The simple habit that builds stronger brains and steadier hands. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Developmental skills don’t arrive with a grand announcement. They sneak in quietly, usually when a child is busy doing something that looks completely pointless to adults. Take clay, for example. If you went to nursery school a couple of decades ago, chances are you spent a fair amount of time playing with clay. Not in a structured, outcome-driven way. Just… sitting there, poking it, rolling it, occasionally attempting to make a “snake” that looked more like a badly injured worm. I remember trying to make a car out of modeling clay once. What I ended up with looked like a potato going through an identity crisis. I proudly showed it to my teacher anyway. She nodded like I had just engineered a Formula 1 prototype. That was the magic of it. No pressure. No expectations. Just hands, clay, and imagination doing their thing.…