I have been working with my daughter to teach her to write her name and had really been struggling with it. I found some info that I wanted to share with anyone else that might be struggling. http://www.quickstartreading.com/steps2.html ... I followed the plan that this site gives and had her writing her first and last name within a week!

My son has been tracing his name at preschool for a year now but is not able to write it without doted lines to guide him. Thank you for the web site suggestion.

Name writing time can be anywhere any place any litlle age when they can hold the pencil.And it can be such a FUN activity!!!   tracing and gluing shells , Painting the names   possabilities ENDLESS

I can't get to the site it tells me not there!!

Does anyone have a new site for this? this one is gone and such a great topic    TY for sharing   ALL

the link is broken.... but you can cut and paste that worked for me

Kid's often learn by example and copying.  Also, they love things that they don't usually get to touch or do.

Although Tiffany is too young to learn to write her name, at 10 months old, we have taught her so many things by actually doing it and/or making it a fun event.

My husband taught her to crawl by crawling like a baby and playing with her at the same time.  He also taught her to eat like there's no tomorrow, by always eating at the same time I would feed her, and by acting like he was enjoying eating more than anything.

In the future, if I struggle with teaching Tiffany to write, I will let her write with my old lipsticks and buy her some bath paint to write on the bath walls.  I will also write with her and make it mommy and baby fun time.  As she usually does, she'll probably copy me, because she likes doing what grown ups do and always wants to do what appears to be fun.

Another crazy thing I do is put different things at the top of our stairs and have Tiffany crawl to the top of the stairs to get to play with something novel.  [A little motivation can get a baby to do just about anyrhing]  I usually have her climbing a flight of stairs about 10 to 15 times per day - great exercise and physical dexterity development at 10 months.  She also naps and sleeps well with all that physical exertion!  [Note:  I or my husband ALWAYS supervises her while she climbs the stairs.  Babies should never be on stairs without constant supervision.]

Generally, fun, creativity, and novelty gets kids going and doing whatever you want them to do.

Have fun!     Devi

i have to say this in return to tiffsmoms comment... all of her ideaswere great...lipstick great idea love it!

just so every one is aware there is a difference between not wanting to write which all of the ideas above would be great to help coax them on...

but for a child havingdifficultiesit may be more of an issue with learninginformation...i myself had a learning disablity in elemanteryschool. It took alot of hard work and lots of frustration to learn to write.

i learn by feeling.... i learned writting by my teacher utting paint into a plasticgallon ziplock and i  would press my letters into the paint with my finger...

i worked at a preschool for sevral yrs beformy children came along anddicovered that their are many different ways children learn... some by sight some byhearing others by touch....i only ever had a few children who struggeled and i worked with them non stop to try and figure out what would be the best way for them to grasp the concept.

so moral of my lil post is if your child is just notwanting to do it get creative if your child is having difficulties than try and figure out what would work best for them.... sightlearners my only need to be shown.... sound learners may need you to say make the letter a (circle and a stick) b (long stick witha belly)things lik that.... touch learners may need you to do thepaint thing or lay some sand on the tabel... flour..... really anything that has texture to it.... hope this has been helpful

 

 

i tryed the site but it's not there.

Wow what memories.  I remember my mother would make sheets with dotted lines I could follow so I can learn to write my name, alphabets, and numbers.  She also did it in cursive.  I was writing in cursive by the 1st grade.  Ofcourse it looked neater by time I got to the 3rd grade.

I think that all children learn at a different rate.  My eldest daughter was writing her name after the first week of preschool shortly after she turned 4.  Both of my boys, if memory serves me correctly, were writing their names in kindergarten with great ease.  My youngest has been the quickest to pick it up, probably because she has so many role models and was writing her name when she was 3 years old. 

Teaching tools are great resources and can help give us as parents fun and interesting ways of teaching our children so that they are still having fun while learning.

My 3 year old son started learning how to write last April and now he can write his whole name without the dotted lines guide. What we did was to practice him everyday by tracing the dotted lines three times. Until I saw him take home a paper from school where he wrote his name without the dotted lines.

Just the other day my daughter and I were looking at some papers from when she was learing to write.  We were looking at a paper full of D's, she said "boy I really didn't know how to write huh?"  All of her D's had big bellys ( that's what we called the curve of the D).  I told her no, you just wanted them to have really big bellys.  We used a lot of humor when we were learing how to write.  We associated each letter to some kind of picture, like the A was a pointy house, the C was an ear, the D ate too much and had a big belly and so on.  It was fun and it always got us laughing and the letter usually got exagerated but it kept her writing and it didn't matter at first if it was just right or not.  Good luck and make it fun.  Learning should always be fun!

Okay, I just realized this post is from 2 years ago!  Oh well, maybe someone can use some advice now.

The only way I have been teaching my four year old to write is by leting him trace. Now he says he has homework to do, lol, and starts writting his name and other alphabet letters he remembers.