Typing Lessons On-line.

Remember those old Brother typewriters and the clack-clack-clack of the typebars striking the paper? No? I must be getting old. :)

While typewriters have gone the way of rotary phones, typing is still a skill we all need. Okay, so maybe someday we'll be working strictly off voice-recognition software, a thought I find rather depressing, but for now, it's not a bad idea at all to start teaching your child proper typing.

THIS WEBSITE offers free typing lessons that even older elementary children can follow. My nine-year-old daughter has been working her way through the lessons and her speed has improved dramatically.

If you follow a traditional school-year calendar, perhaps you might even want to consider working through the typing lessons over the summer, in preparation of the new school year.