{"id":498,"date":"2014-08-06T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:46:51","slug":"joyful-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/joyful-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from NPR today: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ed\/2014\/08\/06\/336361277\/scientists-say-childs-play-helps-build-a-better-brain<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there will be more on the subject this week\u2014from 8\/6\/2014<\/p>\n<p>As stated herein before, we should leave forming letters and numerals until kids are ready. Their hands and fingers need to develop so they can hold a pencil in a relaxed manner when it&#8217;s time to write. That comes from play. Scribble, yes. And provide any other stuff that leads to picking it up, holding, moving, pushing or squeezing it with thumb and index finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes from NPR today: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ed\/2014\/08\/06\/336361277\/scientists-say-childs-play-helps-build-a-better-brain Apparently there will be more on the subject this week\u2014from 8\/6\/2014 As stated herein before, we should leave forming letters and numerals until kids are ready. Their hands and fingers need to develop so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/joyful-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5,3,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners","category-news","category-penpencil-hold","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}