To remind you to thank people for gifts!!

[SmartyFace]

My young children have recently started being invited to parties and it really annoys me when there is no thank-you for the gift! Two of my DC are twins, and I always make sure to get a nice gift from each of them. On one recent occasion I even had something personalised with the child's name on. I saw the mum about 10 days later, and even in conversation the gifts were not mentioned. It's so rude!! A quick text is not that difficult, is it? Obviously I don't buy gifts because I want to be thanked, but I'd be absolutely mortified if I realised I hadn't thanked somebody for something they'd taken the time to buy for me or my child.

Anyway, I know I'm not being unreasonable. I just wanted to say that if this is you, it's bloody rude!

My daughter is in Year 3, for the past two years when she's had parties she has sent a handwritten thank you note/card to each child - personalised to reflect which gift they bought her. I think it's important to teach children to say thank you when people have put time and effort into getting them a gift. When she's been to other parties and given gifts there have been occasions where no thanks has been expressed at all and others where the parents sends out a blanket Whatspp message to all parents to thank them for the presents.

My Gds had the whole class plus several other friends to his party the other day. There’s no way there’d be any thank you other than verbal on the day!

I don’t mind so much for big school class parties but it used to really bother me (and still does) when it was my DH family’s children. Never a single thank you. And half the time they did nothing for our dc birthday.