Responding to handwriting tag!

I don't like writing by hand - I even type my shopping lists! It's not that my handwriting is too bad, but because I usually make too many mistakes and then I have to cross out...! If I have to write anything by hand for Tamerin (other than a list of her homework in her homework diary) I write with pencil, so that I can at least rub out my mistakes.
I don't normally hold my pen correctly, and had to force myself to do it while I was still teaching pre-school. A teacher must (darem) set an example! I cannot write fast and neatly, but Jan can. He writes longhand and it is always very neat and correct! He holds his pen in the correct way - he must have had a better Grade 1 teacher than I had! (Come to think of it, in Grade 1 he was homeschooled by his aunt on the farm!)
When I started teaching, I made placards for the classroom using coins as stencils. I was very chuffed with my efforts - but they were big efforts nonetheless! Today's teachers just use the Grade 1 font!