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.