Manual skills

How important is manual dexterity in the psychomotor development of children? it is necessary to give importance to skills such as cutting and pasting or, on the contrary, we should expect them to appear spontaneously? at what age these skills should be developed?

Our hands are extremely complex and sotisficadas tools. Until a brief review of its structure to confirm it: each contains 27 bones and is stimulated through three main nerves, with many ramifications. As fathers and mothers it is clear to us that, when they are babies, our children barely dominate their hands, full control comes only after two years.

The functionality of the hands is immense and we can mention some aspects:

Pressure capacity

Thanks to the fact that the thumb is opposable to the other fingers of the hand and that our palm is flexible, human beings can grasp things using an infinity of postures that involve two or more fingers. In addition, it is possible to hold objects with just one finger.

Graduation of force

As long as we know the objects of the world and their nature, human beings use different strength to touch or hold them.

Variety of drag

Human hand is favored in its ability to move, that is, pressure and strength, by the mobility that gives the wrist, able to rotate up, down, right and left.

how the domain is achieved

the most important fact to pass to a complete mastery of the hands is to be able to combine their movement and vision. Aesto refers to specialists when they talk about vision coordination, whose achievement involves a long process that must be stimulated at all times and from very early.

Trim

It is definitely not easy to remove the children from the use of scissors. Although it reaches being ready for her at 5 years, contact with this tool will be given before and will be positive taking into account some aspects such as, all court activities must be done freely. after training in the free cut, they will be ready to cut large figures, with thick and well defined edges. Later they can be provided with subtract, curved and mixed lines, and they will be able to cut by increasingly thinner edges.

as it should be

It is not necessary to insist that, when it comes to cutting, the scissors must be grasped correctly, however, other factors must also be considered. For example, do not forget that in all our children's work, the general posture of the body has an effect.

In addition, in the case of cutting, the degree of development of the motor vision coordination has an immense impact. Cutting is a particularly demanding activity, since it reverts from a high relation between vision and movement not from one, but from both hands, since the one that holds the paper or material that is cut also fulfills a key function.

In addition, fine motor coordination, as the fingers participate more or less independently, must be correctly stimulated. In any case, it is essential to keep in mind that what should be avoided is frustration, and that is why it is very important that parents buy this work with the children, attending to their emotions in front of them.

It is convenient to put into practice the following ideas from the moment the children make contact with the scissors:

Combine the use of scissors with a constant exercise in tearing paper.
Guide the appropriate way to hold the scissors from the first moment, so that no vices arise in this, as it affects the results.
Avoid demanding great results and always consider their age and the moment they are in psychomotor development