This past Saturday, I did probably the most annoying thing I have done in my seven-plus years of being a mom: I made my daughter write thank-you notes for her First Communion gifts. And oh.my.word was it the worst ever.
Mind you, I believe in thank-you notes. Love them. I like getting them and even like writing them. But making a whiny child do it? Ugh. However, I do think it's important to teach her at a young age to do it herself instead of just do the task for her.
What helped was having sort of a basic template: "Dear ___, Thank you for the __. I really liked (aspect of the gift), or in the case of money, "I will (save it/spend it on X thing I have always wanted, etc.). It was great to see you at my party. Love, __. Uncomplicated, does the job, and she can handle it herself. The other thing that would have helped is letting her do them in smaller bits, but it was a small party (she only had, like, six) and we were kind of overdue in getting them out.
Now I just have to address them, stick on stamps and get them in the mail!
What's your go-to strategy for thank-you notes? Do you think they are important?
I think they are super important. I actually never got to send out my thank yous from my baby shower last year. I was supposed to hand them out to everyone, but I started not feeling well and I had finals to study for and got distracted and kept forgetting them. I felt horrible about not sending them and I made sure to tell everyone thank you when I saw them so they didn't think I was lazy/rude.
I will be the one keeping track of who gives DS what at his 1st birthday in a month. I don't trust anyone else to be incharge of that.
Right now dd is only 3 so when we do thank you notes I usually write them out and she writes her name and draws a picture on them
Quoting Mrs.Pool2Be:I have to admit that I am bad about sending out thank you cards.
I value thank you notes it shows you really appreciate something that is given to you.
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on May. 17, 2012 at 12:00 AM