If your child is struggling to hold a pencil correctly, Sari Ockner, an occupational therapist at Kidz Occupational Therapy, recommends getting your child to use smaller pieces of pencil ...

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1) Keep reading to your kid. 2) Make sure they have a good pencil grip. No. 2 surprised people—the pencil grip isn’t something a lot of adults think about.

Learning how to properly hold a pencil is an important life skill, but it’s also not particularly intuitive, especially as the size of a young child’s hand seems so disproportionate when ...

"Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not be able to hold it because they don’t have the fundamental movement skills," she said.

Generation of iPad children who cannot hold a pencil: Playing with touch-screen devices means youngsters are struggling to learn basic motor skills. More children are struggling to use pencils, ...

They do spend some time on other skills, like holding a pencil. They strengthen children’s hands by playing with Play-Doh. “But first we have to get through the social-emotional so we can get ...

The children born during the COVID-19 shutdown are now entering preschool and kindergarten unable to hold a pencil or sit still for story time.

Thousands of children in Norfolk could start school this month without knowing basic skills such as how to hold a pencil or go to the toilet by… Public notices Newsletters ...