by HappinessStan » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:26 pm
I can't see anything wrong with an activity which mainly involves thinking of nice things to say to other people in a concise and clear way. I would recommend it to anyone simply as writing practice, or to help with shyness, or even as practice for writing essays. I have a thirteen year old son, and I certainly wouldn't think that he was too young to take up the hobby if he wanted to (he tends to ask me to do it for him!)
I asked a famous British comedian for his autograph when we met him in a cafe when I was nine, I've dropped in and out of the hobby ever since. I wish that I had started writing to people when I was thirteen, a very large number of people I would like to have written to are no longer with us, although before the internet it was a lot harder to find addresses!
On the other question, I would definitely send stamps rather than cash, and if you do send cash then make it a note rather than coins. Make the envelope look unexciting as well, if your letter passes through the hand of a dishonest postie they are more likely to target something that looks like a birthday card than a letter inviting someone to purchase new window frames.
I can't see anything wrong with an activity which mainly involves thinking of nice things to say to other people in a concise and clear way. I would recommend it to anyone simply as writing practice, or to help with shyness, or even as practice for writing essays. I have a thirteen year old son, and I certainly wouldn't think that he was too young to take up the hobby if he wanted to (he tends to ask me to do it for him!)
I asked a famous British comedian for his autograph when we met him in a cafe when I was nine, I've dropped in and out of the hobby ever since. I wish that I had started writing to people when I was thirteen, a very large number of people I would like to have written to are no longer with us, although before the internet it was a lot harder to find addresses!
On the other question, I would definitely send stamps rather than cash, and if you do send cash then make it a note rather than coins. Make the envelope look unexciting as well, if your letter passes through the hand of a dishonest postie they are more likely to target something that looks like a birthday card than a letter inviting someone to purchase new window frames.
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