Hello. I have a five year old. I taught him handwriting quickly and efficiently because I think it's important. After tracing letters I bought Handwriting Without Tears second grade manuscript workbook. It gave him a small page to copy each day (look. there's samples). I liked it because it gave exact instructions on how to draw each letter so when he forgets I can tell him. It also demonstrated capitalization and pubctuation. It's not difficult to say, "do your writing" because the pages are really very little work to do to get it done and get good results. After doing most of the book my kid writes pretty effortlessly. It was worth it.
Rural too. My kid joined the soccer team twice and the t-ball team once because it's what there is to do. I also send him to school for something to do.
