Help please - dd2 (8) has 12 thank you letters to write, and I know she'll never manage it

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Does anyone know of anything downloadable that can be personalised and that's not too tacky? TIA

do them on the computer (on word or similar) and she can writein the personal parts when they are printed

something like this?

Just do a border on the PC and add a photo of her and "Thank you for my present" in pretty letters and get her to sign it.

just write thankyou very much for my present from xxx

she doesn't have to do them all at once

or you write them, she signs then

or don't bother

this looks like a fab site. I'm going to add this one to my favourites to use later. Lots of choice on here.

No, do bother - it's important if someone has sent something. Or they won't bother next year.

I don't send written thank you notes if the person was here when they opened the present but if they send it or a cheque in the post it's important to call or write. IMO!

Yep I type a letter on the PC, and get ds just to write in the name after "Dear", what the preesie was after "Thank you for my ..", and sign the bottom.

We have done this now for 3 years (he's 8 now), I think she should manage if you ask her to do 3 or 4 at a time.

I felt really bad when I discovered some under a pile of stuff on my desk when I had forgotten to post them 3 months after Christmas

Get your dd an eamil account set up then you can do the thankyou letters via email. That's what we do now as everyone we get presents from has an email address.All she has to learn is the copy and paste function!

oh well thats just something else to put on the list of things to make me feel like a piece of shit

Don't take it personally TR, I assume you were aiming that at me. But honestly if you sent someone a gift or a cheque and they didn't drop you a line to say they'd received it and thanking you you'd be on here saying you were pissed off.

I wouldn't.
I assume people are grateful.
I would assume they have forgotten, not that they are being rude or ungrateful.

I hope other people feel the same as me because I forge everything( even nephews b day, wouldn't be able to find a pen to write a thankyou note, would never have managed to note down who sent what in the firstplace and if we ever did manage all that they weould get forgotten to be posted.

The great aunties that send my children a fiver for their birthdays and a distant cousin of my Nan's that has never met me, never mind my children, also sends them a fiver each birthday and Christmas. I'm sure they are glad that I send a wee note with a photo and a thank you. It means alot to their generation especially.

None of this is an effort to make you feel like shit. You do what you want and I'll do want I want. It's not a problem.

I'd just telephone or send an e-mail myself - why should children have to write letters when adults rarely do?

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"why should children have to write letters when adults rarely do"

Because if someone has been arsed taken the trouble to send your child a present, then the least you and your child can do is take the trouble to show gratitude.

And because it's good manners.

I assume it's also OK for your child to let door slam in people's faces, push past adults in corridors or on the stairs.

Part of the problem with today's society is that peopled have forgotten to show little considerations to each other, so we all feel so taken-for-granted.

Actually, no, clumsymum. My point was that there are other ways of showing gratitude - I'd far rather be telephoned warmly than receive a stiff little note that a child's obviously been forced to write.

oh horrors - thank you letters, scourge of my childhood. my birthday is just after christmas too so i had a bumper crop to do. my mum used to get them all done and sent by about july .

why not a card or little notelet with thank you for my present, as trinityrhino suggested? not keen on the ones where the blanks are filled in, bit too formulaic and wouldn't make the person feel particuarly special or appreciated.