Children and Fountain Pens

[patrickfp]

Thanks for the input everyone. However, I mostly wanted to know what is a good age to introduce a kid to fountain pens.

It depends on the tactile skills and dexterity of the kid in question. As soon as 4, or when they first start to take an interest in writing; as late as 8 or 9, if my mates' kids are anything to go by. As with acquiring any skill, there's no point in starting too soon if they're unenthusiastic, and no point insisting if they're not making rapid enough progress to keep them interested, or look like developing bad habits that will just retard their progress: better, in that case, to start later, and progress more quickly.

Good advice. It's very important that kids have fun while learning to write. No fun = no interest. Bribing does not work either.

[Juicyjones]

Do you mean Griffix?

 

http://www.pelikan.com/pulse/Pulsar/en_US.Store.displayStore.62469./griffix

 

+1

[JBat]

I was using them in 2nd and 3rd grade. They were standard issue at the time.

[fabiorr]

I got my first FP at age 14 and have been using them since.

 

Fabio

[bigstick]

Being schooled through the sixties, I remember we were started on "primary" pencils until we learned the proper grip, then transitioned to fountain pens by Gr2 or Gr3. Hard to remember five decades later. Those first ones were some version of aerometric as I remember and we all had a bottle of Skrip in the hole in the school desk. By Gr 5 it was cartridge pens.