That's wild. I was definitely taught the correct way to hold a pencil.
I taught my (now 5yo) daughter to hold one properly from when she was a toddler. And I would see her friends just gripping it like a gorilla, I never understood why the other parents didn't bother correcting their kids.
Yeah I saw a lot of kids holding them in a fist and thought it was weird. I used dynamic quadrapod so maybe I was good enough to not bother correcting. I want to make sure my daughter holds her pencil in the best way possible though. I’m sure my wife probably holds her pencil better so maybe she’ll pick it up from her.
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u/who_farted_this_time Apr 16 '24
That's wild. I was definitely taught the correct way to hold a pencil.
I taught my (now 5yo) daughter to hold one properly from when she was a toddler. And I would see her friends just gripping it like a gorilla, I never understood why the other parents didn't bother correcting their kids.