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The Easiest Way to Teach Your Kid to Hold a Pencil

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 the length of a fresh pencil. It’s tempting for them to wrap their whole fist around the thing or attempt to wield it by holding it too high up, neither of which are methods we want to encourage. But o