I love homeschooling. I love that I get to spend the day with my kids and that I am taking an active part in shaping the adults they will become. I love that we can spend as much time as we want to on something because I get to choose what they will learn and when they will learn it.
I am almost done planning for the fall. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to use but just needed to put in on paper. So far, the only books I have to buy are four astronomy books for Christian and Lightning Literature for all three. (British Literature: Early - Mid 19th Century and 7th grade)
My only question is this... How important is handwriting? All three of my boys have horrible handwriting. They inherited it from both sides of the family and I am beginning to think there is no hope. Alex and Ethan still write in big "little kid" letters and you can barely read it. Christian writes so small you can barely read it. He was also (un)lucky enough to be taught "ball and stick" at home and forced to use D'Nealian for the 1/2 year he was in PS 2nd grade. His writing is all kinds of messed up. Sigh...
Do I just give up and let them type everything or do I continue trying to get them to improve, even though we have worked through "Handwriting without tears" and it didn't help?
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My brother has horrible handwriting, and my stepmother just accepted it. When he writes checks - they are almost embarrassingly bad. Handwriting does give off an impression.
See, that's what I was afraid of. Marty and I both have bad handwriting, but not as bad as the boys. I just don't know what to do... do I just keep making them write, or do we try a program? HWT again? Sigh... I just don't know.
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