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When we talk about physical development, we often break it down into gross-motor and fine-motor skills. I think this misses the bigger picture. What is really happening is that children are developing muscle control from the trunk and gradually mastering muscles further out on their limbs. Infants and toddlers have much more control of their upper arms than their fingers, for example. When a preschooler starts using a pincer grasp to hold a pencil, they are showing fine-motor coordination, but that grasp also requires them to anchor the rest of their body in a way that facilitates drawing or writing. The gross-motor skills are still necessary, but many of them will become automatic for the child. Fine-motor skills develop in the context of gross-motor skills (Connell and McCarthy 2014).
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