The Easiest Way to Teach Your Kid to Hold a Pencil
by Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Me from Lifehacker on (#5EA4E)

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...