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.

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 ...

Talking about pencil grips may seem quaint now that we’re all nimbly texting and completing our patient forms and job applications online. But there are still plenty of settings — school among them — ...

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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 ...

Which pencil grip is best? Pencil grips are small attachments that help people grasp and use pencils easily, properly and with comfort. Writing by hand is an important fine motor skill and when ...

Kids are having trouble holding a pencil properly because of too much exposure to technology, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by the Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust, found an overuse ...

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 … ...

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 ...