Community Chat

[Trinity11]

---

@Shelbelle wrote:

It is pitiful that my gr kids wont know how to sign their name, very very sad. 

---

Why not teach them yourself? If my generation gets proactive (because this is their fear) than we should do something about it.

[ROMARY]

p.s.

It takes so much more time to print out notes and letters.

I don't enjoy using print (not cursive) when writing notes and short letters to several youngsters who aren't able to read cursive.

Just try NOT writing a note or letter in cursive.  Very time consuming, and many more lifts of our pen.

[dmeasy]

Pennsylvania just mandated that all schools must teach cursive writing next year.

[Catastrophe]

My handwriting teacher in grade school had very beautiful handwriting.  She taught us students well.  To this day I have had many compliments on my handwriting and have been asked to do many projects at businesses I have worked at over the years.  Need to go back to those days the way they taught back then.

[CelticCrafter]

---

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:

Cursive is not taught here in NY. When I pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, I sign in cursive and then am always asked to print my name also. Sloppy handwriting I guess.

---

@proudlyfromNJ not sloppy handwriting if they are asking you to sign those electronic pads.  No one could have nice handwriting on one of those things.

[Shelbelle]

---

@Trinity11 wrote:

---

@Shelbelle wrote:

It is pitiful that my gr kids wont know how to sign their name, very very sad. 

---

Why not teach them yourself? If my generation gets proactive (because this is their fear) than we should do so about it.

---

That has to be up tp their parents, not me, I dont see them enough to do it. 

[shoesnbags]

---

@sunshine45 wrote:

this is not new in our area.

interestingly, my own adult children dont even write in cursive anymore even though they were taught. i have also noticed that if they HAVE to write, they print.

---

@sunshine45 

I've noticed the same thing about my 40-something children.

[Q-Checker]

@Shelbelle @mormel20--They WILL be able to sign their names -- in print, which is a valid signature and functional writing method. Nothing pitiful about it!

[sunshine45]

---

@ROMARY wrote:

p.s.

It takes so much more time to print out notes and letters.

I don't enjoy using print (not cursive) when writing notes and short letters to several youngsters who aren't able to read cursive.

Just try NOT writing a note or letter in cursive.  Very time consuming, and many more lifts of our pen.

---

for us, maybe....

for them, no......

they can print pretty quickly and much more quickly than i can.

dont even get me started on how fast they can type!

[Citrine1]

My 11 y o grandson writes in cursive.  It's still being taught in his school.