Cursive writing [warning possibly offensive or pfb or both]

[choosyfloosy]

DS appears to be doing this at school. It's beautiful. [dabs at eyes with tiny white lace-edged hanky]. Reminds me of the Babar books.

[CybilLiberty]

Ooh can he come and teach my ds who seems to be perfecting the 'spider crawled through the ink pot' technique.

[ABetaDad]

Aww .... it is lovely when they do that.

However, I always think that they would be better learning to touch type at 60 words per min given they will be using computers for the rest of their lives.

[Bonsoir]

DD has started this at French pre-school .

Handwriting is a vital skill. Like riding a bicycle.

[choosyfloosy]

ABD not so sure tbh. I can certainly touch type and have spent many unavailing meetings trying to persuade senior people in the UK to learn, thereby saving aeons of time (it was not long ago that in every job I was in, all the managers handwrote everything which I then typed in - futile or what? Entirely class/gender-based in the UK IMO). But IMO touchtyping is a different mental process from handwriting and we need to know more about what happens during both before discarding handwriting.

[heads to Google Scholar for fMRI studies thereof]