Monday, February 20, 2012

All about ‘Thank You’ cards

Graduating from high school is only one of many rites of passage that are best marked with ceremony, gifts, and other mementos of the event. Once graduation invitations and announcements have been sent out and the grads have walked across the stage wearing their high school graduation caps and gowns and received proof of their efforts, the gifts from admiring family and friends begin to roll in. As with any occasion for which gifts are given, a response is the courteous thing to do. Graduation thank you cards are an excellent time to reinforce good social skills and to show the budding adult how thank you cards can actually be fun to design and send.

Most children and young adults see these notes as a chore to be avoided. Unfortunately, this leaves the gift giver uncertain about whether their gift was even received and, if so, if it was appreciated. Stressing the importance of this common form of courtesy is an important of your child's upbringing. To encourage them to send graduation thank you cards, use an online service that allows users to create unique stationary with family photographs, custom messages, and personalized color schemes. The grad's notes can even be made to match the invitations sent out earlier.

To make creating sending these notes fun, start by introducing the young grad to an online service with plenty of creative and artistic options to choose from. Parents will also want to find one that offers templates that help provide structure to the card. Ideally, use the same company that created the graduation invitations and announcements. The very best online greeting card companies offer step by step, fill in the blank procedures that help ensure that nothing is forgotten. The young grad can play with different photographs, quotes, color schemes, and other options to create their very own notes unlike any other. You can use the theme of cap and gowns for high school for the thank you cards.

Just as invitations are sent to everyone invited to either the ceremony or the after party, thank you cards are sent to everyone who attended, everyone who gave a gift, and then to everyone who played a part in the grad's success. All too often, young people forget that they had help along the way. They should also be sent to teachers, tutors, coaches, mentors, and parents, who all played a part in the grad's special day. Not only will the graduation thank you cards be greatly appreciated by everyone, but those who contributed to this accomplishment will feel appreciated for their efforts. Creating a list and go over it a couple of times is a simple way to make sure no one is forgotten.

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