A friend recently wrote this piece about the importance of letter-writing. I know that sometimes our kids despair over any kind of writing, and we soft-hearted mothers, who feel like we're torturing our darling children, despair along with them. But don't give up. It will be worth it, I promise you, and they'll someday thank you for the gift you gave them."My mom, even when I was 7, taught me to write letters when things were both worthy of praise, and when they weren't right. I earned my first paycheck at age 8 picking berries outside of Portland. $3.23 for about 2 weeks work and I was elated. I sent away for a toy from a cereal box (we were serial cereal box readers) and it came broken. My mom sat down with me and had me write in my own handwriting to the company to send it back. The company must have liked it, because they sent me the whole SET of these toys. I can't remember a thing about those toys, but it's a story I love to tell my kids, as they never met their stunningly brilliant grandmother."
~Cynthia Fisher Rose
