Growing up, whenever I would go to a friend’s house, my mother would tell me, “Make sure you say thank you.” If I was fed a meal, I was told to say thank you. If I was given a gift, I was told to say thank you. Regardless of what I was doing, every time I came home from a friend’s house, my mother would ask, “Did you say thank you today?” Learning to say “thank you” was so impressed upon me as a child; it became something that I said often because I knew it was the right response. But there is…
