I’ve been lazy usually other things to do (you know, like earning money!) so I’ve never found the time to teach Raine to read or write at home.
Not only because of that, but also because I want him to be independent in doing school work and I do not want to put pressure on him as he started going to preschool at age 2.5 years only. Little kids starting early at school are (I think) have the highest risk of being burned out, school-wise.
Regarding Raine’s handwriting, it is something that progressed from “chinese characters” to sticks and stones. Later he turned into a tracing, copycat and then into writing on his own (the whole alphabet and his whole name) from memory. Yeeha!
But of course there are stuff in between that consisted of boxes of Mongol #2 pencils (first the fatter ones to the slender normal slender pencils that adults also use), rims of bond paper and pads of school writing paper — not to mention the many scratch papers and cardboard boxes whose backs made it to become Raine’s writing sheets! And of course the crayons that substituted as pencils each time we run out of supply.
And oh, the notebooks! The notebooks that each do not last a week. He he. I am really not complaining, even though he’s now into black and red-inked ballpens. Lots and lots of ballpens!!!
Well…as long as he doesn’t ask for logo pens yet, I guess I’ll be fine! Ha ha ha.