Comments on: How not to remind teens to write thank you notes https://simplysusan.com.au/how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes Musing thru Marriage, Motherhood & Mess Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: Susan McCurdy https://simplysusan.com.au/how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes/#comment-2099 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:16:17 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/?p=4281#comment-2099 This is interesting. I do think it’s appropriate to write thank you notes and have hounded my kids to do it …as well as sent some very over-due one’s myself just to be sure I at least showed gratitude no matter how late.

However, I try not to expect thank you notes for the kindnesses I do. They do make me feel great but I don’t give gifts or do kind things just to get a thank you note. So I decided to not worry if I don’t get them. It’s rather freeing! “Whatever you do, do it unto the Lord….”

]]> By: Bek https://simplysusan.com.au/how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes/#comment-2098 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:53:38 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/?p=4281#comment-2098 Too funny!

]]> By: Vanessa https://simplysusan.com.au/how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes/#comment-2097 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:31:14 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/?p=4281#comment-2097 That’s brilliant! I have many relatives … the best family I could wish for actually, and have tried to keep up with helping my little kids write or call with thanks for gifts mailed to them. I plan to get back into it this week, having just celebrated 2 birthdays. For a couple of years I found it hard to keep up, with illness etc, but feeling bad about not writing and then trying to express it in a group letter once a year was more exhausting than just writing promptly would have been. I’m one of those who can never just sign a birthday card with To and Love from, I have to personalise it because I care. I need to find a workable balance.

]]> By: Margaret https://simplysusan.com.au/how-not-to-remind-teens-to-write-thank-you-notes/#comment-2096 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:33:41 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/?p=4281#comment-2096 I quit sending gifts to some of my nieces and nephews when thank-you notes stopped arriving. Their parents asked me why, and I told them that I didn’t feel like sending gifts that the kids couldn’t bother to thank me for. They were offended! Can you believe it?

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