8 Reasons Why Fine Motoric Skills For Children Are Important From An Early Age

Illustration of the reasons why fine motor skills in children are important to hone from an early age (Freepic)

YOGYAKARTA In the early year of children's growth, fine motor skills are important to hone. Not without reason, because this skill determines how children can be independent, superior in academics, to be able to develop what they are interested in. The term 'fine motor' refers to small muscles of the body, such as fingers of the hands, hands, tongue, fingers of the feet, and eyes.

Fine motor skills are the ability to control fine muscles, especially in the hands and eyes to complete movement and tasks. More specifically, here are the reasons why punctuating fine motor skills for young children.

In early childhood, comprehensive developments include physical, intellectual (cognitive), social, and emotional development. Physical developments include gross motors (big bodies), fine motors, monitoring of the eyes and eyes, balance, direction, dominance of the left hand or right hand or feet, body awareness and spatial awareness.

Skills do not develop independently. But it involves working together and everything affects each other. For example, to kick the ball, the muscles of the eyes, the leg and leg muscles must work together. When writing children need to control the pencil, trace with their eyes, follow the bookline pattern, form letters, and so on.

One of the most important benefits of having good fine motor control is to form independence in children. Without this control, babies depend on their mother to hold the bottle, toddlers can't solve the puzzle, and preschoolers can't unzipple their bags to take something.

Language skills, as important as fine motor skills. Because both are related to independence. It is important to understand, that independence is very good for a child's sense of achievement and build their confidence.

Almost all self-care tasks depend on the use of the body's small muscles, especially hands. Such as eating, dressing, tying the straps, brushing teeth, washing hands, going to the toilet, preparing simple foods, packing toys, combing hair, and other self-care activities.

In addition to self-care tasks, many other things you do in a day require several types of fine motor coordination, including free time activities. For example opening windows, turning book pages, operating gadgets, to playing.

Playing is a way for preschoolers to learn happily. They participate in all types of fine motor activity at home and at school. Play activities such as puzzles, loggership boards, playing dress-up, painting, playing sand, playing water and many other activities as well as fine motor skills toys require a sufficient skill level.

Draw is one of the most important activities in early childhood. After going through the drawing stage, they showed maturity and cognitive understanding that continued to increase through their pictures.

By drawing, children show their understanding of the world and its concepts, as well as their ability to hold and control drawing tools such as sickles. Drawing someone, for example, is a milestone in fine motor development that shows the level of awareness of the child's body.

Drawing is a pre-writing skill. Long before children learn to form letters, they must develop mastery with drawing tools such as sickles, markers, pencils and limes. That is, before learning to write hands and fingers, children need to be trained. Children need to be trained to control and hone the strength of their fingers in handling stationery until they are fluent in forming letters.

Fine motor skills not only affect the ability of children to write, but also their ability to deal with the demands of public academics at school. They must be able to take many lessons in a day, many of which will be spent writing.

Activities that develop fine motor skills also hone children's concentrations. Just imagine, in writing their names, they have to concentrate on thinking about what letters to write without being wrong and easy to work on. In addition, fine motor activity usually requires children to sit still for a certain period of time and focus on existing tasks.

Those are eight reasons why it is important for children to hone fine motor skills from an early age. To hone this skill, parents can invite their children to do various fun activities.