There's also a reason the penmanship was so great. The ink quill. I've tried writing with one. It's difficult and slow. Ballpoint pens made it smooth, printers eliminated the need to learn to write. If I write slow, my penmanship is spot on!
YES, YES, AND YES! Many Kids have a hard time with reading a traditional clock face. But remember learning to read a clock face and counting money is a developmental thing. Some pick it up quickly and others take longer. For time, I suggest you use an old alarm clock where you can move the hands easily. Start with the hour, then move on to half hour. Minutes after is usually presented more in Grade 3.
What about knots, cooking over a campfire, sewing by hand (yes, including stitches for a wound) tracking and wilderness survival? AND, do you think this is why they wanted so badly to destroy the "Boy Scouts" & "Girl Scouts"? Horse husbandry and other animal care? (If we want our dogs to help us, we need to take care of our dogs...)
You have a good point. Those of us who grew up in the 50's and 60's learned some of these skills. I should add canning and dehydrating food to your list. I was a girl scout until I got to HS and I know how to do many of the things on your list. My husband on the other hand was raised in a big city. He has a hard time just lighting a fire in our out door wood burning pizza oven.
My Mom and I both had dyslexia and although we had trouble learning once we did we could also read upside down just as fast. I loved messing with my teachers as they walk up and down the isles while we took turns reading. The first time she saw me reading out loud with my book upside down and wanted to know what I was doing. I played dumb and said I thought it was supposed to be that way.
Not in private school. My son's been at a wonderful Christian school for the last school year (and will graduate from this school eventually), never knew cursive before but now he does! In fact, his friend had a birthday party last weekend, and I gave him the card to fill out - he wrote it all in cursive! I was so proud!! Now he's going into 5th grade and I know he never would have been able to do that (or lots of other things) if not for this school. Seriously - praise be to God.
No wonder they stopped teaching cursive to the kids!
Also, the original Constitution is written in cursive. They don’t want people to be able to read the Constitution as it was originally written.
and penmanship back then was on point!
looking at examples of their writing back then, they had crazy good penmanship.
must have the desire and then practice practice practice
There's also a reason the penmanship was so great. The ink quill. I've tried writing with one. It's difficult and slow. Ballpoint pens made it smooth, printers eliminated the need to learn to write. If I write slow, my penmanship is spot on!
I think most historical documents are in cursive now that you mention it.
We taught our children cursive AT HOME. They ASKED US to 💕👍🏽
This is why I love homeschooling my litter
I'm a retired teacher and my granddaughters' school does not teach cursive, so of course Grandma taught them how using the Denealian method.
That’s too awesome...Bless You. 🙏. They are the future.
Don't forget to teach your kids how to read a non-digital clock, how to read a regular map, too.
These are dying skills due to technology.
Also, how to read measurements on a ruler or tape.
Make sure they know difference between cm/in. Important they start measuring at the correct point on the ruler.
With the exception of the microwave, we only have analog clocks in our house.
Teach them how to count change back and how to do simple math in their head.
Also, how to use a rotary phone. Kek
And a compass
And drive a car with a STANDARD transmission?
YES, YES, AND YES! Many Kids have a hard time with reading a traditional clock face. But remember learning to read a clock face and counting money is a developmental thing. Some pick it up quickly and others take longer. For time, I suggest you use an old alarm clock where you can move the hands easily. Start with the hour, then move on to half hour. Minutes after is usually presented more in Grade 3.
What about knots, cooking over a campfire, sewing by hand (yes, including stitches for a wound) tracking and wilderness survival? AND, do you think this is why they wanted so badly to destroy the "Boy Scouts" & "Girl Scouts"? Horse husbandry and other animal care? (If we want our dogs to help us, we need to take care of our dogs...)
You have a good point. Those of us who grew up in the 50's and 60's learned some of these skills. I should add canning and dehydrating food to your list. I was a girl scout until I got to HS and I know how to do many of the things on your list. My husband on the other hand was raised in a big city. He has a hard time just lighting a fire in our out door wood burning pizza oven.
And what about Cyrillic and Asian scripts? And Morse code? And sign language?
That’s what I’ve said for awhile now.
Wow!Thats deep. Good thinking!
Mine too. My son actually prefers cursive to manuscript. LOL
What is "manuscript", which if you decode it means hand writing.
Manuscript is what my son’s Montessori teacher from a few years back called the method of non-cursive handwriting.
"Manuscript" is what the kids learn as "printing". Cursive is called..."cursive".
One of mine does not. 24. Older one learned in same elementary school but younger did not. She has trouble reading it but she has dyslexia also.
Awesome!!! Kids WANT TO LEARN.
My Mom and I both had dyslexia and although we had trouble learning once we did we could also read upside down just as fast. I loved messing with my teachers as they walk up and down the isles while we took turns reading. The first time she saw me reading out loud with my book upside down and wanted to know what I was doing. I played dumb and said I thought it was supposed to be that way.
My school still teaches cursive. My teaching partner and I felt it was an important skill. It also helps with brain memory. Here is an article about it. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-kids-smarter.html
You left out some letters. You could tell how disgusted my grandmother was by how many extra letters she stuck in the middle of shit. "Sheeeeit!"
call it OCR protection.
Came here to copy & paste this and then state that I did
came here to laugh at this.
Came here to get a laugh from follow up replies to comments on posts. Was not disappointed.
There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not reminded about why I homeschooled my children.
Not in private school. My son's been at a wonderful Christian school for the last school year (and will graduate from this school eventually), never knew cursive before but now he does! In fact, his friend had a birthday party last weekend, and I gave him the card to fill out - he wrote it all in cursive! I was so proud!! Now he's going into 5th grade and I know he never would have been able to do that (or lots of other things) if not for this school. Seriously - praise be to God.
I saw a video where an illiterate girl not more than 17-18 years old saying she couldn't read cursive. That's insane.
Was just about to write that!
Well that's something we will have to bring back won't we... And a crash course in American history!
I'm in a lefty controlled state and they teach cursive where my children go to school. Thank God!
how do they write now then? block capitals or something?
Came in for this; glad to see it at the top!