You'll be more likely to write a thank you note if you do it soon after receiving a gift or an act of kindness. The general expectation is between one day and two weeks after opening a gift.

Some parents still find thank-you notes important, while others don't. Parenting experts say teaching kids to express ...

According to Swann, it’s good practice to write a thank-you note within one week and, if possible, within three days."But being late is always better than never sending one at all," she tells ...

Founder, career coach and interview coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. My goal is simple: to help people find jobs they LOVE. Thank you notes are an important yet often underestimated component of ...

I had taught my son the importance of writing thank-you notes, but he wasn’t doing a very good job of completing the process. I cut out the letter from your column and sent it to him. Boy, what ...

Early on, my mom bought my sister and me our own boxes of stationery, and instructed us in the art of saying thank you. (Think: name the kindness expressed to you, how it made you feel, and why it ...

End-of-year thank-you notes, though, aren’t written out of obligation. Those who get them are reminded unexpectedly that someone is thinking of them—and that their actions haven’t gone ...

We asked 122 kids in the fourth and fifth grades if they had ever written a thank-you note on their own without being asked. Here are our results: Yes: 58. No: 64.