Reluctant Writer

[Patience]

Toward the second half of the year with copywork, I began to notice (hard not to notice, actually) that my 7 year old son began to take quite along time to do his copywork. At times I became frustrated with him as I saw he would begin to just talk and avoid doing it, and sometimes take 20 minutes. I would often need to do alot of reminding if there was writing involved (really that was primarily copywork last year). I have asked him to journal 2 sentences a day, when possible, this summer, and that reluctancy (and I think a bit of laziness too) is coming out some more. I am seeing that we will have the same problem next year unless his dexterity or something else changed. Is there some way I should be helping this or should be thinking about this? How can I help him/ prepare him for next year? There will be more writing with Bigger and Rod and Staff 2. I want us to set good habits in place, for both teacher and student. Any and all thoughts are welcome!

[Patience]

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