Writing

You can lead a horse to water. And you can give a child a pencil. The result is the same. What happens next is out of your hands. Around the time of her fifth birthday, my youngest daughter created a menu for her ‘café’. Not bad. She had to check some of the spellings with […]

Does your child have a corner all to herself where she can go and write? She may only be a toddler whose mark-making consists of little more than a few horizontal sweeps of a chunky crayon. Or she may be a confident seven-year-old, writing stories and and cards, joining letters with confidence and precision. It