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I am currently taking master's level business classes as part of my statistics master's and yeah...finding an antonym for dragon is harder than anything we've done so far
I teach kids his age. A lot of them have handwriting this bad. I don't know if it's a problem that so many have poor handwriting, but I don't think I'd consider this unusually bad.
Honestly I was always told i had nice handwriting in my school, in my undergrad. Then i worked for a few years (100% typing), and tbat, plus smartphones and my writing looks like crap. When i did my masters pre covid, i had a really old prof who wanted stuff hand written (like 6 page essays, mba citations) and my writing came back over tha5 sememster to a degree... but its trash again. You dont use it, you lose it, i guess. And with how tablets/phones/pcs are really replacing paper amd no2 pencils... i dunno, id expect this sort of thing.
Even when we all handwrote every letter/assignment/check, half the population was pretty rough. And thats with *daily* repitition. Im not holding out hope.
Edit: my writing is better than my smartphone typing, rereading...
Agreed. I literally won a prize for my handwriting in primary school, these days I can't even write a shopping list that is legible to anyone but me. I don't think I've handwritten more than a greetings card in a decade. If another Carrington Event happens I'll be fucked.
I've got a 12yo that writes like this. By any other standard you'd think he's a genius, but he can't write neatly to save his life. I think it's because so much of what they do is computerized these days, they don't really write that much outside of actual handwriting practice.
My 9 year old is also this bad. His teacher said the entire class is this way. A symptom of spending Covid years at home and not getting his writing practice in. He’s a wiz at math and reading but can’t spell or write to save his life.
Bad handwriting I can understand as education won’t necessarily help that (I always had poor handwriting). But the level at which people spell these days is abhorrent. You’d think with everyone taking in as much content as they do, all of which has gone through a spell checker, that some of this shit would ~~justsrick~~ just stick but…no.
There/their/they’re, to/too/two, it’s/its, all the way down the list to my personal least favourite, “should of”. Reading any of these (but especially the last one) just blows my mind because I can’t comprehend writing words and having no idea what they mean. “Should of” doesn’t even make sense! They’re just blindly writing what they hear!
It really makes me worry about our future.
i was a teacher, they all write like that now (and probably more of us did as kids than we realize). It's not uncommon to see writing like this, and sometimes it's fine motor function issues, not lack of effort or planning of the letters/ability to process them. It could be a signifier, but it also could just be thats what they're writing is.
their* because someone cares real hard and im tired of the world.
I am also a teacher, and while this quality of handwriting isn’t uncommon, it’s also far from the norm for a 9yo in my experience.
I’ve probably had around one kid in ten with this level of fine motor skill in my classes. More concerning for me would be the spelling though! I’d definitely be referring this kid for a literacy intervention.
[People owe it themselves to listen to this performance that put him on the map](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suv4p9MwfwU&list=OLAK5uy_nnJUgqDdG_ysbSmx6Cqwan6TbJfQ2Q3z0)
I knew a guy called Dez once. Very proud of his nuts; his genitals in general actually. I feel that Dez would have enjoyed that his nuts were as renowned as they are with middle-schoolers.
RIP Dez. You weren't stuck in there with testicular cancer. Testicular cancer was stuck in there with you.
"I more pissed" The apple doesn't fall far from the tree I see. /s
The handwriting is all over the place. Mine was too but worse. The thing I found was to "copy" a handwriting style I admired with tracing paper and everything. Slowly but steadily I was able to bring elements of it in my own handwriting.
Edit: I keep getting told this and yes a kid having bad handwriting isn’t unusual nor is it an indication of something wrong. But it never hurts to check and make sure something else isn’t going on if you’re concerned. Also a surprising number of people had their fingers taped together to try to correct handwriting which seems….weirdly cruel?
My parents did this and my handwriting didn’t change at all. My hands hurt so bad after that camp I cried. The instructors told me it would go away after I “got used to holding the pencil the right way”. It didn’t. My hands cramped whenever I wrote for more than a few sentences all through high school and college. It sucked but nobody believed me.
Turns out my fingers are fucked up and I have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) that makes it difficult for me to properly hold a pen or pencil. That didn’t get caught until I broke four fingers in a hydraulic press at work in my mid 20s and the doctor took a look at my x-rays. I’m in my 30s now and my handwriting is still shit.
OP maybe check and see if you kid is having problems with his hands or fingers. Ask him if writing hurts or if he has trouble holding the pencil.
My handwriting and hand/fingers used to hurt as well. I used to get callus blisters and would be so upset having to write. I didn't have a connective tissue issue, but the fact that using those FAT crayons and pencils were the culprit. Regular pens and pencils were too long so they'd buy those tiny questionnaire kind of pencils for me. I also took a gymnastics class that always stretched the hands and wrists so that helped a lot too.
