Sending notes in school used be against the rules, but with Mini Locker Notes, your tween can send them in style and without getting detention! Small notecards and envelopes held in a tri-fold case with snap, your tween girl can ask a question of a friend or set up an after school get together while changing classes. She just slips the 3.2 x 2.5 x 1.3 inches card in a friend’s locker. Made in three colorful designs – Busy Bee, Psst (with trees and a hedgehog) and hiya (owls), there’s a total of 30 cards in the set.

The set is small enough to fit in a backpack and cute enough for tween girls to share silly notes and secrets. My daughter, Sammi used a few to let her friends know that she had to leave early one day. She’s also given to newly made friends with her phone number and email address so they can stay in contact outside of school. Of course there may be other reasons for her notes, but she’s keeping them from me!

A really adorable idea and incentive for writing and communicating with friends as well as an easy way to make new friends. The Mini Locker Notes are not too girly according to Sammi, but have that cute factor. She loves the bees and hedgehog and carefully chooses which note card to send to which friend. The cards are lined so it’s easy to keep writing legible, even if rushed.

Giveaway: One set of Mini Locker Notes by Chronicle Books (value $9.95)

The Rules:

1. Contest starts now and ends September 10 midnight EST.
2. Open to adults 18 and over from the US and Canada
3. One submission per household.
4. Winner will be chosen by Random.org.
5. Winner have 2 days to claim prize via email.
6. Have fun and tell your friends.

How To Enter:

For One Entry For Each Below: (please leave a separate comment for each entry)

1. Leave a comment about news your tween or teen like to share with friends. (or any child that you know)
2. Follow ConnieFoggles on Twitter and leave your Twitter name as a comment.
3. Follow RobynsWorld on Twitter and leave your Twitter name as a comment.
4. Use the Share Button and share this post (for example on Reddit, etc.) Leave a comment for each place you shared. One point for each share.
5. Leave a comment on another post (not a giveaway) and let me know what post please.
6. This giveaway is part of the Back To School Connection Event! Visit the main page and grab our Back To School button and share it on your blog for an extra entry into this and every giveaway during the event!
7. Tweet this exactly. You may tweet this daily: (leave a link to your tweet or your Twitter ID)

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Disclosure: I was provided with a pack of Mini Locker Notes to review and a pack will be provided to my winner by Chronicle Books. All opinions are 100% my own.

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Somehow tweens and losing things go hand in hand. Small things like keys, medium size things like pillows, big things like bicycles. Yes, it’s all happened to us. So when Sammi went back to school I wanted to be sure that all of her supplies, books and personal belongings had an identifying mark on them.

This way at lost and found, it would be easier to claim her own stuff. This way if someone picked her stuff they’d realize it wasn’t theirs. Thanks to Emily Press Labels, we found a way to mark her territory.

Sammi didn’t want babyish labels, since she is in middle school after all. Thankfully there’s the Hip & Whimsy Collection which features Camo, Skateboards, Flip Flops and more for the more fashionable older ages. Sammi chose the Peace style and her name was printed just as she asked. She affixed her labels to her folders, binders, pens and pencils, gym uniforms, lunch box, calculator, notebooks, ruler, thermos, etc.  And they really stick! And according to Sammi, they look awesome, which made me thrilled. See the small but very important domino effect?

The Hip & Whimsy Collection is part of the School Pack from Emily Press Labels which includes 130 personalized labels:

• 2 Large labels
• 10 Shoe labels
• 25 Slim labels
• 45 Pencil labels
• 48 Tag-a-Tag ™ Clothing labels

Features:

• Clothing labels – Laundry safe & sunscreen resistant
• Popular & Slim labels – Dishwasher/microwave safe
• Waterproof & fade resistant
• Pencil labels are water resistant
• Extra strong adhesive so labels stay on
• Full-color original designs

Giveaway: One School Label Pack from Emily Press Labels worth $49.95

The Rules:

1. Contest starts now and ends September 10 midnight EST.
2. Open to adults 18 and over from the US and Canada
3. One submission per household.
4. Winner will be chosen by Random.org.
5. Winner have 2 days to claim prize via email.
6. Have fun and tell your friends.

How To Enter:

For One Entry For Each Below: (please leave a separate comment for each entry)

Required: (If this entry is not done, all other entries will not count): Visit Emily Press Labels and leave a comment about something new that you learned that I haven’t mentioned in this post.

1. Leave a comment about something your child or you have lost.
2. Follow ConnieFoggles on Twitter and leave your Twitter name as a comment.
3. Follow RobynsWorld on Twitter and leave your Twitter name as a comment.
4. Use the Share Button and share this post (for example on Reddit, etc.) Leave a comment for each place you shared. One point for each share.
5. Leave a comment on another post (not a giveaway) and let me know what post please.
6. This giveaway is part of the Back To School Connection Event! Visit the main page and grab our Back To School button and share it on your blog for an extra entry into this and every giveaway during the event!
7. Tweet this exactly. You may tweet this daily: (leave a link to your tweet or your Twitter ID)

#Win @EmilyPress School Labels @ConnieFoggles http://bit.ly/ajjU9K PL RT

Disclosure: Emily Press Labels provided me with a School Pack of labels for my review and for the giveaway. All opinions are 100% my own.

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Wondering why Motorola TalkABout Two-Way radios are good for back to school? If your school doesn’t allow cell phones or your tween is too young for them,  Motorola TalkABouts work well for after school events or for parents to keep in touch with their tweens during pick up time.

Motorola TalkABout MC220R radios have:

• Up to 16 mile range
• 22 Channels, each with 38 privacy codes for 836 combinations
• 5 call tones
• Quiet Talk interruption feature
• Includes 2 radios, 2 belt clips, 1 dual charger, 1 charging adapter and 2 (3 x AA) NiMH rechargeable battery packs and 1 User’s Guide.
• Backlit display
• LCD battery display
• Keypad lock
• Audible low battery alert

My Review: We use the Motorola TalkABout during pick up time after school. I drive my daughter to and from school and pick up time can be hectic. Sometimes it’s hard for my daughter to find me. She turns her radio on as soon as she’s dismissed from school. I have mine on in the car and we can talk!

The radios are lightweight and sturdy, so keeping them in her backpack isn’t a problem. We charge them at night as needed. My daughter will be using the radios more as the school year goes on. I’ll give them to her for football games, dances and other after school events to share with a friend so they can keep in touch. We’ll also use them on trips to Disney World and other theme parks. This is also great experience for when I allow her to have a cell phone.

Buy Them: Motorola TalkABout MC220R 16-Mile 22-Channel FRS/GMRS Two-Way Radio are available on Amazon.com for $33.24.

Have you ever used a two-way radio? What about for school?

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Disclosure: I was provided with a set of Motorola TalkABout radios for this review. All opinions are 100% my own.

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