Jj is for Jottings 166. Motor Skills and Screen Time in Preschoolers, Part 2.
As promised in the previous article on motor skills and screen time, in this article we will cover suggestions for both gross and fine motor activities, providing both fun and skill development for your preschoolers. And these suggestions are easy to set up, and many are portable. Continue reading
Jj is for Jottings 165. Motor Skills and Screen Time in Preschoolers.
We will now look at the topic of motor skills and screen time in preschoolers in some detail. In Creativity in Children, Part 1 I noted a deterioration in young children’s fine motor skills over the last few years. I suggested that creative activities involving fine motor skills may have been partly or completely replaced by screen time. It is not just fine motor skills which suffer from replacement by screen time, but gross motor skills as well. Continue reading