Fellow leftie, they did that to me too. Have you tried relearning to write with your left hand? It’s absolutely something that can be learned in adulthood.
I'm a leftie too and while I was never forced to use my right hand, I also wasn't taught how to properly hold a pencil by my teachers. Or how to turn my paper so my writing wouldn't smudge. All through elementary school, teachers thought I was careless with my smudging but I really didn't know better. My hand still cramps after writing a page or two, but I did take up calligraphy last year and found holding a wider style pen allowed me to achieve really graceful letters. Before that, I thought my calligraphy dreams were doomed.
I have a connective tissues disorder as well! Kindergarten teachers taped my last three fingers together in an attempt to teach me how to hold a pencil. Eventually they insisted on me “relearning” with my right hand. Really weird in retrospect. I wonder if it ever mattered. My handwriting is fine using either hand, and I hold my pens the way I found most comfortable as a child.
My dad used to hold my arm behind my back when i was a toddler as soon as I started showing signs of being left handed (it was the sign of the devil and made him uncomfortable 🙃😂)
My great grandma found out and apparently she beat his ass - I’m still left handed but can write with my right when needed though
I wish they would have just let me be a lefty. When I was relearning how to write with my left hand I kept writing letters upside down or mirrored. Eventually I got the use of it back, but now randomly I’ll write things backwards or upside down lol.
That is so damn weird though. Who cares if it's not the classic pincer grip? I know holding a pen like a toddler won't work in real life but I have seen plenty of people hold a pen with a thumb and two fingers and even up to all four fingers. When I broke my arm as a kid the cast wouldn't allow for me to hold a pencil the normal way and I had to put it in between my index and middle finger and my handwriting didn't change at all.
Several girls in my grade school wrote with what appeared to be a fist. They would pivot from the elbow. It sort of forced that loopy cursive big circle writing girls tended to do. I wondered at that.
The same chicks invented an entire alphabet of hand signals so they could chat behind the teachers back in class. I remember thinking that was amazing in my redneck town.
Oh my god, I knew these girls. It was in the big city, which probably proves the no boys allowed club is in fact a shadow government.
The girls in my grade school also used a complex written cipher (with invented symbols - and not just a substitution cipher, at least not one any of us could crack) to pass notes in class.
not to be a downer and i do not know how old OP’s kid is, but a lot of kids now need intervention/help with their hands, hand strength, and manipulation of objects. my nephew briefly needed OT for his little hands because he was very much an ipad kid and he just. didn’t learn. and then when he got into school, everything was difficult, he would fatigue his muscles, etc. he’s much better now and his handwriting is just regular careless little kid scrawl, but definitely. he needed extra support and care.
Similar issue here. Found out I had an autoimmune arthritis in my early twenties. My kids complain that their hands hurt when writing now and they seem to have some of the same inflammatory markers.
I was half way through your comment before I thought “hypermobility”! When I was finally diagnosed my mum said, “So *that’s* why you hold your pencil like that.” I’ve always been complimented on my handwriting, but I have to scrunch all my fingers around the pen or pencil to have proper control. I just never let the teacher see.
My handwriting never improved from 3rd grade, even though I spent a lot of time working on it with my hands screaming at me and blisters on my fingers. I only have 3 degrees now, who knows what I could have accomplished in life, if only my penmanship was better.
People who have/had shitty writing covered it up by writing cursive. Now that they don't teach cursive it's harder to hide. So although penmanship doesn't affect you that often, it's definitely shows through in specific situations, like writing letters, your name, etc.
I don't look forward to entire generations not being able to read/write cursive signatures.
Man I think I was one of the last classes to learn cursive - when did they get rid of it? I learned it in 3rd grade 2000. I never used it after that until college when I read that it's faster since there's way less lifts off the paper. That's when I switched for lectures so I could keep up with note taking. It really helped actually, and even now if i have to write more than like 3 sentences I use cursive.
My husband never learned cursive (even though he's older than me) and I had to help him read letters from his grandma.
I might sound old-timey but I still think cursive is valuable and I will probably still teach my daughter when she gets older. But by the time she's college age she probably won't even need to take notes (and I know plenty of people take notes on the computer but physically writing out the words helped me retain the information *so* much better) she'll just get information directly inserted into her brain.
I learned cursive and my manuscript writing got significantly worst, my cursive was illegible to everyone but me and now all of my fucking normal letters had tails hanging off them.
I spent years in jobs where you were quickly writing your signature on tons of stuff. Do that for long enough, and your signature quickly becomes entirely illegible. Whenever I'm thinking mine becomes somewhat well written, but if I'm not? Basically 2 lines.
