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Those of us who went to elementary school in another time remember the rite of passage that cursive signified.
The lined paper.
The strangely-shaped letters.
The repetitious copying and practicing of said letters until we got it right. The transition from a pencil to a pen, when our teacher thought that we were ready, and that we had mastered to some degree, the ability to write script.
Kids today text, type on laptops and FaceTime. They don't know what they're missing.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Long before this site, I had a little blog where I posted for 11 years. It was the genesis of Living in the Past on Substack. For many years, I lived in the past over at Multiple Mayhem Mamma. From a Parenting lens, I looked at the "then and now” and even hosted a podcast by the same name: Parenting Then and Now. Every so often I’ll post some of these classics from early days. Enjoy!
LISTEN: Do You Remember Cursive Writing?