I’ve been practicing the ABCs and 123s with my son and notice that certain letters (J N P S Z) and numbers (4 6) he always writes backwards/mirror imaged. I’ve seen other kids, and even my own writings as a child, have the same quirk. Is this pretty much universal?
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I think it’s due to being brand new at it. Kind of like a new 15-16 year old new driver over-steering in a car, or hitting the brakes to hard, even though writing is now old-hat for them. Young kids don’t have the muscle memory nor experience to *make* them write a direction-sensitive letter or number correctly. They have to think about each letter every time, and make up new rules in their heads to help them remember. With 26 new symbols and 10 numbers to learn, there’s a lot to remember for a kid. Fortunately it only takes a grade or two to get that all sorted out.
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