My kids all have a bit of artistic flair. They can all draw, sketch, paint very well. Both of my daughters have the worst chicken scratch writing ever, and have since elementary school. My son, never wrote in cursive. He prints incredibly small, precise characters. I mix printing and cursive without rime or reason. My wife writes cursive that looks like it was the output from a very high tech plotter. Maybe k-boarding is a good thing.

I was taught cursive in primary school, but when moved to secondary was told that it was “unreadable” and had to be changed. So I started printing, in caps, so that my assignments could be read. To this day, I only write in caps—but I can do so very quickly…