To Cursive or not to Cursive
Barely a month back into the new school year and it's been great. The routine is back in place, variations of the all important five a day are going into lunch bags so we can all pretend they are being eaten, we haven't run out of loo roll since August and I have the dog to myself. The only downside is homework. (Insert dramatic sigh here) With the just about exception of English, because of the reading, I hated it all through my own school years and am close to hating my children's homework even more. Each year I have a nemesis. Last year it was prime numbers, the year before it was Irish verbs and the trauma of the year they changed how to do long division still hasn't left me. The challenges vary every year, sometimes they creep up on me, others I have realised so late in the year that it's just plain embarrassing. This year however, it became apparent on day one of homework that cursive writing with my 6 3/4 year old was going to be the thing th