Please Give me your thoughts

I personally think that you should do what you think will help your child learn. If that means typing out his work instead if writing it, then why not?

-Miranda

I agree with the above posters.  As an adult, he’ll probably do most correspondence by typing.  About cursive: I had a psychologist, an evaluator who tested my kids, tell me that learning cursive was not as important as learning to type.  We learned it anyway, but none of my kids (ages 12, 14, 15 & almost-17) uses it on a regular basis.  They type all the time, though. 

He needs to succeed and enjoy learning, if typing is easier for him then why not?  We are all typing here aren’t we?

Amy,

For something like this where it’s obvious that your child isn’t dawdling or not giving his full attention, I would absolutely let him go at his work on the keyboard. We are doing the same thing for ds9.5 who is having difficulty w/ his typing, but also hates dictation. He likes typing–even though he is slow. But he loathes dictation. When I gave him the option of typing his dictation, he got really excited about doing it! I see that as a win-win.

Although I can see the appeal of writing everything because it seems very old-fashioned (in a good way) and is most definitely what Charlotte would have had her students do (since typing wasn’t an option at all), I don’t see a problem w/ a modern-day child typing most of his work, from narrations to dictations or anything else. I realize that handwritten letters and cards are becoming obsolete, which is unfortunate since there is a certain charm to those things, but I don’t think us forcing our kids to handwrite everything is going to bring that type of thing back, ya know? And I think if it helps him (and you!) to be less frustrated with the work, then it’s totally worth it!