What is my son’s name?

[AcrobaticAlphabet]

So I have NC as when you’ve got it, it’s the final identifying piece in my posting history.

This is what he wrote when I asked him to write his name down today. What is it?

Jayden ?

Who has taught him to write in capital letters!!!! The school will not be your friend; it's a learnt mistake which is hard to undo.

Excellent deciphering

Congratulations on your genius little Saitod.

You know you need to call him Saitod as a pet name now, don't you?

Saw Tobias without reading the thread. Is he left handed?

@WallaceinAnderland

Excellent deciphering

It is certainly an acquired talent although not much use in 99% of daily life.

My ds is left handed. So interesting how they write backwards isn't it.

Tobias

SO normal for children to get their letters muddled & write right to left when first starting to write.

@quizqueen

Who has taught him to write in capital letters!!!! The school will not be your friend; it's a learnt mistake which is hard to undo.

Why does it need to be undone?

More important to get him to track words from left to right at this stage.

Is he learning to read at home? Are you pointing to the letters and words to show how they are left to right?

I don't understand Tobias because even right to left, the first letter is a d or a b if he's muddling them. The T is in the middle of the word. Sorry :)

I love it. How cute. Like Eric Morecambe playing the piano and insisting: I did play the right notes... just not necessarily in the right order.

He’s actually not left handed, as far as I can tell. But despite trying otherwise he does still hold the pen in his write hand with his left hand wrapped around it. I’m hoping school will drill that out of him though I used to get told off from holding my pen wrong and I still do, many many years later

Caps - well I have no idea it’s wrong. He has got 4/6 lower letters though (even if they are wrong) so I’m hopeful it will be fixed

He wrote Tob then ran out of room so went back to the beginning and wrote it backwards.

A few of the kids in my class do this when they get to the end of the line, they go up the side of the paper, writing the letters one above the other, or backwards across the page. They are quite ingenious really

@JinglingHellsBells

I don't understand Tobias because even right to left, the first letter is a d or a b if he's muddling them. The T is in the middle of the word. Sorry :)

The OP explained he started writing 'tob' and ran out of room so added the 'ias' onto the start of his name.

@AcrobaticAlphabet
have a look on Amazon for tripod pencil grips. They will help him hold the pencil with a correct pincer grip and he'll feel more confident about using just one hand.

@JinglingHellsBells

More important to get him to track words from left to right at this stage.

Is he learning to read at home? Are you pointing to the letters and words to show how they are left to right?

Yes, we are. I read 3 books every evening and we go through the words now (it’s all very excruciating with a 3 year old with lots of questions). I think this was just him trying to puzzle out not having much space. His earlier attempt of his name was in sequence, but over three lines so I’m taking any improvement a success

I got it as Tobias straight away when I looked. but I am a and have a leftie child...so I'm used to back to front writing!

@AcrobaticAlphabet

He’s actually not left handed, as far as I can tell. But despite trying otherwise he does still hold the pen in his write hand with his left hand wrapped around it. I’m hoping school will drill that out of him though I used to get told off from holding my pen wrong and I still do, many many years later

Caps - well I have no idea it’s wrong. He has got 4/6 lower letters though (even if they are wrong) so I’m hopeful it will be fixed

one of the best things to try at home is getting him to use the correct pencil grip. It's a developmental stage but teachers have 30 other kids to work with so trying it at home is a good move.

[quote FluffyPJs]@AcrobaticAlphabet
have a look on Amazon for tripod pencil grips. They will help him hold the pencil with a correct pincer grip and he'll feel more confident about using just one hand. [/quote]
Thank you! I’ll take a look. I remember really struggling with it growing up so if I can crack the bad habits earlier with him any tools and tips will be fab!

Satan.

Don’t hang around on the top of the stairs.

@quizqueen

Why does it need to be undone.

Because it’s impossible to write fluently using capital letters, you can’t join them up for a start, and they have starting places and elements that need you to take your pencil off the paper .

Because in English we only use capital letters for specific purposes and generally only at the start of words.

Because your hand gets accustomed to writing in a certain way, it’s called muscle memory, and if you have fixed that way of writing in Your muscles you have to unlearn it to write it correctly, which is much harder than learning it properly in the first place. If you want to try this then swap your knife and fork hand over!

It’s not uncommon to see older children with lovely fluent handwriting when they write in sentences still printing their names because they haven’t managed to lose the habit.

Well done him, but early success in literacy is no guarantee of eventual outcome. Early learning methods can often be by route rather than understanding, so I wouldn’t be cheering just yet

@Crossfitwidow

Satan.

Don’t hang around on the top of the stairs.

This has made me really really laugh!