a flag on the side. My daughter loved that candy and the container too. Have I mentioned that she also can be a bit of a packrat? Well, she can be.
One day, I left her a note in her mailbox, flipped up the flag and waited to see how long it would take her to discover it when she came home from school.
Not long. That's all I can tell you.
She walked right into her room, saw the flag was up and ran to it. She loved the note. She loved the communication. She loved that it was for her and her alone. She checked that box every day for a week and then some...
I think I'm onto something here.
You know how kids go beserk when they get a letter from someone? It works the same even if it doesn't comes in the "real" mail too. A letter is a letter is a letter to them.
Over the years, I've placed little notes, little gifts, whatever I wanted to put into that box. Sometimes it takes her a while to discover it; other times she finds it right away. She always loves the attention and little nods of love going her way.
My son wants a box of his own too, so I'll have to figure out something that will work for him as well.
So I guess leaving mail for my kids works for me. And so do the hugs and kisses that I get for taking the time to do it in the first place.
Head on over to Chilihead, our lov-er-ly surrogate host for this week for some other great tips.
Originally published May 5, 2007
posted by Shalee at 7:04 AM
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