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At this time we can start having your child work on their handwriting. Handwriting is
very, very important. As you know most adults as they get older or most children, their
handwriting starts to deteriorate as they worry about speed. The better their handwriting
is when they're younger the more they'll maintain a legible writing and God forbid they become
doctors, you won't have to worry about some of those problems. But in any case, as your
child goes throughout their schooling and learns things, you want them to write clearly.
If they do go to a regular school it will be far more impressive to their teacher, it
will be far more impressive when it's hung on the wall and it just makes other people
reading their work that much more enjoyable. And it also helps them from developing poor
writing skills to the point where you can't even tell what letter they're trying to form.
If you try to do just like with numbers, if you try to do a number 5 too fast and you
don't write it correctly like that, it'll end up looking like an S when you're going
fast. Same way with letters, so start out with your capital letters as they're nice
and big and your children when they're younger they have gross motor skills which means it's
easier for them to do big motions than small. So start out with the capital letters and
you can include a capital and a lowercase together, but make sure they do correct movements.
Make sure, when I wrote that b, I first went down and then I came up to make the circle
part. I didn't go up first, I didn't do something that might be easier. To find out the complete
alphabet, the correct strokes, you can look online, you can buy a chart at the store.
If you remember from your own handwriting, the correct way to do it then you're fine.
But make sure that it's consistent and that everyday you're teaching them the same strokes,
don't let them get away once with writing a t by going up for the first line instead
of down for the first line and then across because it will turn into a bad habit. Also
developing good habits with writing, it'll help them to write faster. Once their brain
locks in that, you're always using the same strokes over and over again. Then they're
able to write faster and more legibly. So I would say have them write the full alphabet,
uppercase and lowercase either together or separate, however you would like at least
once a day.