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 compared to ...

If you think about it, parenting is one long, never-ending checklist. Teach them how to walk? Check. Teach them how to use the potty? Check. Teach them how to write? Well … it’s a work in progress.

If you think about it, parenting is one long, never-ending checklist. Teach them how to walk? Check. Teach them say "Please" and "Thank you"? Check (most of the time). Teach them how to write? Well … ...

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As your child prepares to start school, it’s important that they develop their fine motor skills to be able to hold pencils properly. How can parents help them with holding pens?

Children in the UK are using technology so much that their hand muscles are not developing properly, meaning they are struggling to hold pencils, senior paediatric doctors have said. The overuse of ...

— -- 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 ...

While the COVID-19 crisis is in the rearview mirror for many Americans, young children are still in the thick of it. Many children who were born on the eve of the pandemic entered preschool or ...

I recently attended a kindergarten orientation meeting, where—to my relief—the principal said there are only two things parents need to do to get a kid ready for school: 1) Keep reading to your kid. 2 ...