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Oh, please!  How can you forget to thank someone for giving your child a gift for his birthday?  You can't.  Ill-mannered parents, particularly mothers, are the norm today.  I think it was incredible tacky to add the gift certificate part.  Not thanking people for any gift, kindness, etc., is simply bad manners.  Also, you are wrong about it being too late to say thank you.  People spend money for your kid and it is inexcusable not to say thank you and, even worse, not to teach your children to say thank you.  Bad role models make for bratty kids and ill-mannered adults.  Congratulations.[/quote]

Hmm....how can you forget?  Well, my dh works 70 hrs a week and is never home and, I suspect, having an affair.   I have 3 young and very busy kids, 2 of whom likely have adhd.  I have adhd.  I also have a child with a chronic medical condition and mounting debts, and I have a parent w/ Alzheimer's who lives nearby and whose care I am responsible for coordinating, nevermind wanting to spend as much time with as possible before they slip away completely.    Sorry I forgot the note.  but that how.   Thanks, btw, for adding to the stress in my life.  Congratulations.  [/quote]

If you can plan a birthday party, then you have time to make sure your child (or you, if they are too young) writes thank you notes.  Everyone is busy.  I would just put a sticky note on the thank you notes and mail then.  Just apologize for them being late.  No big deal.[/quote]

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