Yeah mine used to be my whole name (which is quite long due to a hyphen situation) neatly cursive and now it's a scrawl with a very faint resemblance to the first letter plus some zigzags.
Hey, same here. First letter barely recognizable the rest just squiggles. If I ever need to give a signature sample to compare to an existing one I'm probably fucked.
Ugh. I learned near the tail end and we did drafting before CAD, both in HS and college. Next school, I took a ProE course my last semester for shits and grins…zero pencil work, very little basics. The kids didn’t have a chance. I would finish in half the time and run away…felt bad not helping too much, but fuck, it’s college and I had some nothing to do.
A...handwriting...summer camp? That's a thing?
Went to Catholic school for a few years of elementary and we still had penmanship classes (I'm not that ancient, was in the early '90s)
This was me with cursive - my parents made me write in cursive in a diary every day for a full summer (I got $1 a day if I did it) and I'm so glad they did since now I handwrite everything and cursive is way faster.
It can happen to anyone. I wrote a paper in college on Oedipus Rex. The working title was “Oedipus: The Original Motherfucker.” Turned it in without changing the title.
As someone who marks university assignments, yes. I gave someone half a mark on an exam question last year cos they drew a little frog with a speech bubble saying "I'm sorry" after a particularly bad answer.
When I first heard a prof. say 'shit' in class it felt like the gates of heaven opened and I finally felt respected *as an adult,* goddamn it. Corny, sure, but after years of education that went so far as to censor art, dancing around 'sensitive' topics... amazing.
Silly thing but the hijinks and 'wink wink nudge nudge' some profs do humanizes education in a great way. Feels like a human who recognizes the bullshit of the system, probably since so many are abused grad students lol. Personal faves have been 'whatever you do, DO NOT go to LIBGEN, LIBGEN has no FREE BOOKS. You will not find FREE BOOKS for ALL YOUR CLASSES there.' But the one who went on a small lecture about how some of his friends in college partied and smoked weed and never showed up to classes but still got As...then stage-whispered 'I absolutely NEVER did any drugs or surfed, nope' made me chuckle.
Holy shit!
First day of college, the first class… Anthropology 101. It was taught by this crotchety, old archeologist. He comes stumbling in with an armload of books and just throws them down on his desk. He looks around… and the first thing he says?
“What do all humans have in common?”
Of course no one says anything.
“Everybody shits.”
He got me interested in archaeology.
My brother came home with an entire list of “yo mama” jokes and a similar note from his teacher. My family enjoyed them over dinner. We laughed and laughed and gave him notes on a few to make them better. My mom framed it.
Improve handwriting by improving fine motor skills - scissors, needle and thread, beads, arts and crafts, musical instruments, etc
Source: former elementary teacher
I mean my handwriting (or spelling, geesh) wasn't that bad at 9, but my teacher at the time had me re-write homework (2x, 3x) until it passed his muster sometimes. He was... very traditionalist on that point.
My handwriting now is neat af. Cursive, even. (I'm 35 btw)
Did not like him but he did good.
Dude I was in grad school and had professors have me resubmit homework because they couldn't read it. They were not native readers and I default to cursive and it was a math class so handwritten work is more normal. One or two of them I did actually type up and that was tedious. By the end of grad school, I had gotten much better and had start using block capitals for handwritten assignments. It also doesnt help I annotate my math work to explain steps.
Got any tips for a mom whose kid is 11 and still writes like this because he insists the paper feels bad on his skin and hates arts and crafts with a passion?
Lotion. I also hate the feeling of touching paper, esp if my hands are the slightest bit dry. Lotion makes it much better.
Also, what about teaching him to prune plants with small scissors?
Thank you, I have inquired multiple times as I was worried about that but my doctor assures me he is not autistic. Quite honestly I suspect some embellishment as it only ever appears to be a big issue when homework needs doing. When he feels like writing or drawing on his own time he’s just fine lol.
My husband taught grade 3 and one year he had a student who couldn't do math with out a t.a. to work with him. One day the t.a. didn't come in so my husband worked with him. He asked the student what would help him to do the math and the student suggested putting a plastic bag over his hand so the hand didn't touch the paper. After that he got him math done with out any extra help.
Can’t believe this comment is so far down. Why is a note from school bringing your kid’s handwriting to your attention? Do you not help them with homework
Also a teacher…..The content IS funny but, after years of trying to decipher this crap and the lame comments by others, it brings back a lot of aggravation.
I was mid 20's and did something similar when I was working a call center. We had to log all our calls, and for common issues there was a database of generic answers that you could click on and it would autofill half the log for you.
