😯 “I’m always near you and I love you — Mom.” Someone had slipped this note into my son’s lunchbox. When I called the school, the principal said, “Come, you need to see this for yourself!”
Two days ago, my seven-year-old son came home from school very happy. He ran to me, hugged me tightly, and said:
“Mom, I loved your little note!”
“What note, sweetheart?” I asked.
“The one you left in my lunchbox.”
I was surprised because I hadn’t written anything. “Did you keep it? Can you show me?”
He took a small piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to me, his eyes full of joy.
I opened it and read: “I’m always near you. I love you. — Mom.”
Honestly, I was a little scared. Someone had opened his lunchbox without him noticing.
Very worried, I called the school. The principal told me she would take care of it. A few hours later, she called back saying, “Come to the school, you need to see this for yourself!”
The full text is in the article in the first comment 👇👇👇.
Watching the school’s security footage, the truth moved us deeply.
It showed an older student discreetly slipping little notes into the lunchboxes.
His gesture hid a touching story: he had lost his mother the previous year.
Every day, she had written him words of encouragement, and since her passing, he deeply missed this ritual.
So he had decided to give other children the comfort he no longer had.
In total, twelve students had received these kind messages.
The school had considered punishing him for touching other people’s belongings, but I opposed it.
The boy hadn’t harmed anyone; he had sown kindness.
My son had come home happy because of him.
In the end, instead of a punishment, he was named the “Lunch Note Ambassador,” with the school’s approval.
