It’s hard not to admire the people who can do a pull-up. After all, it’s an impressive feat of upper-body strength. That may ...

Fine motor skills help preschoolers master important daily tasks like holding a pencil, buttoning a shirt, and using scissors. Engaging children in targeted activities builds hand strength and ...

Using a fork to eat, zipping up a sweatshirt and turning a doorknob are all things most people do without thinking, but children spend their early years developing and refining these abilities. They ...

Milestones are skills that children develop as they grow. Most of them learn fine motor skills at certain ages. 3 months. Your infant doesn’t have a lot of control over their arms. They can probably ...

The pincer grasp is the ability to hold something between the thumb and first finger. This skill usually develops in babies around 9 to 10 months old. The pincer grasp is an important fine-motor ...

Things like drawing with a pencil or using a knife and fork can be difficult for children. Practise by threading beads, play with modelling clay or other things around the house. Gross motor skills, ...

Preschoolers' fine and gross motor skill development is indicative of later performance on two key measures of kindergarten readiness, according to a study. Preschoolers who performed better on fine ...

When we train the reaching for and grasping of objects, we also train our brain. In other words, this action brings about changes in the connections of a certain neuronal population in the red nucleus ...

Dyspraxia is a lifelong developmental coordination disorder that affects gross and fine motor skills, and sometimes cognitive function. There is no cure, but it can be successfully managed with ...

As your baby grows and starts to investigate their surroundings, they develop new skills. Gross motor skills are one set of skills they’ll add to their repertoire of tricks right from the start. Let’s ...