I'm currently using Cursive First with my 7 year old and (slowly) with my 5 year old. My favorite thing about it ,besides the price tag, is that all of the lower case letters start on the baseline, so learning to connect the letters is really simple. I also like that it's pretty basic. Not a lot of loops or fancy swirls. I figure they can add that stuff as they get older, if they want to. As far as being able to remember how to form the letters, it teaches individual strokes, such as short uphill stroke, clockface stroke, connector stroke, then the strokes are combined to make the letters. Both of mine have done very well remembering what they've learned, and it's easy to prompt them with the correct stroke if they forget.