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1 posted on 02/27/2018 5:15:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
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If you tried to take crayons, colored pencils and sidewalk chalk from 2 preschoolers in my family you’d have a war on your hands.

Idiot parents, nothing more.


2 posted on 02/27/2018 5:19:31 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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Recently came across a letter, written by my grandmother as a young woman in the 1920s. Her handwriting was simply beautiful.

She wasn’t a particularly highly educated person, and I imagine many people wrote similarly well, because it was a focus of basic education 100 years ago.

Perhaps its simply not a necessary skill now.


3 posted on 02/27/2018 5:22:01 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai; Tax-chick
A recent study in found that 58 percent of under-twos had used a tablet or mobile phone...

To do what, exactly?

4 posted on 02/27/2018 5:22:52 PM PST by Ezekiel ( All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Growing up in the 50’s, even today, I have a large callus on my right middle finger from years of holding pencils and pens.


18 posted on 02/27/2018 5:50:13 PM PST by llevrok (DACA = Democrats Against Citizen Americans)
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I have very little reason to write by hand and notice if all I do is write the occasional check or list, my handwriting goes downhill pretty quickly.


19 posted on 02/27/2018 5:52:06 PM PST by GnuThere
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What Text Neck looks like...


25 posted on 02/27/2018 6:11:52 PM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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I actually do have 9th graders who can’t seem to use scissors. I stare at them like... Mars? Venus?


26 posted on 02/27/2018 6:13:07 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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No kidding...In a few more years, even adults won’t be able to pick up a pen and write anything... No one saw this coming?


27 posted on 02/27/2018 6:13:48 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Olog-hai

It’s not just the tots. I’m finding the same thing and my once-awful handwriting is getting worse by the day. My 97 year old uncle still has beautiful handwriting!


28 posted on 02/27/2018 6:14:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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THIS JUST IN!

Children have lost the ability to chisel stone tablets since the invention of pen and paper.


31 posted on 02/27/2018 6:17:31 PM PST by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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Not seeing this in my house. My neurotypical kids have great fine and gross motor control even after growing up with gameboys or iPads. Calling BS.


46 posted on 02/27/2018 6:54:03 PM PST by Yaelle
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Give them cell phones with rotary dials.


60 posted on 02/27/2018 8:06:31 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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