It can be a great opportunity for teaching gratitude, but should kids be expected to write thank you notes for all their gifts? We asked Michele Borba, Ed.D., parenting expert and author of several ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...