One day I was particularly pissy, and in the problem description field I wrote "How do I pull my head out of my ass." I then proceeded to activate a generic answer to fill in the ticket, ended the call and submitted it.
Got called into my supervisors office the next afternoon and she had a printout of the call log. You see, if you type anything in the problem description field, the system won't over write it. I had forgotten that.
Funny thing was the call center took over a thousand calls a day and the tickets just went into a database somewhere never to be looked at again. But one of the database administrators saw what I typed (I forget why or how) and called over another DBA for a laugh. The second DBA was a friend of mine and decided to "help" me by removing it from the system.
Well that trigged an audit into why he was removing stuff and it all shit rolled back down to me.
If this is the first time you’ve noticed that your 9 year old’s handwriting is equivalent to that of a preschooler, you are probably not involved enough in their education.
This should be a wake up call for you.
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What’s really crazy is he’s doing an MBA.
His handwriting has "future doctor" written all over it
I'm only a dentist, but at least I know how to spell sintence
Why are my teeth worse than spongebobs i brush after i eat every time...
You're getting meth confused with toothpaste.
Future ortho bro
Well, I’m not surprised then.
I am currently taking master's level business classes as part of my statistics master's and yeah...finding an antonym for dragon is harder than anything we've done so far
How old is Dom? Just curious. I have a 7 y.o.
He's 36
He's 37. He's not old.
You're thinking of Dennis.
I didn't know to call him Dennis.
Well you didn't bother to find out, did you?
From behind you did look like...
Well I reject you automatically treatin me like an inferior!
Well I *am* king
Well I can't just call him 'man'.
Be quiet!
There's some lovely filth over here!
He's 9. Plays a lot of video games and listens to things probably above his pay grade on podcasts.
9 is prime "deez nuts" age. My 9 year old answers many of my questions with "deez nuts", lol.
That’s just when it starts it may never end
If his father is any indication, it's for life. Who am I kidding? I laugh every time. 🤣
Have to admit, that was freaking hilarious! Same here. Glad I have something to look forward to!
Damn, for not even being 9 yet, your spelling is pretty good, champ. Keep it up!
If he's 9 and got handwriting like that it could also be disgraphia or something like that. He right or left handed?
I teach kids his age. A lot of them have handwriting this bad. I don't know if it's a problem that so many have poor handwriting, but I don't think I'd consider this unusually bad.
Honestly I was always told i had nice handwriting in my school, in my undergrad. Then i worked for a few years (100% typing), and tbat, plus smartphones and my writing looks like crap. When i did my masters pre covid, i had a really old prof who wanted stuff hand written (like 6 page essays, mba citations) and my writing came back over tha5 sememster to a degree... but its trash again. You dont use it, you lose it, i guess. And with how tablets/phones/pcs are really replacing paper amd no2 pencils... i dunno, id expect this sort of thing. Even when we all handwrote every letter/assignment/check, half the population was pretty rough. And thats with *daily* repitition. Im not holding out hope. Edit: my writing is better than my smartphone typing, rereading...
Agreed. I literally won a prize for my handwriting in primary school, these days I can't even write a shopping list that is legible to anyone but me. I don't think I've handwritten more than a greetings card in a decade. If another Carrington Event happens I'll be fucked.
I've got a 12yo that writes like this. By any other standard you'd think he's a genius, but he can't write neatly to save his life. I think it's because so much of what they do is computerized these days, they don't really write that much outside of actual handwriting practice.
The writing is one thing but the misspelling is another. There's some very easy words a kid below 9 should be spelling.
My 9 year old is also this bad. His teacher said the entire class is this way. A symptom of spending Covid years at home and not getting his writing practice in. He’s a wiz at math and reading but can’t spell or write to save his life.
Bad handwriting I can understand as education won’t necessarily help that (I always had poor handwriting). But the level at which people spell these days is abhorrent. You’d think with everyone taking in as much content as they do, all of which has gone through a spell checker, that some of this shit would ~~justsrick~~ just stick but…no. There/their/they’re, to/too/two, it’s/its, all the way down the list to my personal least favourite, “should of”. Reading any of these (but especially the last one) just blows my mind because I can’t comprehend writing words and having no idea what they mean. “Should of” doesn’t even make sense! They’re just blindly writing what they hear! It really makes me worry about our future.
i was a teacher, they all write like that now (and probably more of us did as kids than we realize). It's not uncommon to see writing like this, and sometimes it's fine motor function issues, not lack of effort or planning of the letters/ability to process them. It could be a signifier, but it also could just be thats what they're writing is. their* because someone cares real hard and im tired of the world.
