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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How painfully tedious. No one wants to endure this nightmare.  At our house we open 4 gifts a day and write thank you cards along the way. DH and I opened our wedding gifts this way too. More enjoyable than a gift opening frenzy imho.  [/quote]

This is exactly what we do. DD is six, and she knows our tradition is to open 3-4 a day, and to write the thank you note immediately after we open each one. This way, she thinks about the gift and the giver, plays with the gift etc. before moving on to the next one.

We've found it stops the frenzy where everything blends together for her. She also remembers long-term who got her what, which is sweet when she later refers to  "the game Myles got for me" or "the bead set from Eva."  This is our third year doing this, and it's amazing that she really remembers who got her what in a nice way.

AND she's involved in the thank you notes, both in that she has to delay opening the next present until we write the thank you note, and in that she has a hand in writing them. At age four, she put stickers on each envelope to personalize it. At age five, she signed her name on each. This year, she wrote a simple first sentence and I added some other sentences with details about the specific gift.

This is one of the reasons we open presents privately at home after the party. I'd hate for DD to wiz through the opening process and not have time to appreciate the gifts or her friends.  [/quote]

My kids open the presents during the party and have no difficulty appreciating the gift or remembering who gave what. It seems it comes down to the child. It sounds like your daughter needs slow input of information with lots of time to process in order to remember. If I had a child with similar cognitive abilities, I would still open during the party but I would be sure to write down every gift then we could go over it repeatedly and practice who gave what until they got it. [/quote]

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