how often do you write with a pencil or pen these days? are you holding your writing utensil correctly? do kids even learn how to write in cursive in school these days? i remember learning the letters in cursive in second grade. i wanted to write my name at the top of my assignments in cursive, but i wasnt allowed to, even though i knew how, until we officially learned all the letters in our names together in class. it felt to me like it took ages until we finally learned the cursive "n."