Experts say - Kids can't hold pencils because of excessive iPad use!!!

[ShootSpeeders]

Is this so bad.? I imagine when cars came along adults complained that kids no longer know how to ride a horse.

Children struggle to hold pens because of excessive use of iPads, claim experts

feb 25 2018 Children are struggling to use and pencils because the excessive use of touchscreen phones and iPads is damaging their dexterity, specialists have claimed.

Paediatric doctors, handwriting experts and orthopaedic therapists are warning that although youngsters can swipe a screen, they no longer have the hand strength and agility to learn to write correctly when they start school.

Increasingly the use of digital screens is replacing traditional skills such as drawing, painting and cutting out which boost fine motor skills and coordination.

“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,” Sally Payne, the head paediatric occupational therapist at the Heart of England foundation NHS Trust, told The Guardian newspaper.

“To be able to grip a pencil and move it, you need strong control of the fine muscles in your fingers. Children need lots of opportunity to develop those skills.”

 

[BulletProof]

I often hear people lament schools not teaching cursive, but kids have no use for cursive, other than a signature.

 

[fncceo]

There must be an app to help kids learn to hold a pencil.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I often hear people lament schools not teaching cursive, but kids have no use for cursive, other than a signature.

It's a discipline, something lacking in public schools.

 

[Yarddog]

So what we are witnessing here is the de-evolution of the opposing thumb! in the future man will only need to touch a screen as his world revolves around him. Thanks Apple!

 

[MikeK]

I was sometimes complimented for what once was a clear and precise but rather ornately improvised blend of simple cursive and near draftsman-quality hand-lettering. But years of keyboarding has put an end to it. It just occurs to me how little use I now have for pencils and pens.