My son started learning cursive just a couple of months ago.  I used a $.99 ebook from Scholastic (Cursive Success) to teach him... my daughter learned with Handwriting Without Tears, but she had learned to write quite poorly in public school, so there was some remediation to do.

Cursive is a skill I feel is important for my children to know, and to know WELL.   It is an ART that is being lost.   

GMan picked up on cursive so well - and to my delight and surprise he wanted to write everything in cursive and he wanted to write all of the time!   He's also a lefty, and I had heard these children have a more difficult time.   Not this guy....