Valentine’s Day blues- anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Filing in the To and From fields for 20 kids is an agonizing task for my 9 yo. He had occupational therapy today, and I brought the Valentines to occupational therapy and asked that this be the activity. They had an hour to work on it and they got through seven. And the seven look like $hit. Several of the names are spelled wrong and the writing is so terrible that I’m afraid to have him even hand them out because someone might make fun of why he writes like that.

He said several of the boys in his class are not doing Valentines this year. Should I just scrap it?

It sounds like he's fine and he had good handwriting practice. You're stressed because it looks bad? That's a you problem. No one is going to make fun of him. Our kids got tons of valentines with terrible handwriting and letters backwards at that age. They never noticed good handwriting or bad handwriting. They were just looking for the candy or treat or if someone wrote a special message.

[Anonymous]

I always help my dd w/asd do this task. I would not worry at all about how the writing looks-kids don't care, they just care that they got the valentine.

This year, I wrote the first names, dd signed her name and we assembled the cards together (they had pencils or stickers as goodies). I don't expect her to do this whole task herself-I helped my NT kids too when they were in elem school and had valentines. OP don't worry-your ds probably only has one or two more years where those are a 'thing' so just help him and roll with it!

[Anonymous]

I feel you OP! Kiddo is 13 now but this was torture all thru elementary. I bet your kid will get a typing accomodation and this problem will go away! Some problems are solvable, some aren’t… thankfully this is a solvable one. Hugs!

[Anonymous]

My kid is Dyslexic with Dysgraphia. We print labels and use my Cricut to cut them out. She then applies to the Valentine's. Fun things like this do NOT warrant a battle, I don't care what the teacher says.