‘Kids Too Weak to Grip Pencils?’ (2018)

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“So what am I supposed to do with this?”

British “educators” discovered, a few years ago, that children in the touchscreen generation were too weak to grip pencils. Or do much of anything else, when you come right down to it.

Kids Too Weak to Grip Pencils?

Now it’s six years later. I wonder if they took the touchscreens away and went back to pencils, erasers, paper, rulers, etc. [Laughs hysterically. Has to be shoved into a straitjacket.]

Do you like the way we’re heading?

6 comments on “‘Kids Too Weak to Grip Pencils?’ (2018)

  1. Our computerized, touch-screen world has definitely left us with a lot of downside effects. I’ve heard that they no longer teach throwing grenades to Army recruits, in part because young recruits can’t throw a grenade.

  2. Who would ever have imagined that this kind of thing would happen. When I think of all the things kids of my generation did at these ages and compare it to this, it is mind boggling.

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