https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 05:26:50 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574804 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:43:26 +0000 caterw 2574804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If school doesn't teach it, I will- I think it's important for my kids to be able to read original founding documents (and other historical documents). Plus, who doesn't like to learn how to fancy sign their name?? If there are other benefits, awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574637 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:01:31 +0000 Umbreon 2574637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If the school doesn't teach it, I will. It's how I usually write, so if anything, I'll teach it so my kids can read my writing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574629 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:53:44 +0000 LindsayLou 2574629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If they don't learn it in school, I'll teach them myself. I think it's important and also remember thinking it was cool to learn when I was a kid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574593 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:22:35 +0000 snowjewelz 2574593@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If school doesn't teach it I will! I think it's beautiful! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574393 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:23:12 +0000 tinyperson 2574393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hope she'll learn at school, but if not I'll teach her. I think it's important. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574320 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 06:52:04 +0000 looch 2574320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would like him to learn it. </p> <p>I recieved a thank you card in the mail yesterday from a high schooler, and while I appreciate the sentiment, the handwriting was kind of surprising. It looked very juvenille. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574238 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 01:04:44 +0000 lamariniere 2574238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They will learn it at school.</p> <p>I actually had to hand write a fairly formal letter this week and my penmanship (and that's just printing!) is so unbelievably horrific. :shocked: It's kind of embarrassing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574201 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:39:55 +0000 irene 2574201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wait, what? Of course, Cursive is an art. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574118 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:40:21 +0000 808love 2574118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: I agree with you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574109 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:29:04 +0000 honeybear 2574109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we'll cover it. Probably more as an art form than as the preferred way to write, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574088 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:18:49 +0000 Mamaof2 2574088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes they teach it in 3rd grade</p> <p>DS just finished 1st grade and is really into cursive - he can write his name and loves to have me write in cursive and then he reads it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574024 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:31:06 +0000 avivoca 2574024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, if they don't teach it in school, I plan to teach them at all. I think it's really important that they learn it, especially as I work for a historical society and if you can't read cursive, you can't read the majority of our historical documents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574013 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:25:51 +0000 chopsuey 2574013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure, but I hope so! If they don't, I'll teach them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2574012 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:25:44 +0000 Boogs 2574012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think so! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2573989 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:04:42 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2573989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think actually writing is important for those reasons, but my personal opinion is that learning cursive is like any other art...piano, painting, violin, and the tedious practice it requires is best done out of school. It is a big waste of precious in school time. I personally wont teach my kids unless they have some natural desire to learn it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2573985 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:00:22 +0000 Andrea 2573985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, they still teach it at our school so both kids will learn, yay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/will-your-lo-learn-cursive#post-2573976 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:48:07 +0000 mrbee 2573976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just read this article which said that handwriting cursive can have benefits beyond developing fine-motor skills:</p> <p>&lt;&lt; “This myth that handwriting is just a motor skill is just plain wrong,” Dr. Berninger said. “We use motor parts of our brain, motor planning, motor control, but what’s very critical is a region of our brain where the visual and language come together, the fusiform gyrus, where visual stimuli actually become letters and written words.” You have to see letters in “the mind’s eye” in order to produce them on the page, she said. Brain imaging shows that the activation of this region is different in children who are having trouble with handwriting. &gt;&gt;</p> <p><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/why-handwriting-is-still-essential-in-the-keyboard-age/" rel="nofollow">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/why-handwriting-is-still-essential-in-the-keyboard-age/</a></p> <p>I am a little skeptical of the importance of cursive, but I don't mind teaching it to my kids! My son is working on his cursive now, and at the very least it should help him be able to read cursive handwriting. And if it really helps with other stuff too (including executive function), all the better!</p> <p>Will your LO learn cursive? </p>