Have your kid place their writing hand in the sock, slipping their pointer finger through one hole and their thumb through the other. Here’s a video from Sara McClure of the blog Happy Brown House.

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 ...

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 (shorter ...

Mumbai resident Shweta Singh's experience of receiving pencil sharpeners designed specially for left-handed children from Hindustan Pencils has touched many and gone massively viral on Facebook.

Overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children's finger muscles from developing so they can properly hold a pencil says a new report.

Children struggle to hold and use pencils due to excessive use of touchscreen phones and tablets such as iPads, experts claimed. Overusing Devices Affects Development Of Muscles Needed For Holding ...

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 ...

Children are increasingly finding it hard to hold pens and pencils because of an excessive use of technology, senior pediatric doctors have warned. An overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is ...

(WYTV)-We have to go back to ancient Rome to find the first pencils, although they’re not what we use today. Back then, you wrote with a thin, metal rod called a stylus, made of lead. Today we still ...

Kids are finding it increasingly challenging to hold a pencil because they spend most of their time on digital devices, some pediatricians have warned. It can be jarring to see a toddler ...

Children are so used to playing on smartphones and tablets that they are struggling use pencils, experts have warned. While children are adept at swiping at a screen, they no longer have the hand ...