If your child received money or a gift card, say what he or she plans ... about a mother who used to require her kids to write thank you notes before they could wear the new outfit or play with ...

Miss Manners does not want to discourage letters of thanks, which are in short supply. If hosts want to write to thank their ...

Growing up in the South in the '60s, I was taught from an early age that sending a handwritten thank-you ... the notes in question were not your typical “thanks for the Amazon gift card.” ...