What opens up the gap between children's interest and ability to learn? Many parents may say: attention, smart mind or learning attitude? Do you believe that a pen grip can affect the ability to learn?
The pen holding posture is a problem that has existed since ancient times, let's first cover the history of holding the pen. Ancient brushes had a five-finger penmanship method, for example, a five-finger penmanship
Three-finger penmanship
Hand mastery of pipe methods, etc
According to statistics, there are more than a dozen or twenty kinds, and each has its own statement, which is conclusive and well-written. Su Shi has stressed that there is no definite method for writing. He was also criticized by Huang Tingjian and Dong Qichang. In fact, the matter of holding a pen is mainly to make the pen firmly pinched in the fingers, and the finger structure of each person is different, so the appropriate way does not necessarily have to be the same. And the ancients wrote with a brush, large and small font size is different, the font is not the same, is it a hanging wrist or a pillow wrist? Nor does it completely fix the position and posture of the pen in the hand.
Of course, beginners must have a certain method of holding the pen. However, the ancients generally wrote slowly, and formal occasions did not necessarily pay special attention to writing speed. In the Qing Dynasty, there were three township examinations, each three days and two nights, that is to say, a township examination lasted for nine days and six nights (the examination of the four books and five classics, the strategy, the poetry of these pieces), the spelling is sensitive thinking, and certainly not more than who writes. Candidates have plenty of time to answer questions. One of the reasons for the invention of cursive writing is to make up for the lack of writing speed of the ancients.
In modern society, knowledge has expanded, and the amount of knowledge learned by modern people has been greatly improved. Requirements are placed on both the quality of writing and the speed of writing. Children in the lower grades can see that there is a big gap in the speed of children. According to my observations for many years, it is not necessarily the gap in children's intelligence. Many parents say: "My children are rubbing, writing is always writing stop and stop, a word is written slowly." And at great expense to send all kinds of writing classes, calligraphy classes, but some children after a period of writing practice, the quality of writing seems to improve a little, in fact, the speed of writing is slower, what is the reason for this?
Many people think that it is the cause of skill, if so, why do some children not have this problem? In my opinion, there is still a problem with the start, that is, the posture of holding the pen. Brushes do not necessarily have a standard posture, but pens have a relatively standard holding posture.
The pens and ballpoint pens used by modern people are all for writing small characters, which tests the fine movements of the fingers. So we do not recommend kindergarten children to write too many words, because many children's fingers have not yet developed to a state that can better transmit the power to the tip of the finger, in other words, some children must twist their fingers with great strength in order to write a correct word, in order to get a praise. As everyone knows, the wrong pen holding habit has been formed, which has brought hidden dangers to future learning.
Let's first look at the wrong pen holding posture
Holding the pen incorrectly, resulting in some problems:
1. There is no way to write the stroke straight, and the error of the force point leads to the inability to control the details, affecting the handwriting, and then affecting the learning confidence.
2. Uneven writing force, finger joints are easy to fatigue, affecting speed, long-term lead to boredom.
3. It is difficult to correct, resulting in difficulty in improving the practice of words, and it can be slow or not fast. It appears that the practice is correct, and the homework is scrawled. In the long run, he did not practice words well, and he also consumed the child's energy.
So what is the scientific writing correct posture?
Seeing this picture, children with a little ability to imitate can hold it well, right? No, if you only look at the picture and don't know the gist, you will find that the child writes and returns to the previous posture. The essentials are as follows:
1. The abdomen of the index finger and thumb should form a triangle with the first joint of the middle finger (the stability of the triangle will not be repeated here), which is conducive to the accuracy of the pen.
2. The three fingers must be evenly strained to avoid pen fatigue. How can adults tell if the child is evenly exerted? Look at whether the first two sections of the index finger form a straight plane, if the child's index knuckle forms an arc, it must be that the index finger is overexerted, very easy to fatigue, resulting in homework writing stop and stop.
3. The pen shaft should not rely too much on the tiger's mouth (the position of the thumb and finger), which is conducive to the operation of the finger joint. It is easy for a child who is new to writing to use the tiger's mouth to surround the pen shaft to gain stability because the fingers cannot use the force. As a result, the second joint of the index finger cannot function flexibly, and writing is naturally slow.
4. Fingers too close to the tip of the pen. One block of vision, two resulting in a limited range of motion of the nib, words are difficult to write long strokes, to force writing, the fingers will spend more force.
The above four points, as long as you practice diligently, can you change it? Not necessarily, adults have a sense of self-adjustment, but children often lack autonomy, coupled with the fact that homework is common now, once the bad pen holding habit is formed, it is very difficult to change, far less relaxed than we think!
In this case, an auxiliary tool to correct the pen and writing is very necessary:
Can the pen grip correct your child's writing posture and improve his writing speed? As long as you insist on using it, you will definitely not adapt to it at first, and over time the habit will be cultivated, the habit will become natural, and a good writing posture will naturally form.
Parents who have been writing slowly for their children, let their children complete their homework without fatigue of their fingers, face learning with a relaxed psychological state, and smile again!