Pencil Holding

[missbluey]

my coming 4yrs son also have problem holding his pencil. same like TS's case, mine has short attention span. he can put his head on the table when he was trying to write. :roll:

sometimes he only write a few before starting to play with his toys.

at times, i can find him singing nursery rhymes. & his mandarin is improving quite a bit. usually we speak english @ home.

but hor, i find that he is quite shy to strangers.

[Vevey]

These articles might help:

http://www.lyra-groove.com/htmdocs/how_grasping.asp

Not nec to use a Groove pencil though.

[sushigal]

The fingers and hand muscle has not fully developed yet.


Please mothers, don’t worry.

Please don’t expect too much from our child. They just came to the world 3-5 years ago. Not like us, half of our life on earth already.

Happened to my girl too! Cannot write and hold properly. Now P1 very nice hand writing.

Relax, Mothers!

[cherrygal]

Yup, agree. Just relax. My leftie son can write very nicely too. The trick is to turn the paper at an angle. His only challenge is counting chinese strokes coz the combination strokes are meant for righthanders.

[Vevey]

cherrygal:

Yup, agree. Just relax. My leftie son can write very nicely too. The trick is to turn the paper at an angle. His only challenge is counting chinese strokes coz the combination strokes are meant for righthanders.

DS1 & I r leftie too.
No problem w counting chinese stroke, as still hv to write from left to right mah. :scratchhead:

[cherrygal]

Vevey:

cherrygal:

Yup, agree. Just relax. My leftie son can write very nicely too. The trick is to turn the paper at an angle. His only challenge is counting chinese strokes coz the combination strokes are meant for righthanders.

DS1 & I r leftie too.
No problem w counting chinese stroke, as still hv to write from left to right mah. :scratchhead:

No problem with writing whole words from left to right but the problem is with combination strokes when counting bihua (数笔画）. Some strokes are 2 strokes for righthanders while lefties can actually do that same stroke in 1 stroke due to their flow. For eg. 颜 - the 厂 part can be done in 1 stroke for lefties. He's still young lah, got to learn. Other than that, no issues.

[Vevey]

cherrygal:

Vevey:

[quote=\"cherrygal\"]Yup, agree. Just relax. My leftie son can write very nicely too. The trick is to turn the paper at an angle. His only challenge is counting chinese strokes coz the combination strokes are meant for righthanders.

DS1 & I r leftie too.
No problem w counting chinese stroke, as still hv to write from left to right mah. :scratchhead:

No problem with writing whole words from left to right but the problem is with combination strokes when counting bihua (数笔画）. Some strokes are 2 strokes for righthanders while lefties can actually do that same stroke in 1 stroke due to their flow. For eg. 颜 - the 厂 part can be done in 1 stroke for lefties. He's still young lah, got to learn. Other than that, no issues.[/quote]Oh, must teach him to always start e strokes from left to right.

[larkspur]

hi,


my son going 5 years old has no problem in holding pencil and can trace the dotted line BUT if you ask him to write the alphabet on a paper with no dotted line, he cant even know where to start even though he might have traced the same alphbet for days. even when we show him how to write or draw an inverted "u", he can only write l . It seems like mentally he is scared of writing. My hubby and i are worried that mentally he is rejecting writing. Is there anyone who can help or recommend a doctor or some therapy that i need to send him too? My son practically do not know how to write at all any alphabet and it is quite worrying though he can read very well

[markjosephine1971]

cherrygal:

Vevey:

[quote=\"cherrygal\"]Yup, agree. Just relax. My leftie son can write very nicely too. The trick is to turn the paper at an angle. His only challenge is counting chinese strokes coz the combination strokes are meant for righthanders.

DS1 & I r leftie too.
No problem w counting chinese stroke, as still hv to write from left to right mah. :scratchhead:

No problem with writing whole words from left to right but the problem is with combination strokes when counting bihua (数笔画）. Some strokes are 2 strokes for righthanders while lefties can actually do that same stroke in 1 stroke due to their flow. For eg. 颜 - the 厂 part can be done in 1 stroke for lefties. He's still young lah, got to learn. Other than that, no issues.[/quote]Actually when teaching chinese stroke 'heng'. It is always write from left to right. Inregardless left or right handed. My eldest is left handed and I teach to write 'heng' from left to right. So should not be a problem for counting bihua. But she is now in secondary school so doesn't matter about bihua anymore, she will write from right to left for 'heng'.

[markjosephine1971]

larkspur:

hi,


my son going 5 years old has no problem in holding pencil and can trace the dotted line BUT if you ask him to write the alphabet on a paper with no dotted line, he cant even know where to start even though he might have traced the same alphbet for days. even when we show him how to write or draw an inverted \"u\", he can only write l . It seems like mentally he is scared of writing. My hubby and i are worried that mentally he is rejecting writing. Is there anyone who can help or recommend a doctor or some therapy that i need to send him too? My son practically do not know how to write at all any alphabet and it is quite worrying though he can read very well

Not to worry so much. Just make sure that he is very familiar with all the 26 letters, Upper and lower case. For my son is 4 year and 2 months, I don teach him to write. He will be able to trace without problem. When he is very familiar with the letter he will write according to what he remember. I only need to teach him the correct strock.