NannyBeBe
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That's quite interesting. Hard to imagine a kid privileged enough to have electronics such that they can play video games and yet having perplexingly not ever played with a crayon especially as old as a 3rd grader when many kids have at least some sort of experience with a crayon (usually a large one when you're young).
Kids work cell phones quite well at age 2 and such so not speaking to that but rather that they wouldn't have the finger abilities to grip a crayon or pencil because they weren't exposed to it especially by the ages you're talking about. Even all the kids I've seen grow up playing with cell phones as a toddler still write their names, still have held pencils and crayons
I was speaking solely of the Kindergartners I work with. It's sad to see, and it's very difficult to teach them how to grip a pencil when they do not understand the idea of gripping something. It's a challenge for sure. One would think that parents teach their children how to color with crayons and therefore they learn to grip an object, but that often is not the case.