_*Use Of Touch Screen Of Devices By Children Hamper Their Growth Many Children Hamper Their Growth Many W_ays_ays**
. Nowadays, Parents provide their toddlers and children to use mobile phones, tablets, computers and other gadgets where they use these touching their screen with their fingers, a new study has established that it leads to their holding capacity to hold a pen or pencil while writing by fingers as depicted in the attached picture. In fact, many parents use the tactic of giving their gadgets to their kids to them busy, while they go about their day without disturbance. Little do they know, that this habit is actually hampering their growth in a lot of ways. Confirming the same, UK doctors have explained how the excessive use of phones and tablets is preventing children's finger muscles from developing sufficiently, thereby making it increasingly hard for them to hold pens and pencils.
Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago," said Sally Payne, the head pediatric therapist at the Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in the UK. "Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not able to hold it because they do not have the fundamental movement skills," the researcher said. "To be able to grip a pencil and move it, you need strong control of the fine muscles in your fingers. Children need lots of opportunities to develop those skills," she said. "It's easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes," She quoted as saying by the 'Guardian'. The person, who runs a research clinic at Brunel University London investigating key skills in childhood, including handwriting, said that increasing numbers of children may be developing handwriting late because of an overuse of technology. "One problem is that handwriting is very individual in how it develops in each child," she said. "Without research, the risk is that we make too many assumptions about why a child isn't able to write at the expected age and don't intervene when there is a technology-related cause," she said. Although the early years' curriculum has handwriting targets for every year, different primary schools focus on handwriting in different ways – with some using tablets alongside pencils, she said. This becomes a problem when same the children also spend large periods of time on tablets outside the school.
