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Here is something that should probably be in every school newsletter but isn’t: Handwriting and typing are not the same activity. They look similar from the outside — kid, surface, words appearing somewhere — but what’s happening in the brain during each one is genuinely, measurably different. And the difference matters more than most people […]

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Clean illustration of a child's hand writing carefully on cream stationery with a red pencil, warm light from a nearby window, on a wooden desk.

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"We started writing because we wanted to talk to other parents like us — parents trying to give their kids a slower kind of childhood, parents who think real letters still matter, parents who are figuring it out as they go. Some of the writing here is fiction. Some of it is mine. All of it is meant for you."


— Courtney


founder, MailDay



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