Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say

Funny, I was just having a conversation with a co-worker the other day about the tech that children nowadays are growing up with and how some basic skills are fading away. A major knock-out of what drives all this techy stuff will leave some unable to cope with anything.

Not just the wee 'uns these days. I'm on the keyboard so much that when I try to write these days it's so messy that it looks like I've fallen back to Grade Three skills. I actually forgot for a while how to write a cursive "k".

Same here. My handwriting was always doctor like, it�s only gotten worse the less I actually write. It�s a skill like anything else. Use it or lose it.

I tried doing some practice writing to see if it would come back. It didn't.

This is becoming the norm for the average person who's become a slave to technology.

They don't bother teaching cursive anymore in the schools, but what is more insidious than the loss of manual dexterity is how attention spans have deteriorated in kids....and younger adults. It pisses me off to no end when I go into a coffee shop or restaurant and there's a table full of assholes staring at their phones and not even trying to converse with each other. I've actually had to tell guests that come to our house that their phones aren't allowed at the dinner table.

They don't HAVE to teach cursive, but good teachers still do.

Our kids teacher does, I made sure to ask. Otherwise I would have been teaching them at home.

Don't know who the idiot was that removed cursive from the curriculum. Maybe you won't have to write as much, but you'll still need to know how to READ it!

It's code for adults...write in cursive and only we can understand it.

Goddamn secret runes.

"Basic skills" are relative to the era we live in. Cursive writing is just an example of an outdated form of writing that we've moved beyond.

We have to stop sounding like grumpy old men, as technology is a good thing.

Good teachers teach what's current, not a style of writing their grandmother uses to write letters.

Technology is meant to enhance our lives, not intrude on or replace it.

If your Pad can't read cursive, then it's deficient.

And God himself can't read Russian cursive!

Good teachers teach what's current, not a style of writing their grandmother uses to write letters.
My kids will grow up knowing how to read cursive.

Your kids will work for them.

Good teachers teach what's current, not a style of writing their grandmother uses to write letters.
My kids will grow up knowing how to read cursive.

Your kids will work for them.



Yea, I'm sure that skill will be at the top of their resume.