Comments on: How to Get Your Kids to Write Thank-You Notes

on 7/18/2007 Great comments. One of my kids has a hard time thinking of what to say. I found a web-page with fill-in-the-blank starter thank yous for kids and a little thank you for my youngest. http://www.my-thank-you-site.com/kids-thank-you-notes.html

on 11/22/2005 When my kids get gifts, they cannot use or play with the toys until the thank-you notes are written and sent. It works like a charm!

on 11/22/2005 Make a checklist of who sent what, and put the address next to the name. That way any child who is old enough to write legibly can address the envelope, too. I do one of my own as an example of how to set up the envelope. The child can write the address in pencil, if he or she wants, and you can trace over it in pen, then erase the pencil later. Get fun stamps, which the kids can then put on at the very end.

on 11/22/2005 As my kids got older and a little harder to persuade, we simply told them that they could enjoy the gifts only when their thank you notes were written.

on 6/21/2007 We let the kids play with their gifts on the day they receive them. But, then we put them in the closet the next day and they cannot take them out until they have written all of their thank you notes.