Birthday Presents

[Doyouneedthetoilet]

I was wondering when doing Thank you cards for birthday presents whether you need to say "Thank you so much for xxxx. Child's name really likes it". Or could you just say "Thank you so much for the present, child's name really likes it".

Both are acceptable

Usually I would name the gift as it shows you know what you bought them rather than just say present.

If thanking on behalf of a child where the child is too young to write I may even write/sign as if they wrote it and as they get older they write their name at the bottom until they can write it themselves. Now my youngest is 17 I do now let him email or text a thanks!

An extra touch is to say what the present is, as in ‘thanks so much for the colouring book, Johnny has been at it all morning!’ Or ‘thank you for the t shirt, Johnny’s looking forward to wearing it’. Makes it a bit more personal.

It’s wife work. When I realised there was no way my DH or anyone else’s was going to spend an evening sorting thank you notes out I stopped too. It’s liberating.

Yes as soon as mine could write they did their own thank you cards.

Fantasia it’s human decency work. When someone called me four months after I sent her kids gifts abroad for Xmas and she said ‘I know you sent something but I can’t remember what it was, but thanks’ I never got them anything again.

We say thank you for our gifts and we mean it and we wouldn’t lose track like your friend. But it is wife work to spend an evening writing out notes after class parties as no man does it.

I’m 26 and I still hand write thank you cards... I think it’s better to name the gift and like previous posts have said to comment on it eg ‘thanks for the t shirt, purple is child’s favourite colour’ or ‘thanks for the book, looking forward to story time!’ But also if you have loads and loads to write and you cba...fair play, ‘thanks for the gift, it was so thoughtful/kind, child loves it’ will suffice!

Definitely name the gift and, if possible, something relevant to it - Ie thank you for the dvd, Emma has really enjoyed watching it and singing along.