Minimum age for knitting
I know that the minimum age your child can knit is based on hand-eye coordination and so seeing if they can write is a good test. However they say that if your child shows interest when you knit that you should teach them no matter how good their coordination is and their age.
I disagree with this.
The reason is that the younger the child is the more likely that the child is going to be pricked by the needles and the more it is like a cut and so even if a 1 year old has good hand eye coordination and is interested in knitting I would delay it until they are at least 2 and probably 3 or 4.
However 1 year olds learn at a faster pace than older children because of how they have extreme neuroplasticity still so theoretically a 1 year old and a 6 year old and a 12 year old with good coordination would learn at different paces with the 1 year old learning the fastest of them all. However there is another thing to consider and that is their attention span and the attention span like puts a big - on a 1 year old and a small - on a 12 year old so for knitting it is actually the 12 year old who learns the fastest despite the lower neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity peaks at the newborn stage and gets lower and lower after that.
Do you agree with what I said and if you don't agree tell me why you don't agree.