At what age did your kids start using writing utensils,Without putting in their mouth

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

At what age did your kids start using writing utensils,Without putting them in their mouth?I'm just wondering the average age where kids don't put pens in their mouth anymore.Thanks!

 

[Birbitt]

My kids are 5 and 6 and can use pens/pencils properly but they still put them in their mouths...I used to have pens in my mouth till I was a teenager but to this day I have to have something in my mouth or I'm not happy or able to concentrate (I should buy stock in the gum companies LOL).

 

[tiffyof6ntwins]

well i think thats something that varies with age or even personality. now if you mean just the typical can concentrate so putting object in mouth that is normal for i think most anyone but actually chewing and nawing i would say by age 3 they should be out of that ..

 

[illudium_phosdex]

I'm not sure. My son is 7 and still bites the eraser off his pencils. Drives me nuts. I don't remember my daughter ever doing it even when she was very small. I used to bite the middle of my pencils until about 4th grade. That would have made me 10 or so. I'm like birbitt though, I like to chew gum and should seriously consider some Wrigley's stock options.

 

[united4Peace]

Our kids are 11 and 12 and still put pens and pencils in their mouths (they also chew on the wires for their speaker when they're listening to music, the pen thingy for their Nintendo DS etc...)...then again...so do I...If Im writing and lost in deep thought Ill find myself chewing on a pen

 

[Hadassah]

My kids are 5 and 6 and can use pens/pencils properly but they still put them in their mouths...I used to have pens in my mouth till I was a teenager but to this day I have to have something in my mouth or I'm not happy or able to concentrate (I should buy stock in the gum companies LOL).

I do that too... once in a while. I do need to get stock in Wrigley's...

 

[GolfingMom]

My kiddo's never put pen/pencils in their mouths. THey also didn't put crayons/markers etc in their mouths.

 

[lucypevensie]

My kids don't chew on their pens and pencils either. I do wish I knew how to get them to keep pens and pencils on the table when doing homework though. Annoying. I sit down to help with homework and it's interrupted 5 times because they let their pencil roll onto the floor and under the radiator and then the lead breaks, etc... Did I mention annoying?