For years I have stubbornly refused to give age norms for the development of scissor skills milestones. This is because I firmly believe that following and mastering each developmental sequence is way more important than the age at which they …
Cutting assists children to develop their fine motor hand muscles for pencil control and handwriting. I believe it to be one of the most valuable pre-writing skills we have. The cutting motion develops the exact muscles and movement patterns we …
Cutting is the bomb for developing pencil grip and pencil control for handwriting. If we can get our children to both master and enjoy cutting, we will go a long way to establishing the muscle and motor foundations for pencil …
If we want our children to improve their fine motor skills and pencil control for handwriting, they have to be on board. We cannot do it to them. We cannot “fix” the foundation skills for handwriting for them. They have …
We pay a huge amount of attention to pencil grip and how to teach our children to hold the pencil correctly. But when it comes to cutting, we tend not to give as much attention to how to hold scissors. …
Cutting and scissor skills are one of the critical prewriting skills on account of the muscles they develop. The muscles we use for opening and closing the scissors are the ones that are responsible for manipulating the pencil. With this …
When our babies begin exploring they tend to use both hands, or randomly use either the left or right hand. Hand preference may begin to emerge as early as 2 or 3 years of age, while for others, this may …
Every teacher and every therapist has encountered a left handed child. If you aren’t left handed yourself, you may wonder how to help and advise parents. You want to ensure they end up with a well adjusted left hander, who …
From time to time we hear of children who are ambidextrous. This seems such an amazing thing! Imagine being able to write with both hands! Does it matter if a child hasn’t established a hand preference or hand dominance? Is …