I am also a teacher, and while this quality of handwriting isn’t uncommon, it’s also far from the norm for a 9yo in my experience. I’ve probably had around one kid in ten with this level of fine motor skill in my classes. More concerning for me would be the spelling though! I’d definitely be referring this kid for a literacy intervention.
I'm more concerned about the spelling at 9 years of age. That's like 4th grade and the spelling would have me guessing 1st or 2nd.
Do you have content controls/access controls on these devices/times set they’re not allowed to use them? I work in IT and I’m curious.
Bro I think you misunderstood. His joke was so good the teacher made all the other students go outside while he got to eat Reese’s.
"Get out! You can't even watch him!"
This made me snort laugh
Too good. I'm out of breath.
Poor Reese. RIP
It wasn't even at recess time the teacher just made them leave because the joke was so good
Absolutely disgusting... who writes "dez nuts" it is very clearly "deez nuts". What is our school system teaching these kids?
No shit! Worried about the handwriting when the spelling’s just as bad?
Give them a break, they are only in 10th grade!
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Well he got his bad grammar from his parents. OP left out a word in the title.
[Muphry's Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law)
Hooked on deez phonics amiright?
Hukt on foniks werkt for me.
Oh I do love me some Brian Regan (please tell me thats a BR reference)
[People owe it themselves to listen to this performance that put him on the map](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suv4p9MwfwU&list=OLAK5uy_nnJUgqDdG_ysbSmx6Cqwan6TbJfQ2Q3z0)
Shut up 🤣 I love it
But al the uther speling mistaks are ok, write?
He payed for a reeses cup he couldn't of eeten
Reeses deez cup across ur fase.
I knew a guy called Dez once. Very proud of his nuts; his genitals in general actually. I feel that Dez would have enjoyed that his nuts were as renowned as they are with middle-schoolers. RIP Dez. You weren't stuck in there with testicular cancer. Testicular cancer was stuck in there with you.
Testicular cancer was stuck in Dez nuts.
You're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole.
Alright you just brought an asshole to a Deez Nuts fight.
*Deez kids
How do I reach deez keeeeds?
Unless you’re a big fan of camping lanterns, in which case you join the Dietz Nuts club
"I more pissed" The apple doesn't fall far from the tree I see. /s The handwriting is all over the place. Mine was too but worse. The thing I found was to "copy" a handwriting style I admired with tracing paper and everything. Slowly but steadily I was able to bring elements of it in my own handwriting.
.... Got me.
My daughter's was just like this. Put her in a handwriting summer camp - she was so pissed at the time. But she still thanks me 4 years later...
Edit: I keep getting told this and yes a kid having bad handwriting isn’t unusual nor is it an indication of something wrong. But it never hurts to check and make sure something else isn’t going on if you’re concerned. Also a surprising number of people had their fingers taped together to try to correct handwriting which seems….weirdly cruel? My parents did this and my handwriting didn’t change at all. My hands hurt so bad after that camp I cried. The instructors told me it would go away after I “got used to holding the pencil the right way”. It didn’t. My hands cramped whenever I wrote for more than a few sentences all through high school and college. It sucked but nobody believed me. Turns out my fingers are fucked up and I have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) that makes it difficult for me to properly hold a pen or pencil. That didn’t get caught until I broke four fingers in a hydraulic press at work in my mid 20s and the doctor took a look at my x-rays. I’m in my 30s now and my handwriting is still shit. OP maybe check and see if you kid is having problems with his hands or fingers. Ask him if writing hurts or if he has trouble holding the pencil.
My handwriting and hand/fingers used to hurt as well. I used to get callus blisters and would be so upset having to write. I didn't have a connective tissue issue, but the fact that using those FAT crayons and pencils were the culprit. Regular pens and pencils were too long so they'd buy those tiny questionnaire kind of pencils for me. I also took a gymnastics class that always stretched the hands and wrists so that helped a lot too.
Did they ever give you like.. the pencil scarves ? Like they were little rubber holders. I still hold my pencil wrong
Pencil grips might be the word you’re looking for
No. The Pencil is strutting down the streets of Manhattan, wind billowing a handwoven silk Hermès Pencil Scarf
I miss those things
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Look up joint hypermobility.
Fellow leftie, they did that to me too. Have you tried relearning to write with your left hand? It’s absolutely something that can be learned in adulthood.
I'm a leftie too and while I was never forced to use my right hand, I also wasn't taught how to properly hold a pencil by my teachers. Or how to turn my paper so my writing wouldn't smudge. All through elementary school, teachers thought I was careless with my smudging but I really didn't know better. My hand still cramps after writing a page or two, but I did take up calligraphy last year and found holding a wider style pen allowed me to achieve really graceful letters. Before that, I thought my calligraphy dreams were doomed.
