Christine Rosen

But that is actually the building block for later being able to be expressive with your writing.

Just like anyone who's an accomplished painter will tell you they have to first learn to do the basic forms and the shadowing.

So we should think about that with our handwriting, and it's why we should practice.

And I think it's great that many schools are bringing back teaching handwriting.

But I think it is your parents were exactly right because they understood that your handwriting is a reflection of who you are in the world and you'll be judged by it.

And so that's one of the things where a lot of kids these days when they the most interesting anecdote I have come across in my research were bakeries like at supermarkets having problems hiring people to be bakers because none of the people they hired knew how to write a happy birthday message in cursive to make it look nice on a cake.

Wow.

So they had to teach them cursive so they could decorate the cake.

So yeah, it's great.

I think we need the basics, though, in order to then later have a more expressive form of handwriting.

Change is normal.

This is the great question, and it's each age has to ask it again for itself.

So I think, look, I don't want to go back to—you can pry my washing machine out of my cold, dead hands.

Like, that technology is here to stay.

And, you know, look, I use digital streaming music.

We use our computers every day for work.

I wouldn't want to go back.

But I think the challenge now is—

is that we have to actively carve out those analog moments.

We have to make the effort and we have to relearn lessons about what we should value in daily life.