Yahoo

My kids stopped being appreciative of gifts. Now I make them write thank-you notes before they can use them.

The author always wrote thank-you notes as a child, and is making her kids (not pictured) do the same.Peter Dazeley/Getty Images I grew up being told the importance of writing thank-you notes. My ...
Business Insider

I'm no longer writing thank-you notes, and I'm not making my kids do it, either

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WKBW

'Thank you for your service': WNY children writing letters to local veterans at Festival of the Lights

HAMBURG, N.Y. (WKBW) — Many children kicked off the holiday season writing letters to local veterans at the Hamburg Fairgrounds Festival of the Lights. Parents, Emily Matesic and Kate Harris, say this ...
USA Today

How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
Kaleido Scope

Could texting and autocorrect affect kids’ writing skills?

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...