Aibu does anyone else have a five year old who writes like this?

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I am blown away by Charlotte's handwriting, she is only five. Surely this is preternaturally advanced? Link below.

My own DC who is also five cannot write like this, and I thought his writing was great...feeling bad about my homeschool skills!

Please put my mind at rest!

news.sky.com/story/george-charlotte-and-louis-make-cards-for-granny-diana-on-mothers-day-12245781

@FreekStar

It doesn't take a private education to have neat writing. She's almost 6. The very best in the year 1 class have writing like that at my school- an ordinary C of E in the North. I'm guessing her mother is very neat in everything and Charlotte is similar. There's a little girl like that in every class. And it will have been drafted out first then written up neatly in her best writing I'm guessing. My own dd could write like that in Y1- she had excellent fine motor skills and could produce accurate drawings at an early age too.

Well you've just made me feel really bad about my Y1 child's handwriting - cheers 👍🏻

My son with beautiful writing was taught cursive from the start, so at 4 his progress was slow, at 5 it came together. At his school they didn't believe it was good to teach one way of writing for a couple of years and then say there is this cursive writing which is better and they have to start again.

My 8 yr old still quite scruffy in writing style.

My youngest ds had writing like that at that age.

He's 15 now and his writing is so awful I can't read a word he writes.

@Robintakeover

I’m more concerned about the content - not sure why you would get a child to write letters to a Grandparent they never met . I never met 2 of my grandparents - they died when my parents were a little younger than William and Harry were. I would have found it odd to do that and there was plenty about my own childhood that was not ideal

It said they did it for William. I suppose they do one for Kate's mum and don't want him mum left out. It isn't that unusual, my kids never met my father but have put flowers with a card on his grave.

@Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep

Here's a sample of what my 5 year old produced for mothers day. It's not bad. She had been out of school and refusing to engage in home learning since November. I wonder what she'd have achieved if she'd actually been educated over the last 4 months by someone who didn't keep bursting into tears (ie me) every time they attempted it...

But you can tell Thats been traced over!

Are you surprised? She is one of the most privileged children in the world, she will have the best education money can buy. She is probably going to be above average in lots of areas.

@MNWorldisCrazy
What are you on about? Some children have lovely writing, some don't! In fact, most don't.

Louis writing/tracing his name didn't surprise me — DM tells me I could copy mine at two. I didn't understand they were letters, but I could reproduce the shapes underneath and recognise it as my name (I could also recognise shop logos, and say "Boots" or "Sainsbury's" but I wasn't actually reading them). Apparently this was because I was so clumsy my parents and grandparents found it much safer to do activities with me where we were sitting safely at the table.

I think it could definitely be Charlotte's, but I agree she probably copied it and it's her "best" handwriting. I have a diary that I wrote when I was 5 and a half and the spelling is definitely not that good!

George's picture was the one that shocked me. I think that's really good for a child his age, especially the tree (although I'm not quite sure what it's doing in a desert with those lovely cacti!).

I looked up Charlotte's age after seeing this in the papers as I also thought it was impressive. We were excited that our 4 year old could write her name in Caps. It only has 3 letters though but still pretty proud.

@MNWorldisCrazy your DD's is near identical to my 6 year old year 1 too

Most kids of age 4/5 can learn pretty anything if the time is put in. Just depends what you want to prioritize. Some can speak a second language quite fluently but can’t write their name. Another could play the piano well but not write their name, or excel in design or maths etc. I personally don’t choose to start handwriting until about 5, but to each their own.

I know isn't she amazing ,she must be such a clever little girl with excellent hand eye coordination.

They don't learn this type of hand writing in year 1!

There was a clever little girl in DS's class who wrote a thank you note for a birthday present (6th Birthday) it was very like Princess Charlotte's writting. She was one of the brighter children in the class and the child of a University Lecturer and a grafic designer. So I would so probrable it's hers.

say

Perfectly ordinary state school

My five year old writes like a drunk GP.

I know children at private schools that are 5 and they write like Charlotte. My son is 6,in year 1 at a state primary and he us very bright bit his writing is not like that.They haven't taught them cursive yet apart from the flicks.

My boy is just 5 and has just learnt to write his name and I’m really proud of him!

Lovely handwriting but she possibly copied it from paper too

OK, I teach 5- 7 year olds in a private school. That handwriting is pretty standard in one of my classes. I imagine lots of the children in her class write the same. What I find stranger, is George writing about missing and thinking about someone every day, when he never knew them. It is not their grief.

This was an awful piece of PR from the palace

I would say that is pretty average for Thomas’s.

I thought the same. My daughter is a similar age to Princess Charlotte and no way near that level.