I heard with my very own ears, a mother tell another parent (that's right, I was eavesdropping) about a conversation with her son's teacher, who said her son's penmanship needed to improve. She responded to the teacher by saying, "His handwriting doesn't matter because he is going to be a doctor and everyone knows they have bad handwriting." Ok lady, I am sure that your little genius is going to be a doctor with his natural attention to detail, especially if the respect that you show his teachers is taken into account. Maybe the mother is right and he will be a doctor. Prediction: Due to his poor penmanship his prescriptions will be illegible, causing a man to get birth control pills instead of his Viagra prescription because the pharmacist won't be able to read his writing either. (7,000 people a year die and another 1.5 million people are injured as a result of doctors' sloppy handwriting)Penmanship is important to me. I know that this is an area of interest that very few (normal) people care about. Children are taught to write in school but there is very little emphasis on penmanship. (one of my pet peeves) I know not everyone will have lovely penmanship and one person's chicken scratch is another's Spencerian script. An area of science that is interesting is handwriting analysis, how such seemingly small differences in handwriting are indicators of each writer's personality. I don't know how scientific it is but it is entertaining at the least.
There is a funny little website, tul.com, where you can do a mini handwriting analysis - all you need is a regular pen and paper. (it takes less than 5 minutes and there's nothing to mail or scan) My results revealed that I am a reliable, extroverted, matter of fact, fun and cold person. (fun and cold- the analysis is creepy in it's accuracy) In any case, it's a fun little time waster.
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