https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:41:47 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893455 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:09:40 +0000 mrskc 893455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOL! I'll make sure my children know how to address an envelope. That is if the post office still exists! </p> <p>@MrsCB: Your comment on checks reminds me of something that happened to me last weekend. I was at a store waiting in line. The woman who was checking out was writing a check meanwhile going on and on about how she doesn't understand why no one uses checks anymore and how cards are unnecessary. Her total was like over $200 so that meant a looooong description of the total. She writes it all out and then looks and goes "oops, what am I doing?" She wrote it out on the "to" line. Argh! She scribbles the whole thing and has to start a new one. All while a huge line is starting to form. I think she answered her own question as to why people don't use checks anymore. Another checker came and I was done before she was even done writing her next check. lol Use your fing debit card next time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893424 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:58:39 +0000 HazelEyes 893424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: Agreed. But, at least in our school, there are plenty of things that checks have to be written for--summer school, field trips... Or a money order. (Which I honestly had no idea how to use until this job). Regardless, at least with mail, you would have to see incoming mail at your house, right? So I always think it shouldn't be completely unfamiliar looking?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893405 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:53:17 +0000 Mrs. Pen 893405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: not everyone does, but most of us do. We all wrote thanks you's for our bridal showers, wedding, baby showers, birthdays; and I wrote thank you's to everyone who came to J's birthday and also all the people who sent gifts or cards. I wouldn't say they're formal- but they're hand written! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893402 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:52:00 +0000 ShootingStar 893402@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HazelEyes: I would be happy if I never had to write another check again for the rest of my life. I hate them, and don't even have any. I think everything should be electronic and the check needs to go the way of the dodo bird. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893399 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:50:45 +0000 ShootingStar 893399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: LOL, I don't have much cultural affiliations except "American" and it's a foreign concept to me! Except for weddings and showers, when people suddenly become very conscious of etiquette. </p> <p>@Mrs. Pen: So you, your parents, and your siblings/siblings-in-law all write formal thank you's for birthday gifts to each other? I am way too lazy for that :-P. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893369 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:40:16 +0000 HazelEyes 893369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, I work in a high school and this happens All. The. Time. Seniors have to send transcripts and scholarship applications. It is so sad. This and they never know how to write a check. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893365 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:38:28 +0000 Mrs. Pen 893365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: we do it for birthdays, gifts, etc. we never did it for Christmas.</p> <p>My SIL is soooo proper and knows all the rules of etiquette. She sends a TY for EVERYTHING. She sent me a TY card for going out to lunch with her once!</p> <p>I think it's a nice gesture! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893355 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:36:32 +0000 regberadaisy 893355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsCB: agree. In my culture it's not common to write thank you notes. It's a foreign/American concept to me.</p> <p>I think for birthdays we would do the TY card if the USPS is still around. For everything else? The people who will gift them will kinda be there to personally thank or I think a phone call is more apt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893345 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:34:46 +0000 ShootingStar 893345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For those of you who say your kids will grow up writing thank you notes - who are they going to write them to? Formal thank you's to grandparents for christmas/b-day presents? Do the people you intend to send them to you send thank you's to you already? For example, if it's your parents, are you all writing each other thank you's after Christmas?</p> <p>I've just never done this except for our wedding. Growing up I was expected to call my grandparents and thank them for gifts, but never actually wrote anything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893340 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:33:17 +0000 mrs. 64 893340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's bad. My second graders have to learn to write friendly letters and address envelopes (including stamps). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893330 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:31:13 +0000 Mrs. Pen 893330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hahah OMG I have such a hard time believing this!</p> <p>I had pen pals as a kid and of course there are birthday cards and thank you notes. J will definitely know this life skill lol</p> <p>Oh I also plan to be intentional about hand writing! Penmanship is a lost art. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893327 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:30:24 +0000 Shutterbug 893327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha I feel this way about writing checks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893319 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:28:08 +0000 regberadaisy 893319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Honestly I'm wondering when our kids are older if the Post Office will even still be around! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893310 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:24:16 +0000 Bookish 893310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha, well, I'm going to be that parent making my kid write thank you notes, so she'll know how to mail em! I still find it surprising that out of my 6 nieces/nephews, I have never gotten a single thank you note, either emailed or mailed! Are they just not taught anymore? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893278 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:16:33 +0000 ShootingStar 893278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ha, this is so going to be my kids. I hate mail, hate the paper waste it incurs, and much prefer everything to be electronic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893267 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:13:36 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 893267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man. </p> <p>My industry depends on mail and letters!</p> <p>I'm going to start a campaign to save the handwritten letter!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893197 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:48:54 +0000 BSB 893197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Grace: That is true! Guess he didn't bother to notice. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-893194 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:47:28 +0000 Alivoo01 893194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man... No bueno!!</p> <p>In elementary school, we had a day dedicated to learning about the post office/mailing mail! We would write a letter to our parents, learn to address the envelope, then we'd hop on the bus and go to the post office, stand in line to purchase a stamp, put the stamp on, then drop it off in the mailbox. Then we toured the facility learning how they sort mail, etc. It was so cool! </p> <p>While email and texting is so much easier than calling/writing a letter. I still enjoy mailing out invitaions and thank you cards. There's just something so much more sentimental about a hand written letter/card; and getting something in the mail that's not a bill or junk mail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-892641 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:59:47 +0000 Grace 892641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So weird. He obviously never receives mail either. How can he have gone through that much of life and never noticed how Aunt Ida's birthday cards came? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-892612 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:48:03 +0000 lomom 892612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My brother is 24 and has no clue. He mailed me a check for a present we'd gone in on together and he didn't put his address or a stamp, just my address. Shockingly, it made it to me and the postman hit me up for the cost of the stamp lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-892474 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:39:53 +0000 Dandelion 892474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS does...he and my niece correspond quite often. He also sees me write letters and understands the concepts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891771 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:44:44 +0000 dagret 891771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's pretty funny but he should have been making his son write thank you notes a long time ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891758 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:41:09 +0000 Raindrop 891758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Polish: Haha! ^_^</p> <p>I'm the only one out of my friends that actually mail our invites anymore... most people do evites or something. Most of my friends evited their wedding also.... So weird!</p> <p>I really like getting something other than junk in the mail, which is why I think I like mailing things out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891737 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:36:02 +0000 PointeShoesTutus 891737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh boy. That's bad but I did laugh my way through the dad's story. </p> <p>My future kiddos will learn to send thank you cards-not emails-as soon as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891720 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:32:20 +0000 avivoca 891720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh dear. I will definitely make sure my kids know how to write and send a letter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891707 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:29:03 +0000 mediagirl 891707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh dear. Yes, she will be sending letters (specifically thank you notes) as soon as she can write!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891696 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:27:35 +0000 BSB 891696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Polish: Haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891691 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:26:33 +0000 Mrs. Polish 891691@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mailed out invitations to a party last summer and dh asked me if I licked all the stamps. He had no idea that they have been stickers for quite some time. I think if it were serious enough he could mail something, but I'm pretty sure he would ask someone to do it for him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/my-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#post-891596 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:13:14 +0000 BSB 891596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p><a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/05/27/my-teenage-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#awesm=~oa10yPtSDxXdWs" rel="nofollow">http://readwrite.com/2013/05/27/my-teenage-son-does-not-know-how-to-mail-a-letter#awesm=~oa10yPtSDxXdWs</a></p> <p>I saw this today. LOL!! </p> <p>Told the DH we need to make sure our kids know how to do this. </p>