The Newest Battle

One problem with Cassidy and kindergarten is that she refuses to write or draw or anything that involves putting pencil/crayon to paper. She will freely paint. Anyway, I have made it my newest battle to MAKE her write. She can now spell the words red, blue, green, yellow and purple. She can also recognize them and read them. Now I am teaching her to WRITE them. She gets so angry when I ask her to try.

Friday night we had a one-hour stand off where I would not stop insisting that she write the word "red". She wouldn't do it unless I was holding on to her hand. I finally got tired and gave up. The next morning she came to me unprompted with her notebook and said, "write red". She then wrote the word red on the paper in red crayon.

She has been at least trying to write since. I noticed an attempt to write "green" in her notebook yesterday. I think that becoming comfortable with writing will help her so much in school. How can she move on if she won't pick up a pencil/crayon?