Thursday, 19 November 2009 at 17:34
When Dude was turning 'school age' I decided to 'get serious' about his handwriting. I made him write every day, we did handwriting sheets and we made him write the answers to all sorts of other work.
In short I followed traditional methods to make sure my kid's handwriting would be better than mine.
The end result is now 3 years later he still has some sort of chicken scratch and he HATES writing (though he did hate it 3 years ago to so no guarantee the hatred is my fault.) I don't think that was helpful.
With the next two kids I decided not to pressure the writing, sure we occasionally write things down, but I don't tend to pester. The b's are sometimes d's, the Ps never turn into p's. And yes she still writes the J backwards in her name half the time. But she likes to write, and does more of it than Dude.
Now maybe it is cause she is a girl. Or not, today Little man was copying the names of all the jedi characters out of a book. Intentionally writing, and not doing a half bad job of it. I can at least tell the Leia from the Luke, and the C3PO from the R2D2. And for once he is not writing the words on top of each other.
Maybe this non pestering will turn out better hand writing...time will tell, at the worst I am nearly certain they will all learn to type. (unless voice recognition software hits Asimov expected quality)
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