Pincer Grip
This is a drawing kindly provided by “Andrea” from “Andrea’s Buzzing Around:.” If only I could draw like “that.”
Pincer or Pincher grip definition:-
A skill that “generally” develops in infants between the age of 12 and 15 months.
Can you do it? Not “draw like Andrea” but put your hand in that position?
Many people can’t or have great difficulty making the two tips touch. Sometimes even if we can manage to get them to touch, we lack the finger strength to maintain a good hold.
It can be very frustrating for everyone concerned.
How about “this?”
Of course if truth be told we don’t hold spoons in a pincher grip anyway but it’s a great tool to avoid getting pinched until you master it.
Better late than never. So glad we got around to it “eventually.”
Stumble it!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
lol, you’ve got me sitting here doing the pincer grip!
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 am
Mine got it from wanting to pick up spiders and worms and other crawlies.
I have a distant nodding acquaintance with those crawlies now.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 am
I’ll take your spare tuit. ;o)
(Formerly known as Kentucky Woman)
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 am
That is one thing my boys do have, a pincer grip. They’ve never had issues with that, but still have fairly poor writing skills. But they can take screws out, pick up teeny things from the floor and pick fibers out of the carpet, so I figure it is a fairly well-developed skill!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 am
hence we practice putting coins into a piggy bank, picking pennies up off a table (no scooping them off the side, please dear .. nice try), and putting toothpicks into cubes of cheese .. we water plants (and often our sister)with spritz bottles too . slightly different, but strengthens the same muscles
(these are #s 432 through 435 of ‘things i thought i’d never know’)
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 am
It took a few extra years, but my guy eventually graduated from the “fist grip” shown in the first (expertly drawn) illustration to the pincer grip. As for the “spoon photo”, that takes some skill too–raising (balancing) something bigger than the spoon in the air! Looks like he’s being quite clever there. : )
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 am
i have this friend that’s a lobster and he can totally do that
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:11 am
What I find curious is that my husband will still frequently hold his spoon or fork in the toddler’s “fist grip”, with the end of the utensil handle inside his fist. It’s not like he can’t do the regular pincer grip. Then again, both hubby and the kid have awkward penmanship that hasn’t really moved beyond the semi-transitional printing + cursive. Fortunately, it’s really not so much a problem as everybody types!
andrea
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 am
Yikes! He got to keep the crab?
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 am
My Junior can only now use a spoon but only for thick stuff like pudding or yogurt. He uses a “first grip” and so does Noddy.
Junior can grip a crayon and fork but is awkward with them…he is getting better.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Pincer and correct pencil holding has never been an issue here.
Pointing was our big one… The MOM had to learn how to first
Hugs, congrats!!!
S.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
I never thought about it before. Interesting. I’ll have to watch for it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Yay! You made it for Special Exposure. You worked the camera, posted the photo, linked and everything. You did good.
I love the crab shot! And we have heard about and worked on the pincer grip for a lifetime. I was always stunned that as a preschooler Wil could pinch his brothers and draw blood, but the pincer grip alluded him.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Great drawings. That grip is still tricky for M but we are working on it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I like the crab photo. I think my boys can do this because there are so many things they are reluctant to touch.
Only one of them can feed himself with a spoon,, though!
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
We’re still working on it here. It ain’t easy!
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Charlie has it but still struggles to get his fingers around a pencil—long fingers make it harder, too.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Ummm….IS THAT A GIANT SPIDER???!!! WHO WANTS TO HOLD THAT?
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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July 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I think crabs, and lobsters, and shrimp, are yummy and all, but I don’t eat ‘em much anymore, after thinking about what _they_ eat.
I mean, I had some shrimp from Canaveral Seafoods, about a month after Challenger went in. Krista was delicious, but I seem to have gotten more squeamish lately.
Oh, BTW, did y’all know that one of the reasons they just gave up and left everybody in USS Arizona was, that by the time they were starting to bring the bodies up, the crabs had eaten off all of the fingers with the prints on them, and there was no way to identify the bodies?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I used to have a miniature pinscher; his name was Chibi
We were out walking in the woods one day and came across a small boy with his Dad. Chibi loved kids and ran up to him (now Chibi was tiny, about 8 lbs). The man and I spoke while the boy petted Chibi and the dad asked, “What kind of dog is that?” to which I replied, “A miniature pinscher.” At once the boy stopped petting Chibi and whispered to his dad: “I don’t want him to pinch me!”
Thanks for letting me remember Chibi