{"id":160,"date":"2010-12-03T05:59:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2010-12-03T05:59:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T10:59:27","slug":"quick-tip-for-penpencil-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/quick-tip-for-penpencil-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK TIP For Pen\/Pencil Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"

A relaxed hold needs an open palm.<\/p>\n

For young children ask them to write with a cotton ball held in the palm with the ring and little fingers. The writing finger drives the pencil; the thumb and third finger stabilize it.<\/p>\n

Older persons do the same but with a larger, soft ball. A ball of yarn; a soft, rubber ball; or a dampened piece of sponge will do well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A relaxed hold needs an open palm. For young children ask them to write with a cotton ball held in the palm with the ring and little fingers. The writing finger drives the pencil; the thumb and third finger stabilize … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners","category-education","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}