I’m an old-fashioned, thank you notes
kinda girl and I’m trying to instill that in my kids as well.
This year, with Lex’s new found interest in email (not so
old-fashioned) we gave him the choice of writing email thank
you notes or decorating cards to mail. Not surprisingly, he
chose email. It takes him FOREVER to write a message (find the
key he’s looking for, think for awhile, get distracted with
cool stuff on the desk, find another key, etc.) so they are
slow going. The cool thing though is that they are very
heartfelt. After he got those Legos from Dylan and played with
them for awhile, he jumped up and said that we need to write
Dylan a thank you note! So we did. Yesterday, practically all
day, he played with an activity book from Grandma. At one point
I asked if he remembered that it was from Grandma and he said,
“Oh, we should write her a thank you note.” So we did. It’s
taking us awhile to get through them, but it’s probably more
valuable to him this way than if I were to have him color on
cards while I write the notes and send them off all in one
day.