Teaching Him to Write: PenAgain

      First let me start by saying, my hat goes off to all the wonderful pre-school, kindergarten and elementary school teacher around the world. Teaching a small child to do something as simple as holding a writing utensil has to be the most difficult, nerve wrecking task of all time.

     Recently, my son's wonderful pre-school teachers have been making a great effort to help the kids at his school learn the alphabet, spelling and recognize simple words, and write their first and last names. So to kind of keep up with his development, mom and I take a little time out of our day here and there to do fun creative exercises to try and assist with the development of these skills. But the issue we were having was getting him to hold the pencil, pen, marker, etc. between his fingers in oppose to griping it in his palm.
      A few weeks ago, Pranava, one of my fellow classmates was writing down some information for an assignment and I notice a strange looking writing utensil in her hand, so I curiously ask, "what it was and what was it's purpose?” She told me it was called, "PenAgain", and explained how much easier and less strenuous it was on her hand and risk, she also told me how great it was in helping her daughter with her writing technique. So, I went home and did a little research and found that it was exactly as she explained. The PenAgain was originally designed to reduce the amount of stress to the risk and fingers while writing, by eliminating the need to grip the pen and push the tip into the paper. Its Y-shaped design, allow for the index finger to guides the tip of the pen, removing stress traditionally placed on the thumb and forefinger while writing. For more information on PenAgain please visit, www.penagain.net/
      I must say, so far so good. My son has become attached to the unique and creative design of the PenAgain. Thanks to Pranava, this has definitely made my job and hopefully his teacher's job easier. I would highly recommend and encourage anyone with small children to purchase one immediately. They can be found at most local retail store Walgreens, Safeway, etc. or purchased over the internet on sites such as, Amazon or EBay.