151; -- Perhaps the toughest thing about entering kindergarten is learning how to hold that darned pencil. On Thursday, Dixon Ticonderoga, the nation's biggest pencil maker, will unveil a pencil ...

(In case you’re wondering, the “dynamic tripod grasp” is the ideal hold—the pencil is held between the tips of the thumb and index finger as it rests on the middle finger.) If your child ...

Many children who were born on the eve of the pandemic entered preschool or kindergarten in the last couple of years without skills that were long considered basic — such as holding a pencil or ...

However, there might not be a "correct" way of holding a pencil anyway. When was the last time you physically wrote something down? If you're anything like the millennials I know, you might ...