Educating my youngest son Andrew has proved a bit more challenging than working with the other two.  They took to the letters like fish to water.  I don't remember really having to work with either of them on ABC's; they just got it.  Andrew has really struggled with the alphabet.  I discovered he is VERY sequential, so anything done without a sequence requires a lot of effort, and I started teaching letters with his Handwriting Without Tears curriculum based on common letter shapes.  I do remember with my older two discovering that there were "obvious" things that we hadn't learned when we began to have evaluations done--like writing their names, or the date, or even knowing their address.  So I have nudged AJ a little on these.  He was very proud of himself when he could write his name "AJ" on his own. Several days ago I casually said,"Hmm, now we need to work on your whole first name."  I decided to keep it low key, so I wrote it on our really cool chalk board, up high, and then showed it to him and suggested he copy it if he wanted.  So he copied . . . and copied . . . and copied.  I keep finding it written on the board--ANDREW.  Today I took him to a friends house to spend the night, and he sat down with a pad and from memory wrote his name!  I was so surprised and impressed.  I was also pleased at what a big deal my friend made over it. Isn't it great when you get a little glimpse of progress?