Learning also happens through writing

Learning also comes through writing, and for the latter to be an 'enjoyable activity the child needs to develop a proper or rather functional pencil grip( see photo).

What does this mean? Simply that he should be able to write without getting tired or feeling pain. If this happens, in a cognitively normal child,it may indicate difficulties with coordination,dissociation or integration of body segments. It can also sometimes affect the eyes in what is the coordination of the latter with the hand: in short, behind an apparently simple activity can hide an insidious world that needs a thorough look to be brought into focus and not just a few informative lines.

What I find important to do here, however, is to disclose how, for example, the number of children with these difficulties is increasing and why this is happening: it emerges that the children of the 'technological age, who from an early age are put in front of electronic devices and thus exposed to passive entertainment, have reduced interaction, and therefore also manipulation, with their 'surroundings (not to mention the long-term damage on the brain and social skills that the use/abuse of these devices entails).

We can observe this phenomenon, albeit on a smaller scale at the level of side effects, in some children of the 1980s, weaned on bread, sugar and HOURS of TV: they are the adults today who are clumsy in attaching a button, hanging a picture or repairing an object. So if since the 80s we have established how harmful sugar is, (so much so that it is categorically banned in weaning), it is time now to understand what is now evidence,and then regulate the 'use of devices to protect the health of future generations ... also because the risk of current generations, is not only to be clumsy in manual jobs, but to lose the “opposable thumb” that great achievement that should make us the 'EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES.

In the meantime this happens,off the phones from the children and let's learn to spend our hands with and like them!©️