Thank you note for taking care of your parent for the day is always appreciated. If you’ve ever had a parent call or text you on the phone and your first thought was “I don’t know what to write in this”, now you know.
This is a common request because parents are often overwhelmed with texts and phone calls from their kids, and have to put everything on hold until they can get their message to you. It sucks because it takes the stress away from them and makes it more manageable for them to actually deal with the problem.
Not all parents are in this boat. For all people who have parents who are super busy, there is always a way to contact them. A thank you note might be the best way to say “how are you doing today, and can I help you with something?”, or even better, a link might be the best way to email them so they can reply.
Like any relationship, when we talk about parents we’re talking about all of them. So the best way to make sure that you’re included in the conversation is to let them know that you are. The best way to do this is to send a thank you note. A good thank you note will get parents to take a look at themselves and see if they need any help. This is the same reason why you don’t want your kids to start dating in high school.
Thank you notes are a great way to make sure you get your point across, and parents are generally pretty familiar with this method so they’ll be more open to reading your note.
I have been pretty proactive in sending thank you notes to parents, but I do it in a slightly different way than the norm. Instead of just sending a link to my website, I take the time to write a very personal, thoughtful note, saying “Thank you so much for taking care of me”. For example, I sent a note to my parents after my mother-in-law died.
My parents have been pretty open to receiving this kind of note, but they have really been the only ones. I remember my mother-in-law saying it was nice to hear from me, but she also said it was nice to hear from other members of the family. For my parents, the message is that the world needs to be more aware of what they are doing to each other. They are both aware that I am doing something wrong, but they aren’t happy about it.
In the past, I have received some nasty emails saying that I have bad intentions toward my parents, but in many cases they are also saying that I have bad intentions towards them. In either case, the message is that I should have spent more time being nice to them instead. As we have learned in life, sometimes you need to put the hurt on the other person to get the hurt to stop.
In many cases this is actually the best thing that you can do for your friends. You can show them that they are wrong and make it okay to be wrong, or you can show them that you have a different plan for them and your parents. But in the end, regardless of what you do or don’t say, you need to take care of yourself first.
That’s why I make parenting a top priority in my life. I can’t imagine a time when I wouldn’t have had my own children to take care of. But what I can say is that I have had to put the hurt on my parents to get the hurt to stop. I have put my parents in a time loop that has kept them in their place and prevented them from being a part of my life. They are now my parents without the pain, but in a different place.