Opinion | Class action: learning typing is key, but there's no need to rush your child

There is growing evidence that suggests it is an advantage for students to learn the correct technique for touch typing.

However, I would not be too concerned about your daughter's prospects at this stage, as children pick up typing skills when they need them.

The incentive is often the need to communicate on social networks either through the computer or increasingly via mobile phones (some smarter than others). The social lives of children depend more and more on their ability to communicate via electronic media and this will become a driving force as your daughter gets older.

However, some schools could certainly do more to help children in this regard, even if this only consists of giving them the basic idea of where to place their fingers on the keyboard, and by monitoring how their technique develops.

Many children pick up good enough techniques at home incidentally, while browsing the internet for information or doing homework. This can result in them using an array of different techniques, some very unconventional.