I’m with Gwyneth on this one, good manners cost nothing and it seems a lot of the younger generation fail in that department. Let’s face it I doubt very much if many of our parents bought our generation such kind gifts when buying a house, but had they, I’m sure we would of at the very least bought a thank you card and a bunch of flowers to show our appreciation. As far as I’m concerned it’s no good saying...well this generation are different...yes in some ways they are, they are spoiled, and have bad manners, good manners cost nothing and a “proper” Christmas card with a thank you” for your lovely gift I’m sure wouldn’t have gone amiss or a proper thank you card itself even if they couldn’t afford some flowers! I myself have learned the hard way with my DS ‘the more you do, the more you may’ with this generation I’ve found. I would have a quiet word with your son on the side and let him know you didn’t bring him up to be so self obsessed and a thank you would have been appreciated. I’ve done that with my DS and also although I used to help enormously I’ve learned to only help when absolutely necessary otherwise it’s taken for granted. Yes some people may say you should do it out of the goodness of your own heart and trust me I do when I think it’s warranted but like I said with a lot of this computer mad, iPhone mad spoilt generation I’ve learned that no manners hurts!