However, I have always thought that I hold the pencil ‘wrong’ based on what I was told as a child. I have never had any problems (even as an adult) with my hand cramping–even on VERY long essay tests. Eventually even the school’s “specialist” gave up on me, and just allowed me to continue writting that way since I didn’t seem to be having a problem forming letters properly. Although my handwritting was very neat even back then, they were worried that I wasn’t holding the pencil like most people do. LOL In kindergarten I had MANY, MANY, MANY teachers try to correct my grip. I have people comment that my handwritting looks like a computer font it is so neat. I hold my pencil that way, and I actually have extremely nice handwritting if I do say so myself. I hope the explanation is clear…kind of hard to explain and much easier to watch. Just make sure the pony-tail holder is a large one so that it is not too tight on his wrist. After about two weeks I did not have to use the pony-tail holder anymore as it conditioned his hand to hold the pencil properly. The pencil popped into his hand at just the right position. Anyway, a friend of mine is an occupational therapist and she showed me a trick - she pulled a pony-tail holder on my son’s wrist, handed my son the pencil, twisted the pony-tail holder above the wrist, and put the pencil thru the hoop that the pony-tail holder created. I was having problems with my 6 year-old last year and the way he was holding his pencil also (he’s a leftie and I just couldn’t get him to hold his pencil properly). It wasn’t too much of a problem until we started formal writing lessons and that’s when he started complaining that his hand hurt. I posted on this topic a few weeks ago as I also had a lefty who had problems gripping his pencil correctly.
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