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Pegasi – My son has this exact same problem. He’s in 5th grade now and I have to say, we haven’t made any HUGE strides.
What I do is ask teachers for permission to have him type any paper he has to turn in due to the hand-writing issues. So far, we’ve never gotten push back. I do not type them for him – he does it himself (though I might help him format it once he’s gotten it all written and help him figure out the spell check and such).
Boys often have more problems at this age than girls with fine motor skills and honestly the hand cramps and the frustration (and the making him feel like he wasn’t smart) wasn’t worth it to me to make him write a ton just for the sake of learning a skill that’s not as valuable as it was 20 years ago. By high-school, they’ll want everything typed anyway!
The other thing you can do is try to make writing more fun. Our third grade teacher would have the kids write on sand trays or in shaving cream on a cookie sheet. It was fun and could get them to practice more. Also, those mediums are easier to make marks in than with a paper/pencil so it can help build fine motor control without wearing them out so fast.
Good luck to you! I won’t say it ever gets easy, but if you work with his teachers, I bet you can find some accommodations that can help relieve the frustration and help make progress!
It is kinda embarrassing, but I have had to work on my handwriting alot in the past couple of years and it still is not that great. One way I would work on it would be to pull out a favorite book and copy a few pages down every day, working my way through it.
Good support to remind them that even though you can’t see progress it is still there is good to have as well. You could try pulling out older things he had written to show him how far he has come, and help to encourage him to keep practicing. My brother had dyslexia, so writing and reading always always the last on his list. The book thing was one that my Mom started with him. Another would be to find another way to make it more fun, like writing jokes back and forth on paper or something. 🙂
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htm… wasn’t worth it to me to make him write a ton just for the sake of learning a skill that’s not as valuable as it was 20 years ago. By high-school, they’ll want everything typed anyway!
True! College/university is the same, just like the workplace. Actually, my writing still sucks; when I have to annotate packaging/printed marketing pieces by hand, it’s guaranteed the production artist at the other end won’t be able to read at least one word.
So developing typing skills the way we had to on a typewriter (eveyone who had to take typing in highschool, raise your hand), where you don’t need to look at your keyboard when you’re typing, is probably the way to go.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmI could use a good whine…… I hate being in my house as the only adult! Everything has decided to break since Danny died! My furnace stopped working and I’ve been running on emergency heat ALL winter. Even my emergency heat has decided to crap out here and there. I have a brand new furnace sitting in my back room but my dad doesn’t want to come and install it until the weather gets warmer :/. I’ve asked my dad a million times to help me fix my attic stairs, snake my downstairs toilet because it keeps clogging every other flush, help me fix the molding on the half installed floor downstairs, etc, etc. I also hate that I have to rely on total strangers to watch my kids so I can go to work. I hate that neither my parents or inlaws will help me with the kids when they are off and I have to work. I hate that when I voice my frustration on the subject to my mother she tells me “oh well you have to do what you have to do”. I hate that she tells me to get over it “it’s not like someone died”……:/. I hate that everyone dropped off the face of the earth and no one talks to me anymore. I must have the plague and no one told me. I have a much longer list but the twins just woke up so I have some diapers to change.
Awww purpledoggy BIG HUGS to you! I completely get it! And it’s not like you’re giving it your all. Being a mum to twins is hard, hard work and you have Alyssa as well and no Danny to boot. What a terrible struggle. If I were closer I’d be there in a heart beat to help. Hang in there sweetie, I’m with you in spirit. If you need to vent more feel free to email or shoot me a pm and I’ll send ya my phone number…
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I need someplace to vent and whine so please bare with me while I have a bit of a moment here.
Two years ago we struggled through my Mother In Laws illness, serving as primary care giver as she battled cancer. I was fortunate to have this strong vibrant woman in my life since I was twelve and she was very much a second mother to me. I was so very grateful for the time with her, but every day was a heart breaking battle, and we were devistated when we lost her just six short months after she was diagnosed.
A little over a week ago we learned that my Mother has cancer. She has had health issues for nearly five years now since she hurt her back at work, and the doctors had just started to get her to a point where she was comfortable again. Around Christmas we started to notice that she was a little weaker and a little more in pain than she had been. She went to the doctor and they said all was well. Over the last couple of months she has slowly started to get deteriorate step by step until she was nearly unable to walk and she started to look jaundice. She finally returned to the doctor again and this time was told some of her levels were elevated. Another doctor in the same complex took one look at her in the hallway and told her to go to the emergency room because he had an inkling that she was sicker than she looked. It turns out he was right. We were told that night that she had liver cancer, and with her levels it did not look promising.
Today was her oncology appointment.. and today was the day that they told us she will be with us at most another three months if we are very, very lucky. It is too advanced for surgery, her levels are too elevated for any manner of treatment.. so here we are tonight talking about hospice options. The doctors are not optimistic that is she will be with us beyond a handful of weeks and I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that in a short while I will be putting to rest the woman who gave me life. She’s only 58. I know we are not the first family out there to go through stuff like this but it is hard to feel much of anything beyond the devastated feeling of loss.
We are struggling with mounting ammonia levels and how they are affecting her brain, causing her horrible confusion and tremors. At this point perhaps it is a blessing that she really doesn’t understand what is happening to her, or how the days are passing. I count my luckily stars that at least her pain is under control and we have whatever little time we have left with her. I never thought we would be facing this task twice in our lives, let alone in a two year span.
I am very sorry as well. That must be very difficult to go through but I messaged with more info and hopefully something can help. 🙂
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I’m soo sorry Ciarnet! I have no words to help or heal. My heart goes out to you and your family through this very difficult time. No one should feel this loss at such a young age. I wish I could say something to make it better or easier but all I can offer is emotional support and friendship from afar! Huggs
So So Sorry to hear this. I know how you feel. My Dad had an aggressive Brain Cancer that we found out about in mid-February 2009, and he was gone in April 2009. Hospice was his only option, and we were lucky in that they were very caring and we had some quality time with him before he passed.
Get as much time with your Mom and family as you can.
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We lost her today… I’m not sure what more to say, it doesn’t seem real. They said a couple of months.. we got two weeks since we found out she had cancer. I have to keep reminding myself I know life isn’t fair. This suck.. this sucks on a level I can’t begin to put into words. I think that about sums it up.. it sucks. Thank you all for your well wishes, I have very much appreciated them.
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