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

Well no-one in our family can write like that. One wonders how much time must be spent focussing on handwriting to get that result. What subjects have to be missed out? There are only so many hours in a school day.

I don't think there will be anything 'missed out' in the Childrens education.

I don't know why people can't just say she's got good hand writing and leave it at that. Got to be a million reasons why it's because she's privileged and what else she might be missing out on or having to endure.

@imamearcat

I don't know why people can't just say she's got good hand writing and leave it at that. Got to be a million reasons why it's because she's privileged and what else she might be missing out on or having to endure.

Quite a lot of us have. Though the discussion wasn't posted as "isn't she a good writer" but rather "is my child normal because their handwriting isn't as neat as Princess Charlotte's".

Such is the way with discussion, it's how people make sense of their own lives.
When we talk about others we are really talking about ourselves, a poster who is judgemental is revealing their fear and ignorance, that's how it works...

She was also extremely beautiful and the whole world loved her, or so it seemed, so it would be obvious to me that her grandchildren would love her too.

Rubbish. There's no six year old in the world, no matter who they are, that genuinely 'loves' or misses some distant relative they never met, especially someone as removed as a grandparent.

They're parroting feelings they're being told they should have. Very sad.

@BurgundyBells this is what I thought too. Isn't it strange to ask a child to write a card to a relative who they have never met, who has passed? At 5 you wouldn't understand would you, why you're being asked to do that and why you would say that you love someone you don't..odd IMO.

As a PP said, she will never be a medic that's for sure.

@BurgundyBells

She was also extremely beautiful and the whole world loved her, or so it seemed, so it would be obvious to me that her grandchildren would love her too.

Rubbish. There's no six year old in the world, no matter who they are, that genuinely 'loves' or misses some distant relative they never met, especially someone as removed as a grandparent.

They're parroting feelings they're being told they should have. Very sad.

I thought the same. My kids have a dead grandparent, they don’t really care about him. Why would they?

@CecilyP

Some schools teach cursive from the outset. Knowing plenty of people with children in Thomas’s, I would say that that is fairly standard handwriting for a Year 1 girl there

But not standard for a Y3 boy who is also a pupil at Thomas’s? George’s writing is also very neat but it is completely different style to Charlotte’s.

Girls tend to have neater handwriting. I’m not sure why. My handwriting was like this when I was 5. My twin brother’s wasn’t as neat and his reading age wasn’t as high as mine (his reading age was his actual age whereas mine was years ahead).

So many judgemental women in this thread. Jealous that their DC didn’t write this neatly aged 5. Every child is different.

My kids never met my dad. They'd think I was insane if I asked them to write a card for him.

In fact, I'd think I was insane too. It's plain daft. Serves no purpose!

Girls tend to have neater handwriting. I’m not sure why. My handwriting was like this when I was 5. My twin brother’s wasn’t as neat and his reading age wasn’t as high as mine (his reading age was his actual age whereas mine was years ahead).

No that’s not it. Both pieces of writing are very neat. It is the letter style that is different. Charlotte’s letters are in a fully cursive style whereas George’s are in a simple joined print. Same school 2 years apart.

@CecilyP

Girls tend to have neater handwriting. I’m not sure why. My handwriting was like this when I was 5. My twin brother’s wasn’t as neat and his reading age wasn’t as high as mine (his reading age was his actual age whereas mine was years ahead).

No that’s not it. Both pieces of writing are very neat. It is the letter style that is different. Charlotte’s letters are in a fully cursive style whereas George’s are in a simple joined print. Same school 2 years apart.

They both write in cursive. Children have different handwriting, just like adults.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/royal-children-george-louis-and-charlotte-write-mothers-day-cards-to-princess-diana/news-story/cc39f83ef8d9a482437b01888b411b2b

@BurgundyBells

She was also extremely beautiful and the whole world loved her, or so it seemed, so it would be obvious to me that her grandchildren would love her too.

Rubbish. There's no six year old in the world, no matter who they are, that genuinely 'loves' or misses some distant relative they never met, especially someone as removed as a grandparent.

They're parroting feelings they're being told they should have. Very sad.

I'd have to disagree with that. Young children love TV characters and soft toys and all sort of whack stuff. There is so much footage of Princess Diana that it is not difficult to imagine the children have an attachment to her between seeing footage and hearing stories.

Plus I do recall that my children at that age were peculiarly interested in late grandparents. One came home with a card for daddy with big hearts and kisses for his sadness about "grandad dying in the war" (he didn't)! It was very cute.

And my three year old told anyone who would listen that my mother had died in an earthquake (she didn't). Fantasy and reality are fairly fluid in little ones.

They both write in cursive. Children have different handwriting, just like adults.

No, they both join. No need to link again; the examples are in the OP. Charlotte’s letters are fully cursive which means they have a lead in stroke; it is something that has come back into fashion in primary schools in recent years. It is not style a child would use if not specifically taught. George’s letters are not in this style. Yet he spent 2.5 uninterrupted years at Thomas’s before lockdown.

I also saw this story and thought how amazing the handwriting was. And also how weird it was to write a card for a dead grandparent, even if it was Princess Diana.

Nobody uses cursive writing in any school I've been in (Scotland). When I taught in England, I had to learn how to do it. I've always wondered what's meant to be the advantages of it as it always seems messy unless extremely neat which is rare

@BurgundyBells

She was also extremely beautiful and the whole world loved her, or so it seemed, so it would be obvious to me that her grandchildren would love her too.

Rubbish. There's no six year old in the world, no matter who they are, that genuinely 'loves' or misses some distant relative they never met, especially someone as removed as a grandparent.

They're parroting feelings they're being told they should have. Very sad.

Charlotte’s letters are fully cursive which means they have a lead in stroke; it is something that has come back into fashion in primary schools in recent years. It is not style a child would use if not specifically taught. George’s letters are not in this style. Yet he spent 2.5 uninterrupted years at Thomas’s before lockdown

Maybe a lockdown tutor? Charlotte picked it up, George too old?

I'd eat my hat if K&W actually spent every day homeschooling the dc despite the reports of it.

Maybe a lockdown tutor? Charlotte picked it up, George too old?

Maybe it was the Spanish nanny! Less likely to have been the school.

She goes to Thomas’s and it’s cursive

Okaaaay! How did it pass George by?

George’s writing is also cursive but it’s a couple of years further on when they start to develop their own style. Also although it’s a generalisation girls tend to be more interested in neat writing than boys , but the formation of the letters is the same for both .

My dc were all taught cursive and joining up in year 1

She could have traced over pencil which was later rubbed out.

DS1 didn't learn cursive until year 3.
DS2 started it in reception.
Same school but curriculum changed.

^George’s writing is also cursive but it’s a couple of years further on when they start to develop their own style. Also although it’s a generalisation girls tend to be more interested in neat writing than boys , but the formation of the letters is the same for both.

No George’s writing is not cursive as I understand it. It is a simple joined style like most of us were taught at school and was popular until the reemergence of cursive. Seems odd that George would have developed it from having being taught cursive from reception. The formation of the letters is definitely not the same for both. However, despite being a boy, George’s writing is equally neat.