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[quote=Anonymous]One of my kids had terrible handwriting at that age, and I didn't worry about it, but the bad handwriting persisted. When I homeschooled him, I had him do a page or two from the book "handwriting without tears" every day. That's all I did and it solved the problem. He liked that time because he got to listen to his audiobook while he wrote. It just took five or ten minutes.

The problem with bad handwriting is that later on he might be expected to do assignments that require writing, but won't be able to compose well because he issuing all his working memory on handwriting.

I think kids don't get enough pen and pencil practice, so it's  not unreasonable for a parent to give them some practice. In your shoes, knowing what I know now, I would have my kid do handwriting without tears five minutes a day while he listened to something he liked, like music or an audiobook. But I also wouldn't stress about it. Kids pick up on your stress and that causes all sorts of problems. [/quote]

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