Sometimes you need to stop spending so much time and energy to fix something that can not be fixed (it really gets demoralizing for the dysgraphic child) and simply remove the obstacle.
ITA... plus I also think that it's ok even with things that *can* be fixed to let go of them for a time when they are causing a ton of frustration. Not being able to write at 6 doesn't mean he's not going to be able to write at 16 or at 26. (Unless of course it really is dysgraphia or some other physically limiting disability).
It also might help, next time you're at school, to take a look around at the other student's writing samples. Chances are that there are a lot of first grade writing samples that don't look all that great - we were still having a tough time in 4th grade convincing ds' teachers that he was dysgraphic simply because there were so many other totally neurotypical students who hadn't yet developed neat orderly legible penmanship. The difference was - they were improving with time and had the capability to keep improving without physical or neurological barriers. But if you looked just at writing samples, there were usually a few even worse looking than our ds'. These kids (ds' age) are all aging out of middle school now, and most of them have absolutely legible passable mostly very nice-looking handwriting
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