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Children struggle to hold pens because of excessive use of iPads, claim experts
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 25 February 2018 6:35 PM | Telegraph Reporters

Posted on 02/27/2018 5:15:07 PM PST by Olog-hai

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

Pediatric doctors, handwriting experts and orthopedic 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 pediatric 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.”

A recent study in found that 58 percent of under-twos had used a tablet or mobile phone and many nurseries have installed interactive “smartboards”, digital cameras and touch-screen computers to try to expose children to gadgets at an early age. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dexterity; handwriting; ipads; penmanship
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To: Daniel Ramsey

61 posted on 02/27/2018 8:14:35 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Paladin2

Then there was pig latin....

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That’s it. Thanks.


62 posted on 02/27/2018 8:22:06 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Chickensoup

Lol That’s it. thanks.


63 posted on 02/27/2018 8:23:16 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nopardons

Yes, that’s it but as I remember it was the adults who used it on us kids. I do remember something about teenagers using it so the adults wouldn’t understand,


64 posted on 02/27/2018 8:25:15 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nopardons

Thanks for the clarification.


65 posted on 02/27/2018 8:25:57 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s a shame.


66 posted on 02/27/2018 8:27:00 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Our 2 year old granddaughter has yet to see a TV or iPad or other pixeled monitor. Well, there was the one time I unwittingly let her see something, nearly giving her mother a stroke. They are adamant that she not have any of those things until a certain age, not only for manual dexterity but for vision as well.

She has pails of chalk, crayons, markers, etc.and an easel. Worked for generations, clearly still does.


67 posted on 02/27/2018 8:27:40 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: laplata
My parents could speak it, but never used it. :-)

When I was a teen, there was something called "abbu dabbu", but I never really got the hang of it and the fad didn't last long; thankfully.

68 posted on 02/27/2018 8:31:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: laplata

You’re very welcome! :-)


69 posted on 02/27/2018 8:31:28 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Thanks. That abbu dabbu must be what I was thinking about.

I think parents spelling certain words so the little ones don’t understand is still popular.


70 posted on 02/27/2018 8:35:08 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pidgin


71 posted on 02/27/2018 8:35:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: joshua c

Working on clay tablets would be faster...


72 posted on 02/27/2018 8:38:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: laplata
That depends on your age; the "abbu dabbu" was a fad in the late '50s, Pig Latin was popular and much more widely known and used in the 1930s and '40s.

Yes, spelling is still used; however, kids DO soon catch on to it, the older they get.

73 posted on 02/27/2018 8:43:14 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Paladin2

Thank you.


74 posted on 02/27/2018 9:14:49 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nopardons

Right.


75 posted on 02/27/2018 9:15:41 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: EDINVA

That worked for us. No video games at all. No phones in the kids rooms (pre cell ubiquity). One family TV in the living room. One shared family computer in the living room until they went to college. They grew up playing sports, exploring the outdoors, riding horses, appreciating the wonders of nature, caring about animals. We all climbed Mt. Lassen a couple times and Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone together.

In 2018, oaur oldest daughter is hiking 200 miles of the John Muir Trail this summer including Mt. Whitney. Our middle daughter is hiking all over the Rockies with her dog. Our son just went camping at Big Sur and runs local hills with his buddies.

Keeping all that garbage away from kids does wonders.

In fact, when our son turned 18, we let him buy an XBox with his own money. He sold it about six months later because it was way too boring.


76 posted on 02/27/2018 9:19:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: laplata
:-)
77 posted on 02/27/2018 9:55:35 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
because supposedly EVERYONE would just use a typewriter.

Yeah, that's stupid. Like everyone will have a typewriter available all the time ...

78 posted on 02/28/2018 1:05:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: laplata

My handwriting has deteriorated significantly over the last ten years...I realized that I rarely ever use a pen any longer.


79 posted on 02/28/2018 3:13:53 AM PST by freepertoo
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To: PGR88

When I was a grade schooler in the 1950’s hand writing was taught as part of the curriculum.


80 posted on 02/28/2018 3:29:59 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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