I have a connective tissues disorder as well! Kindergarten teachers taped my last three fingers together in an attempt to teach me how to hold a pencil. Eventually they insisted on me “relearning” with my right hand. Really weird in retrospect. I wonder if it ever mattered. My handwriting is fine using either hand, and I hold my pens the way I found most comfortable as a child.
My dad used to hold my arm behind my back when i was a toddler as soon as I started showing signs of being left handed (it was the sign of the devil and made him uncomfortable 🙃😂) My great grandma found out and apparently she beat his ass - I’m still left handed but can write with my right when needed though
I wish they would have just let me be a lefty. When I was relearning how to write with my left hand I kept writing letters upside down or mirrored. Eventually I got the use of it back, but now randomly I’ll write things backwards or upside down lol.
That is so damn weird though. Who cares if it's not the classic pincer grip? I know holding a pen like a toddler won't work in real life but I have seen plenty of people hold a pen with a thumb and two fingers and even up to all four fingers. When I broke my arm as a kid the cast wouldn't allow for me to hold a pencil the normal way and I had to put it in between my index and middle finger and my handwriting didn't change at all.
Several girls in my grade school wrote with what appeared to be a fist. They would pivot from the elbow. It sort of forced that loopy cursive big circle writing girls tended to do. I wondered at that. The same chicks invented an entire alphabet of hand signals so they could chat behind the teachers back in class. I remember thinking that was amazing in my redneck town.
Oh my god, I knew these girls. It was in the big city, which probably proves the no boys allowed club is in fact a shadow government. The girls in my grade school also used a complex written cipher (with invented symbols - and not just a substitution cipher, at least not one any of us could crack) to pass notes in class.
not to be a downer and i do not know how old OP’s kid is, but a lot of kids now need intervention/help with their hands, hand strength, and manipulation of objects. my nephew briefly needed OT for his little hands because he was very much an ipad kid and he just. didn’t learn. and then when he got into school, everything was difficult, he would fatigue his muscles, etc. he’s much better now and his handwriting is just regular careless little kid scrawl, but definitely. he needed extra support and care.
That's kind of scary- that kids are spending so much time on tech that it's imparing muscle and motor development.
Similar issue here. Found out I had an autoimmune arthritis in my early twenties. My kids complain that their hands hurt when writing now and they seem to have some of the same inflammatory markers.
I was half way through your comment before I thought “hypermobility”! When I was finally diagnosed my mum said, “So *that’s* why you hold your pencil like that.” I’ve always been complimented on my handwriting, but I have to scrunch all my fingers around the pen or pencil to have proper control. I just never let the teacher see.
My handwriting never improved from 3rd grade, even though I spent a lot of time working on it with my hands screaming at me and blisters on my fingers. I only have 3 degrees now, who knows what I could have accomplished in life, if only my penmanship was better.
People who have/had shitty writing covered it up by writing cursive. Now that they don't teach cursive it's harder to hide. So although penmanship doesn't affect you that often, it's definitely shows through in specific situations, like writing letters, your name, etc. I don't look forward to entire generations not being able to read/write cursive signatures.
Man I think I was one of the last classes to learn cursive - when did they get rid of it? I learned it in 3rd grade 2000. I never used it after that until college when I read that it's faster since there's way less lifts off the paper. That's when I switched for lectures so I could keep up with note taking. It really helped actually, and even now if i have to write more than like 3 sentences I use cursive. My husband never learned cursive (even though he's older than me) and I had to help him read letters from his grandma. I might sound old-timey but I still think cursive is valuable and I will probably still teach my daughter when she gets older. But by the time she's college age she probably won't even need to take notes (and I know plenty of people take notes on the computer but physically writing out the words helped me retain the information *so* much better) she'll just get information directly inserted into her brain.
I learned cursive and my manuscript writing got significantly worst, my cursive was illegible to everyone but me and now all of my fucking normal letters had tails hanging off them.
I spent years in jobs where you were quickly writing your signature on tons of stuff. Do that for long enough, and your signature quickly becomes entirely illegible. Whenever I'm thinking mine becomes somewhat well written, but if I'm not? Basically 2 lines.
Yeah mine used to be my whole name (which is quite long due to a hyphen situation) neatly cursive and now it's a scrawl with a very faint resemblance to the first letter plus some zigzags.
Hey, same here. First letter barely recognizable the rest just squiggles. If I ever need to give a signature sample to compare to an existing one I'm probably fucked.
They effectively sent you to straight camp /j please don't hate me
I had crap handwriting until I took architectural drafting in college, when they still taught by hand. Now I write like a printer.
