Are you aware that our children aren’t being taught to trim their own goose-quill pens? And don’t get me started on the growing number of urban children who lack adequate access to parchment. Here’s a welcome, balanced response to the decreased role that penmanship plays in today’s schools — and in today’s society.
My clients are often stuck in mindsets or stalled in places they know are holding them back. It’s my job to clear the muck and help them work through their resistance. Follow your gut here. Put your energy there. What’s in the way?
Sometimes I have to turn that eye on myself. So is there something in my way here? I hate the idea of cursive going away. Strongly object to it like you can’t believe.
But that would really only be detrimental if I was refusing to learn how to use all the technology afforded me and suggesting my clients live in the past with me.
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Hmmmm. Here in France, they spend a lot of time and energy on handwriting. They learn to write in “attaché”, no printing. Prep starts in Kindergarten, with lots of practice in making loops and swirls, and practice each letter in turn.
Focused attention, fine motor control, patience — all things that, kn average, young boys struggle with more than young girls. I wish my own handwriting was better, but I shifted to typewriting late in grade school, and found it greatly increased my enjoyment and achievement as a budding writer. I’d hate to think what might have happened to my own developing literacy and budding creativity if I had closely associated writing with my own shabby cursive skills.
Without cursive, you cannot sign your name. Without cursive, you cannot read the original Declaration of Independence (although hard to read anyway). There is something to be said for the function of handwriting (antiquated) and the form of handwriting (still needed in my view).