We have had some serious handwriting frustrations lately. Even with using the Handwriting without tears curriculum - a few tears have been shed. My little girl gets extremely upset if she thinks she can’t do something. She wants to get it right the first time and if she has any thought that it might not turn out "perfect" she starts to become agitated. Then, if she makes a mistake she becomes very upset. Time and again I have explained to her that she is learning. That she is expected to try her best but that with practice she will be able to do what seems difficult now.
After thinking it over I have decided that we are moving too fast when it comes to handwriting. We have been speeding right through her workbook but it seems that a little more review is necessary. I know that many people work on one letter for a whole week. I didn’t think we needed to do that since she could already write her uppercase letters well. But...the lowercase letters are proving to be a little more difficult. I taught her to write many letters last year without giving much thought to it. I taught her to write some lowercase letters differently because I was not really aware of other ways to do it.
Anyway.... to make a long story short, we are taking it slower. Our lessons are still only about 10 minutes long but we are repeating them for a number of days instead of moving on too quickly. | 
