Children should know to say thank you (profusely) to every parent, child, aunt, and uncle who gives them something. But kids can’t know how blessed they are unless they have a basis for comparison.

Why you can’t teach a 6-year-old to be thankful for her comfortable life For a long time, whether I was the one uttering this line to my kids or the receiver of a child’s resulting thank-you ...

I realized that I've always written thank-you notes from a place of guilt. I recently decided to stop writing them, and I'm not making my kids write them, either. We express our gratitude in other ...

While most of us were raised to write thank-you notes promptly, it seems some of us haven’t passed that bit of etiquette onto our kids. Philip Galanes, New York Times columnist and author of ...

If I’d had to guess, I would have told you pre-motherhood that I would be the type of parent who would be a stickler for having her kid send thank you cards after receiving birthday or holiday ...

It's an obligation that I'd previously pushed on my two kids, but I'm now rethinking this tradition. By the time I'm writing my thank-you note, I've said thank you a least a couple of times ...