Any time you give him paper and a crayon he's practicing writing by tuning his fine motor skills. I'm sure you do art, lace things and other fine motor activities so just tell mom you're working with getting him ready to write his name. I have quite a few friend who work as kindergarten or preschool teachers and one thing all of them has told me is that they don't care if a child knows how to write their name, say the abc's, count etc. Every one of them has told me that they would rather the child can follow instruction, take off their own coats, put on their own boots etc. They've all said that to many children they see are learning things out of order and its making it harder for them and their students.

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