Little kids too tech-addled to hold a pencil these days
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After previous studies claimed that children who overuse mobile devices struggle learning to speak, a group of doctors are now saying young children in the digital generation can’t even hold a pen or pencil anymore.
“Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago,” pediatric occupational therapist Sally Payne told The Guardian. “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.”
The guy who sometimes works on my computer brags that he gave his older ipad to his 3 yr old son...I'd send him this link but what the heck, they are so addicted to tech.
After previous studies claimed that children who overuse mobile devices struggle learning to speak, a group of doctors are now saying young children in the digital generation can’t even hold a pen or pencil anymore.
“Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago,” pediatric occupational therapist Sally Payne told The Guardian. “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.”
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I'm kind of struggling with this. If a child enters kinder never having held a crayon or pencil, that's on the parents. And that's what they're describing here - children who grab it like an ice pick or something, and don't even know what to do with a writing instrument.
These children, who have never held a crayon or pencil are in the same category of abject parental neglect as kids were 10, 20, 30, 40, 100 years ago where parents didn't offer coloring and drawing time to their preschoolers.
If this is true, it isn't the fault of technology, in my opinion. It's parental neglect. I was painting, scribbling and coloring with crayons before I entered kindergarten.
The animal kingdom takes better care of their offspring than humans.
The guy who sometimes works on my computer brags that he gave his older ipad to his 3 yr old son...I'd send him this link but what the heck, they are so addicted to tech.
Even Bill Gates realizes this isn't a good idea...at least for his own kids:
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