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No more bubble letters

An interesting AP piece explores the death of cursive handwriting. Now that kids use computers at a very young age (my 3 year-old is pretty comfortable with a keyboard), it seems that they aren't developing handwriting skills as well as they used to. Of course, this makes sense: it is pure substitution of one skill for another.

Personally, I find that the only thing I write using pen and paper these days are meeting notes and quick jots while I'm on the phone or working on something on the computer. On the rare occassions I have to write something out in longhand that needs to look good (like a thank you card or something), it is very hard for me to do.