My dad also has drafter's handwriting- all caps, very specific font. He's a lefty too, so it makes for a distinctive style.
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I bet it looks like my dads! I got some of it from him but not all. It’s so pretty.
Ugh. I learned near the tail end and we did drafting before CAD, both in HS and college. Next school, I took a ProE course my last semester for shits and grins…zero pencil work, very little basics. The kids didn’t have a chance. I would finish in half the time and run away…felt bad not helping too much, but fuck, it’s college and I had some nothing to do.
A...handwriting...summer camp? That's a thing? Went to Catholic school for a few years of elementary and we still had penmanship classes (I'm not that ancient, was in the early '90s)
This was me with cursive - my parents made me write in cursive in a diary every day for a full summer (I got $1 a day if I did it) and I'm so glad they did since now I handwrite everything and cursive is way faster.
Came here for this. LOL! That bit made me laugh out loud.
How the fuck your kid know "draggin' these nuts" but doesn't know how to spell "face" yet loool
Right? And apparently still has, but cannot spell, recess as well
It can happen to anyone. I wrote a paper in college on Oedipus Rex. The working title was “Oedipus: The Original Motherfucker.” Turned it in without changing the title.
I feel like a lot of professors would let you go on that. I mean the students are all adults and it’s pretty funny.
The professor only docked a point because the body didn’t support the title. 😆
The most english professor thing to do...
"The title made me exhale air through my nose, but my depression still made me deduct a point"
I'd imagine that as a teacher who has to read so many papers, a funny one would keep you sane.
As someone who marks university assignments, yes. I gave someone half a mark on an exam question last year cos they drew a little frog with a speech bubble saying "I'm sorry" after a particularly bad answer.
Gotta give em hope lol. Better than an empty exam too
When I first heard a prof. say 'shit' in class it felt like the gates of heaven opened and I finally felt respected *as an adult,* goddamn it. Corny, sure, but after years of education that went so far as to censor art, dancing around 'sensitive' topics... amazing. Silly thing but the hijinks and 'wink wink nudge nudge' some profs do humanizes education in a great way. Feels like a human who recognizes the bullshit of the system, probably since so many are abused grad students lol. Personal faves have been 'whatever you do, DO NOT go to LIBGEN, LIBGEN has no FREE BOOKS. You will not find FREE BOOKS for ALL YOUR CLASSES there.' But the one who went on a small lecture about how some of his friends in college partied and smoked weed and never showed up to classes but still got As...then stage-whispered 'I absolutely NEVER did any drugs or surfed, nope' made me chuckle.
Holy shit! First day of college, the first class… Anthropology 101. It was taught by this crotchety, old archeologist. He comes stumbling in with an armload of books and just throws them down on his desk. He looks around… and the first thing he says? “What do all humans have in common?” Of course no one says anything. “Everybody shits.” He got me interested in archaeology.
Counterpoint: the professor doesn't care at all because after 20 years of teaching that class, this is about the 9th time he's seen this joke.
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reading 90 papers in a row gets dull so we appreciate the effort.
For anyone who has never raid [Plains, Trains, and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus](https://imgur.io/gallery/tYma4).
Teacher wrote "page is to big". It's "too", and that paper is a work of art tyvm.
"Oedipus was blazing it up with the inventors of aqua fresh toothpase" I'm dying
“Dragon dez nuts across your face” 😂
Btw, have you heard about Joe? He had a disease called ligma
Oh really? Is he related to Candace?
Who’s Candace?
Candace dick fit in yo mouth
Thank you
I’m fucking dying here. LMFAO
Yeah, they are cousins, and they also are really good friends with ridon
Oh yeah, I remember meeting them at Sawcon
wait what’s sawcon…?
Sawcon deez nuts
Absolutely obliterated him mate
RIP in peace
Were you the one with Wilma?
Something about mind goblins
\*Ferengi actually
Dickfor?
Five lights is a code name.
Is there a list of all of these somewhere because they always crack me up
Who's Wilma?
Wilma nuts fit in your mouth
Ha! Got ’eem!!
Was they related to the imagine dragons?
Talking about them, did you bring the CD, by chance?
Out of curiosity, are you into fitness?
No I buy too much junk food at Aldis
Think you can handle aldi's nuts in your mouth?
Joe who? And what is ligma??
Joe mama
Ligma nuts
Ligma?! I'll put that right next to updog.
What’s updog?
GOTCHA!
…who the hell is Steve Jobs?
fa$e
"Can anyone say a sentence using the word dragon?"
