— -- Perhaps the toughest thing about entering kindergarten is learning how to hold that darned pencil. On Thursday, Dixon Ticonderoga, the nation's biggest pencil maker, will unveil a pencil ...

Ask anyone how many ways there are to hold a pencil and they'll probably say one way – their way. But as a viral image has revealed on Twitter (sorry, X) recently, there are actually at least nine.

Learning how to properly hold a pencil is an important life skill, but it’s also not particularly intuitive, especially as the size of a young child’s hand seems so disproportionate when compared to ...

Getting a perfect measurement is rule number one when you're making pretty much anything, but it's easy to get a little lazy about it and just quickly draw out a line without thinking too much. Over ...

In this episode of the show I talked with you about the importance of our hands in our creative lives; it’s significant. The ...

Children in the UK are using technology so much that their hand muscles are not developing properly, meaning they are struggling to hold pencils, senior paediatric doctors have said. The overuse of ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Children are coming into school struggling to hold a pencil due to the use of touch screens, according to The Guardian. Now more than ever before, The Guardian says that parents are ...

Toddlers these days are barely out of nappies before they are playing with touch-screen toys and fiddling with iPads. And now, it seems, they are paying the price — because when they arrive at nursery ...