At all times, neat, legible handwriting was appreciated. Beautiful even lines caused delight and admiration. Even now, when most of the letters and texts are printed on a computer, accurate handwriting is still relevant and in demand. To teach a child to write beautifully and evenly is not an easy task. It is even more difficult to acquire this skill for an adult. But still it’s possible, it’s enough to make an effort and be patient.
When do you need to start teaching your child to write?
Children's handwriting - beautiful and neat - is the result of diligence and diligence on the part of both the baby and his parents. Many mothers are convinced that writing should be started as early as possible. It is better even before school, as soon as the child learns to somehow hold the pen in his hands. But is that right? Practice shows that too early and unreasonable teaching of writing does more harm than good.
Yes, the child will learn to write. But his handwriting will surely be terrible. The fact is that at an early age it is impossible for a child to instill the skill of beautiful writing. He simply cannot yet hold the handle with his small fingers. A prolonged development of handwriting under such circumstances leads to the fact that the child writes crookedly, illegibly and under all sorts of biases. Retraining it in the future will be extremely difficult.
So how old should you start classes? The baby reaches the necessary mental and physical development only by the age of 6. It is this time that is suitable for starting classes. Instead of developing handwriting at an early age, it is better to develop the child's fine motor skills. This is what you need to do up to 6 years.
The development of fine motor skills
Any teacher will say that children's handwriting - beautiful or, conversely, illegible - is the result of the level of
development of fine motor skills of the hands. The higher it is, the more neat the lines in the inscriptions. Therefore, from an early age, the baby needs to offer special classes. This can be modeling from plasticine,
cutting out paper figures, drawing up applications, modular origami, weaving beads, drawing with paints and simple pencils. In general, there are many options. To develop fine
motor skills of the hands , game exercises have also been developed, for example, drawing figures by connecting points with lines. This helps the child learn how to hold the pen properly.
The position of the pen when writing
If parents are interested in that their children have beautiful and even handwriting, then first of all they must teach their child how to hold the pen. There are lots of useful exercises for this. The simplest example is drawing with crayons in a coloring book. The more diligently the child will paint over the drawing, the better the skill will be fixed. It will also help increase writing speed, which will undoubtedly be very useful when writing dictations.
The position and posture of the child in learning to write
Even the most beautiful handwriting in the world is the result of
hard work. Equally important is the position of the child's body during class. If a little student is sitting in an uncomfortable position, then you can’t count on beautiful spelling of letters.
In order for the baby to write accurately and neatly, parents must monitor how he holds his back, in what position his arms and legs are, and even how the notebook lies on the table. All of this is important. The correct position of the child’s body when writing looks like this: the elbows are on the table, the back is straight, the feet rest on the floor, the legs are bent at the knees at a right angle. At the same time, the height of both the chair and the table should be comfortable for the baby.
Teach your child to write using recipe
It is known that the most beautiful handwriting in the world is Arabic calligraphy. It has been studied for years, continuously practicing and improving. Perhaps the letters of the alphabet are not so elegant, but their correct spelling also requires a long practice. To help your child learn writing, stock up on copybooks. A young student should always have before his eyes an example of how letters and syllables should ideally look.
If parents do not have the opportunity to buy special notebooks, then you can make a copy-book yourself. Take a piece of paper and carefully draw first simple shapes, and then letters. Let the kid hone his skills, drawing on the example of the handwriting of his mom or dad.
How to develop a beautiful handwriting for an adult?
Forming a beautiful legible handwriting in a child is not easy, but it is even more difficult to correct it in an adult. Many argue that this is impossible. But this, of course, is not so. You can retrain. This complex process requires patience and perseverance.
So, how to develop a beautiful handwriting? First you need to accustom yourself to accuracy. Prepare the workplace, remove all unnecessary, on the table should be only a notebook, pen and pencils. Sit at your workplace correctly. Straighten your back, put your elbows on the table, bend your knees and rest your feet on the floor. Put in front of you the items needed to complete the exercise. It can be copybooks or calligraphic samples. Do not forget that the ability to correctly hold a pencil in your hands largely determines whether you can develop a beautiful handwriting.
The alphabet and simple figures must be written with a pen, holding it with the thumb, middle and index finger at a distance of at least 1 cm from the surface of the paper. Slowly write the first letter. If necessary, take a copybook and focus on an example. Perform this exercise until the letter comes out beautifully automatically. It will take a lot of time, so be patient. Change ball pens periodically. So you can find the one with which it turns out to be more beautiful and easier to write. In the future, buy only such. Having learned to write one letter, go to the second, until you learn the whole alphabet. Further practice in syllables and words.
Little Tricks to Improve Handwriting
There are a few tricks that help you decide how to learn beautiful handwriting. First, you need to write slowly and accurately. And secondly, you need to train while studying writing not at the time of taking notes at meetings or lectures, but on verses of great poets. Yes, it is beautiful works that should inspire. Both the child and the adult will learn the spelling of words better if they rewrite the verses of classics, for example, Pushkin, Lermontov or Fet.
Another great exercise to help improve your handwriting is to decorate the pictures. Why not remember your childhood and start painting? It's so interesting and very useful. And how will your children be happy at the same time!
How to make beautiful handwriting quickly?
Can I learn to write beautifully in a short time? In general, it is not easy. But there is one little trick. To learn the letter better, ask your loved ones for help. Let them dictate some text to you. Dictations are very good at reinforcing writing skills. But the text should be dictated slowly and with arrangement. Do not rush. The main thing is to try to write down everything as beautifully as possible. After several days of such training, you will notice that the handwriting has improved significantly.
Handwriting characterization
According to the handwriting of a person, some character traits can be determined. Many psychologists for a long time studied the written lines of different people and came to very interesting conclusions. Strong pressure on the handle will produce an outgoing extrovert with good performance. But the weakly pressing ones are timid romantic natures. It can be both introverts and weak-willed individuals.
Take a close look at the slope of the letters. Balanced natures have none at all. They are difficult to get mad, and therefore they will have even lines. If there is a slight inclination to the right, then this is evidence that the person who wrote is calm and sociable. But if the lines go at a large angle, then you have a self-confident maximalist. Leaning to the left will betray critics and individualists.
Character traits can be predicted by the size of the letters in the written line. Sweeping handwriting matches creative people. But the owners of small letters are very thrifty and rational, sometimes even a little stingy. Good friendly people will be given out rounded letters. For optimists, lines always creep up, for pessimists - down. Egoists have angular letters.
In general, a person may know how to write in beautiful handwriting, but he will not be able to hide his lines behind the lines. Neatly drawn letters will show his character and give an idea of his personality.