“With my kids, when I’m sharing Lunchbox Lessons with them, they know that I love them, they know that I care, and they know that I’m investing in them. ‘No other parent does this.’ That’s what my daughters told me. And I said: ‘That’s right. Because you are exceptional kids.‘” – Russ Sorrells

Our founder, Russ, found proactive lessons to be very important with his daughters, especially lessons about love, because they had never experienced that “puppy love” yet. However, he knew that eventually they would. So he wanted to tell them NOW, about the trap of puppy love and what they’re going to experience as teenagers.

“I told them, you’re going to want to spend every second, every waking moment texting, talking, being with, being around a boy. It’s going to happen. But I want you to understand that isn’t love. You’re going to think it’s love. You’re going to say “this is it”. But your body is tricking you. it happens to everybody.  It’s how it works. It’s nature just doing it’s thing. I know I can’t tell you that when you’re in it, so I just want you to understand that before you’re in it.”

Lunchbox Lessons provides the tools your child needs to understand how life works. Our lessons cover topics like:

• Love – To help parents proactively discuss love and discuss “puppy love” with their teens before they start wanting to spend every second texting, talking, and being around a boy/girl.
• Courage – How to be strong in life’s hardest moments.
• Fear – Rational vs. Irrational; Managing and coping with anxiety (Especially relevant now a days)
• Goals – Planning/managing time to meet goals
• Realistic Expectations – One of our most important jobs as parents is to keep our children grounded in reality. There’s a big disconnect between how life is presented in television and movies, and how it truly is.

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The number one comment we get from new parents is, “I feel like a phony teaching my kids things that I know nothing about.”

Lunchbox Lessons was built to empower parents to share these lessons with their kids. You might not feel worthy, or like an impostor if you’re teaching kids how to be courageous but you’re not courageous in your own mind. Guess what? It doesn’t matter. It’s detrimental that your kids be exposed to these lessons so that they have a leg up in the world. Whether or not you live these values to a T, your kids will benefit from being exposed to these lessons.

And along the way, you can become a better person yourself because you’re exposed to it too!