My son will not hold his spoon/fork the right way?
He is 3.8 years old and I have been trying to help him to hold his spoon right. He still grabs it like a fist backwards type of hold if you know what i mean. I want him to hold it right because of learning to write with a pencil also. any ideas to get him to hold it right? I help him everytime he eats but goes back to the old way of holding his spoon/fork.
I work at a daycare and I see children who are even 4-5 who can’t hold their forks and spoons correctly. It takes time. I wouldn’t worry.
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I wouldn’t worry about it. Let him feed himself his own way and when he’s hungry he’ll figure out the best way to get food in. Sit with him to draw and write with big crayons or washable markers and let him see the way you hold the crayon and draw things for him and write his name. Don’t scold him or correct him, just draw and write with him a little every day. Don’t turn it into a battle, eventually his grip will straighten out. He won’t be eating like that in the college cafeteria!