Too Much Technology: Children Growing Up With Weak Hands, Fingers

Researchers say children are showing up to school unable to hold pencils or cut paper with scissors

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Smartphones and tablets are convenient babysitters and pacifiers for bored or crying children.

But they may be preventing those children from developing the necessary hand strength to hold pencils, cut with scissors, and perform tasks children their same age could easily do just a decade ago.