Thank-you notes take a lot of work. Many parents have to practically tie their children down and force them to write thank-yous to friends and relatives for gifts or for cards or for going on a trip. Most kids hate this task -- to them, more of a chore. Even grown children like to avoid writing thank-you notes. They feel so cliché: "Dear so-and-so, thank you for so-and-so, love, so-and-so." The notes are never long enough to fill up all the space on the card, and then the whole thing looks pathetic, like the writer isn't really thankful.
