When thinking about teaching a child to write, often we only think about teaching children how to grip a pencil correctly and form the letters in the right way.
However, in order to hold a pencil easily, children first need to have strong hand and arm muscles too, particularly strong wrists, so that they can move the pencil around easily as they write.
If children are made to hold a pencil or pen when their arms and hands are not strong enough to support their writing actions, then this can cause them to hold pencils awkwardly and incorrectly resulting in writing problems later on.
Help to strengthen your child’s hand and arm muscles before they start learning to write by encouraging them to climb stairs, use climbing frames in the playground, grip monkey bars, crawl around under and over things and also knead play dough or pastry to develop and strengthen their wrist muscles and shoulder muscles too.
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