I was so surprised when .....

That is a lovely surprise to get and I believe thank you emails or letters should always be sent, sadly they are not always.

he obviously loves you..

We sent out Advent Calendars (no chocolate) to 7 grandchildren and got 6 whatsapps. Wolfie is too young.

All four of our grandchildren send me thank you messages for Christmas and birthday presents which I appreciate. They are aged 7, 13, 15 and 19.

We taught our children to always send a thank you card for any presents given to them and they have carried on the tradition with their own children.

Five of mine have never, ever sent me a 'thank-you' and I think its very rude. One of them does, he's my daughter's child - but none of the others have ever written a single syllable.
I did mention it to one of my sons and he said modern belief is in teaching children to be truthful, and by encouraging them to say how much they enjoyed the (carefully chosen) gifts, even if they hadn't enjoyed them, was teaching them to tell untruths!
When I got over this rudeness I vowed to send money in future. Its not the kids fault after all.
So I now wait 10 days or so then message and ASK if the money had arrived safely.

I don't give things with the expectation of a thankyou, but I usually see them Christmas and birthdays so they thankyou to my face. Sometimes I even get a hug!

Weve only ever had one thank you acknowledgement. Dd does complain re having to collect parcels if we send - so ive stopped that. Now dd complains if we send actual cash - “no shops accept cash here”. How do these teenagers ever learn about actual money? Quite honestly the way I feel im not bothering to send them anything.

How lovely 😊

I'm very lucky that my daughter always encourages the GC to write thankyou notes, birthday cards, also Christmas cards and they add their names to my daughter's mother's day cards to me. These are so special. The GC are still in primary school, I'm sure they will understand the importance of this when they are older.

I used to find sending thank you notes an absolute chore when I was a child.

Of course I was grateful, but the sitting down and writing that I was, felt like a school lesson.

kittylester

We sent out Advent Calendars (no chocolate) to 7 grandchildren and got 6 whatsapps. Wolfie is too young.

Is Wolfie his real name?

MissAdventure

I used to find sending thank you notes an absolute chore when I was a child.

Of course I was grateful, but the sitting down and writing that I was, felt like a school lesson.

I liked doing it if I had new pretty writing paper 😃

Ah, I liked the rubber stamp thingy, so I could play post offices.
I should have had one saying "thanks very much" and stamped that on my paper.

😄 lazybones

Cruel, but true.

pascal30

he obviously loves you..

He obviously has good parents!

Oh dear me, what a horrible child you were. People go to a lot of trouble to buy gifts and send money; I do I'm a pensioner on a fixed income. Everyone who receives a gift from me is far better off than I and they know it.

I have five grandchildren ages 23 , 21, 4, 3 and 18 months , all of them thank us for their birthday presents, my sons are the youngest grandchildren and they draw us a picture with thank you kisses and the 4 year old comes round and thanks us, my eldest grandchildren phone We see all of them on Christmas day so they thank us then for Christmas gifts and they all give me the best hugs .

Oreo, sorry, I have only just seen this question. Yes, it's his real name.

Oreo

MissAdventure

I used to find sending thank you notes an absolute chore when I was a child.

Of course I was grateful, but the sitting down and writing that I was, felt like a school lesson.

I liked doing it if I had new pretty writing paper 😃

Father Christmas always brought a stationer et so I could write all my thank you letters.

Even though I see the DGD and they say thank you in person, they still send a thank you card.
DGS will phone now to say thanks.

kittylester

*Oreo*, sorry, I have only just seen this question. Yes, it's his real name.

Same as Princess Beatrice’s stepson isn’t it?

Yes, I think so. It's not uncommon now.

stationer et stationery set

Wolfie is a great name

My grandchildren are with us on Christmas Day so thank us then.

However our charming little granddaughter takes photos of her and her sister playing with the gifts and sends them on WhatsApp which is lovely.

Our teenage grandson will always pose by the LEGO he's done and send us a WhatsApp.

We don't get any handwritten notes but quite happy with the way things are.