Why Are Fine Motor Skills So Important?
In the preschool years, being able to color with crayons, cut with scissors, paint with a paintbrush and play with small objects such as lego, beads and puzzles, are integral to your child’s development.
Self care activities such as tying shoelaces and using a knife and fork to eat food, all require a degree of fine motor control. Children who struggle with any of these activities often feel frustrated and their self-esteem suffers when they can’t keep up with their peers.
Children who have a conflict performing these activities often feel frustrated and have low self esteem because they cannot keep up with their peers.
Once formal schooling starts, good control of the hand muscles will enable the child to learn handwriting with a minimum of effort. Many bright children stumble in the early years because their great difficulty with pencil control holds them back from showing what they are really capable of.
Once school starts, being able to write properly with a proper handwriting requires right control of the hand muscles with little effort. During the early years of school many intelligent children stumble because they have great complications in controlling the pencil which hinders them from