"""One of the reasons we formally teach handwriting to young children is that you don’t want a bottleneck between the ideas they’re forming and the writing. """

"""One of the reasons we formally teach handwriting to young children is that you don’t want a bottleneck between the ideas they’re forming and the writing. """ Talking with my son's teachers and pediatricians, one big reason that early classes emphasize writing is not just about literacy, but rather about developing hand muscles.