Do you remind your adult children about sending cards ?

Thanks foe your responses - the thing I think I can’t tolerate is that I do send cards where I want to and I send messages and am very good at it - and have also decided, as an adult, who I’ll send them to - so to have her doing this is very irritating…….most things now I simply nod and wave and do the ‘mmm’ , ‘yes I know’. But this is that ‘thing’ that totally winds me up and I can’t reason with it !!!!

No I don’t remind any of them although birthday plans may be discussed I certainly don’t tell them to send cards.

Hetty58 I do not agree that sending someone a card is a waste of time or utterly useless.

I have 5 adult sons. I send them a reminder for family birthdays and they send each other greetings - not cards but texts or facebook. I fear they would forget without a reminder!

Whitewavemark2, more than mildly irritating, infuriating, in fact - when you're constantly told to do things their way - the only right and proper way - and you know, for sure - that they're talking b****cks!

I’m in my late 70s - mum died a couple of years ago, but still reminded me. I very occasionally remind one of my children but mostly don’t.

Mildly irritating I know but hey Ho, in the scheme of things it is a small matter.

My mother loved a 'nice card' (good quality) - and somehow attached great meaning to receiving one - so they were duly sent to her, begrudgingly, but not to other family members.

I send a text or email and never send cards now. What a waste of time and resources, how horribly environmentally unfriendly - and how utterly useless?

She's doing what a lot of us do, reminding the family about sending cards etc as they matter to her. Afraid you being in your 50's won't alter that. If you are like a lot of people now, don't want to send cards just tell her. Get it over and done with. You can't can't blame the post you just do it earlier and they would get there. My mother told me nearly every week that my way of making gravy was not as she did, in the end I told her I preferred my way and that's why I did it line that, the injured silence made me regret it. These things niggle, but she was a wonderful mom and I wish she were still here.