I no longer have a child in school, but I was talking to an elementary school teacher the other day. She made the interesting claim that now that penmanship is being de-emphasized in favor of key boarding, she observes that the children are not developing fine motor skills as in the past. In fact, she said some of them cannot even use scissors competently. I was actually never very good at penmanship myself, and wish they had abolished it earlier, but it is interesting to think that there might be a lot of people who are not developing fine motor skills as a result. Has this been observed by anyone else? Of course, nothing develops fine motor skills like lacemaking :-), so perhaps that is the "in" for the link to childhood education. On the other hand, if children are not developing fine motor skills, where will the lacemakers of tomorrow come from? Devon
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