The Joy of doing Handwriting

I remember how desperately I tried and never could really write as beautifully as others... my hand was never that fluid for whatever reason.. and as I got older and began doing things like lifting boxes at work, the muscles in my hands got bigger and I feel like I have winter gloves on because of that... Try writing neatly when you have big clunky fingers. or you use the muscles in them or hard tasks and not the little bitty ones. like hand sewing, doe instance.... THAT is one factor... 

I have found that the more I do little tasks and write instead of typing all the time, the better my writing is is, but knowing how and being sloppy aren't the same thing

I studied handwriting analysis for several years and used it as a fun game for people who wanted to see if it worked, many years ago and maybe you should be prod that your son has messy writing, if it shows a swift penstroke as well...because another factor effecting handwriting is factor is the swiftness of the mind. Highly intelligent people tend to have messy writing because their hand is slower than their mind when they are writing and trying to put the thought down before it flies past and is forgotten..

People DO need to know how to read and write cursive.

If they don't like doing it, tell them, as my mother (an artist) did, that it's like having your hand figure skating and to feel the freedom in it as you release thoughts to paper. ~.There is a wonderful feeling that comes from designing words and creating mental pictures with them, and at the same time, creating a visual work of art, and feeling the feel of different pens and pencils and tips while moving your arm and hand and flexing your fingers, as your mind glides across a piece of paper, feeling even the various textures of that, and the different pressures used, and the color s and kind of ink or "lead" used... 

No two handwritings are alike... so you are also leaving a bit of yourself wherever you have left a piece of handwriting ... Typing something and having a computer print it all that  individuality is lost

Printing is needed as well, of course, but printing is like walking through the woods when you have time and handwriting is like swift figure skating on a big wide lake covering a lot of thought in a little time

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