Would You Teach Your Child To Write In Cursive?

[domnortheast]

 

I don't know....I was wandering around the pen show and this cute blonde (aka my daughter) suggested I buy it. It was much cheaper than the Nakaya she tried to encourage me to purchase (which was so far outside of my pen budget it was laughable).

 

[HollyGolightly]

 

I don't know....I was wandering around the pen show and this cute blonde (aka my daughter) suggested I buy it. It was much cheaper than the Nakaya she tried to encourage me to purchase (which was so far outside of my pen budget it was laughable).

I like your daughter's style!

[amberleadavis]

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I like your daughter's style!

 

 

Thank you!

 

She had great success at the Pen Show!

 

For $12 each she bought Pilot Petits with nibs tuned by Michael Masuyama and they even had extra cartridges and silk cases. She saved a vendor's ipod and he gave her a Kara's Kustom Ink (in black) and she joined the Black Pen Society. She found a vintage Carters with a gold nib restored for $40 and she took her $20 (since she persuaded me to buy her other pens) and bought me a vintage Sheaffer's that said "I Love You." So, when she said we should get this for "her brothers" I was totally out manipulated.

[abstract49]

I have a kindergartener. Now that she is writing, we are working to improve her penmanship. Cursive will likely follow.

 

We need to really rethink only teaching children what some authority figure or curriculum setter thinks is important. Along that path lies conformity and philistinism.

 

The point of education is not getting your kids just smart enough to work the machines and fill out the paperwork but still too dumb to question the system (to channel George Carlin). And having only rudimentary communication skills keeps people in their place. The cursive discussion fits into that larger topic.

 

This makes me wish there were a "Like" button in this forum! Says a lot about our society, and says it very well.

[domnortheast]

 

This makes me wish there were a "Like" button in this forum! Says a lot about our society, and says it very well.

+1 to the original post and to the need for a 'Like' button.

[Green Onion]

I'm a college student, so I take a lot of notes. My cursive in English is actually fairly neat (so I've been told at any rate), but I use this mix of print and cursive (cursive print? ) because that's what comes most naturally and it actually ends up neater that way, at least to my eyes.

 

One weird mix of technology and the 'old school' way of doing things that I've been doing in some of my classes that allow it is using my tablet-computer (a Surface Pro 3), which comes with a pen, to take hand-written notes on my computer. I think hand-writing notes is best for retention but having them on my computer means I can convert them to typed text (which works fairly well, there's hope for my handwriting yet!) and carry them around with me on my smartphone. The best of both worlds!

[domnortheast]

I'm a college student, so I take a lot of notes. My cursive in English is actually fairly neat (so I've been told at any rate), but I use this mix of print and cursive (cursive print? ) because that's what comes most naturally and it actually ends up neater that way, at least to my eyes.

 

One weird mix of technology and the 'old school' way of doing things that I've been doing in some of my classes that allow it is using my tablet-computer (a Surface Pro 3), which comes with a pen, to take hand-written notes on my computer. I think hand-writing notes is best for retention but having them on my computer means I can convert them to typed text (which works fairly well, there's hope for my handwriting yet!) and carry them around with me on my smartphone. The best of both worlds!

 

[sharon888]

I volunteered to give out information about CursiveLogic, a system to teach cursive handwriting, at the LA Pen Show. It's a Kickstarter project. It met its goal yesterday, which was very exciting. Doug Lane at Modern Stationer tried it out to get his six-year-old son started with cursive.

 

http://www.modernstationer.com/blog/2015/2/18/hands-on-with-cursivelogic

[TSherbs]

I'm a college student, so I take a lot of notes. My cursive in English is actually fairly neat (so I've been told at any rate), but I use this mix of print and cursive (cursive print? ) because that's what comes most naturally and it actually ends up neater that way, at least to my eyes.

 

One weird mix of technology and the 'old school' way of doing things that I've been doing in some of my classes that allow it is using my tablet-computer (a Surface Pro 3), which comes with a pen, to take hand-written notes on my computer. I think hand-writing notes is best for retention but having them on my computer means I can convert them to typed text (which works fairly well, there's hope for my handwriting yet!) and carry them around with me on my smartphone. The best of both worlds!

very cool

[TSherbs]

I've never used them either, but I'm glad now that I was taught them, more because I think there is value in the process of learning to learn a thing; the thinking, the perseverance, determination...the blood sweat and tears of learning. I think the same with the undergraduate degree process, it is more about learning how to research and report and if the chosen subject happens to be interesting to the student as well then that is a bonus. What do you think?

 

I look forward to reading about it. Is it an old or new book / method?

learning to learn is, indeed, very important. No one questions this.

[SockAddict]

[amberleadavis]

So, it was $35 and it was the student edition of the American Cursive Handwriting Self Study Workbook by Michael and Debra Sull.

[domnortheast]

This one then?

 

 

http://www.fountainpenhospital.com/images/accessories_images/books/250PX/BO-48.jpg

American Cursive Handwriting

Michael & Debra Sull

A comprehensive self-study workbook and curriculum for teacher, student, parent and child. Your handwriting should reflect the best of you and this guide will allow you to do just that. Over 300 pages including practice sheets. 8 ½” x 11”, Spiral Bound

[amberleadavis]

The one I bought wasn't spiral bound - it was 3 hole punched and the cover is black only and it is 349 pages. Mr. Sull recommended copying the worksheets and suggested that is why he used this format.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2015-Pens/20150219_125749.jpg

[amberleadavis]

So, I've been trying to research handwriting for kids; my 9-yr old son's handwriting is abysmal, no cursive in school, & I'm thinking of starting him with italic/cursive italic. Amberleadavis, you mentioned Getty Dubay -- did that eventually work for your child?

 

 

Nope, we are back at Palmer and Sull. Sull is winning out and I've shared the book.

[Scriptorium Pens]

I have several friends and relatives who are teaching their kids and grandkids to write cursive because it isn't taught in school. One friend has her grandkids for the summer and has them use fountain pens to practice writing every day! Another friend is teaching her grandkids calligraphy.

[dadbar]

Cursive writing is the new Latin.

 

My kids both have horrible handwriting. They are hopeless. I would never feign to teach them script at this point.

 

The only hope is teaching it to my granddaughter.

[amberleadavis]

My middle son is autistic and his print was horrid. Since we started with Sull for cursive, teachers are complimenting his printing. --- Before the sizing and spacing was so inconsistent as to be nearly unreadable, but since practicing cursive, his print has become quite nice.

[rwilsonedn]

My middle son is autistic and his print was horrid. Since we started with Sull for cursive, teachers are complimenting his printing. --- Before the sizing and spacing was so inconsistent as to be nearly unreadable, but since practicing cursive, his print has become quite nice.

 

That sounds like a real breakthrough, maybe on a number of fronts!

Congratulations.

ron

[amberleadavis]

Thank you, Ron. It's really neat to hear him get compliments on his print. He just beams.