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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 more 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, it 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 five 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 because 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. Start out with the capital letters
and you can include the capital and the lower case 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 the correct way to do it then you're fine but
make sure that it's consistent and every day 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 and also developing
good habits with writing, it will help them to write faster. Once their brain locks in
that they'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, upper case
and lower case either together or separate, however you like, at least once a day.