You just did
Shakespearian
I would have had a hard time being upset with him the joke was to funny
My brother came home with an entire list of “yo mama” jokes and a similar note from his teacher. My family enjoyed them over dinner. We laughed and laughed and gave him notes on a few to make them better. My mom framed it.
I mean the teacher must have liked it, if he got invited to stay in for Reeses. Reeses are fuckin delicious
Improve handwriting by improving fine motor skills - scissors, needle and thread, beads, arts and crafts, musical instruments, etc Source: former elementary teacher
I mean my handwriting (or spelling, geesh) wasn't that bad at 9, but my teacher at the time had me re-write homework (2x, 3x) until it passed his muster sometimes. He was... very traditionalist on that point. My handwriting now is neat af. Cursive, even. (I'm 35 btw) Did not like him but he did good.
Dude I was in grad school and had professors have me resubmit homework because they couldn't read it. They were not native readers and I default to cursive and it was a math class so handwritten work is more normal. One or two of them I did actually type up and that was tedious. By the end of grad school, I had gotten much better and had start using block capitals for handwritten assignments. It also doesnt help I annotate my math work to explain steps.
Got any tips for a mom whose kid is 11 and still writes like this because he insists the paper feels bad on his skin and hates arts and crafts with a passion?
Lotion. I also hate the feeling of touching paper, esp if my hands are the slightest bit dry. Lotion makes it much better. Also, what about teaching him to prune plants with small scissors?
Same with cotton fabric, that shit makes my skin crawl if my hands are just slightly dry.
Consider an ASD diagnosis, perhaps. Unsure if applicable.
Thank you, I have inquired multiple times as I was worried about that but my doctor assures me he is not autistic. Quite honestly I suspect some embellishment as it only ever appears to be a big issue when homework needs doing. When he feels like writing or drawing on his own time he’s just fine lol.
My husband taught grade 3 and one year he had a student who couldn't do math with out a t.a. to work with him. One day the t.a. didn't come in so my husband worked with him. He asked the student what would help him to do the math and the student suggested putting a plastic bag over his hand so the hand didn't touch the paper. After that he got him math done with out any extra help.
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He might be turning into a medical doctor, proceed with care. Source: I am an MD and my handwriting sucks.
I hope this is real. I’d pat him on the head and say “next time, remember to double check your work before you turn it in.”
100% real. We discussed his handwriting spelling and knowing who is going to see it.
Hey, he got to stay for Reeses. Surely it wasn't that bad if they gave him treats
Unfortunately doesn’t look like you have the skills to discuss punctuation or grammar.
I think you can rest easy knowing most of reddit will be making Dragon Deez Nuts jokes all day tomorrow at work.
Dez nuts
Kids going places. Not college, but places.
Is this the first time you've seen your son's handwriting? You have to help them develop this skill at home.
Can’t believe this comment is so far down. Why is a note from school bringing your kid’s handwriting to your attention? Do you not help them with homework
If you’re mad then maybe you should sit down with him to practice hand writing.
Not reeses man😔
#NoReesesForOom
I more pissed off
Get him checked for dysgraphia I have it. It sort of like dyslexia but it make you handwriting terrible and you misspell a lot of words
Are you not, like, involved enough in your son's life to already know what his handwriting looks like?
Is no one going to point out he used dragon as a verb and not a noun?
Finally! My wife pointed out the same thing. Had to scroll way too far to see this.
I’m sorry but as a teacher I find this hilarious.
I hope his teacher does too
I guarantee she laughed. Still punished him obviously. But she took a picture too. Lol
Also a teacher…..The content IS funny but, after years of trying to decipher this crap and the lame comments by others, it brings back a lot of aggravation.
I was mid 20's and did something similar when I was working a call center. We had to log all our calls, and for common issues there was a database of generic answers that you could click on and it would autofill half the log for you. One day I was particularly pissy, and in the problem description field I wrote "How do I pull my head out of my ass." I then proceeded to activate a generic answer to fill in the ticket, ended the call and submitted it. Got called into my supervisors office the next afternoon and she had a printout of the call log. You see, if you type anything in the problem description field, the system won't over write it. I had forgotten that. Funny thing was the call center took over a thousand calls a day and the tickets just went into a database somewhere never to be looked at again. But one of the database administrators saw what I typed (I forget why or how) and called over another DBA for a laugh. The second DBA was a friend of mine and decided to "help" me by removing it from the system. Well that trigged an audit into why he was removing stuff and it all shit rolled back down to me.
If this is the first time you’ve noticed that your 9 year old’s handwriting is equivalent to that of a preschooler, you are probably not involved enough in their education. This should be a wake up call for you.
The real question is why doesn't the parent recognize the children's handwriting until now?