My husband is left-handed. My two children are left-handed. And then there is me, the minority, trying to co-exist peacefully with them while using my clearly inferior right hand.
Do you know how difficult it can be for a right-handed Mom to teach her left-handed kids to do things like tying their shoes or (gulp) writing?
If you’re reading this post while pulling your hair out with your right hand, you probably do.
Below I’m sharing ALL the information I’ve gathered about parenting a lefty. I want to raise my kids to LOVE being a lefty so I’m trying to make sure I know what I’m doing.
Many say the most daunting task in parenting a left-handed child is teaching them to write. Amen! You’ll find LOTS of answers and advice on that subject at the end of this post. (affiliate links included)
Interesting Facts About Lefties
August 13th is International Left Handers Day.
About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
Of the seven most recent U.S Presidents, 4 were left handed.
Some researchers believe that about 25% of the time the gene for left-handedness is inherited from the Father’s side.
Identical twins can have different dominant hands.
Nails grow faster on the left hand than the right. (People who are right-handed have nails that grow faster on that hand.)
In one 2008 Swedish study of moms and their 5-year-old children, women who were depressed or stressed during their pregnancies were more likely to have mixed or left-handed kids.
Babies with low birth weight, or born to older mothers, were more likely to be lefties as well.
Babies usually start showing a hand preference at about 7 to 9 months old, but parents can’t be entirely sure until around the time they start kindergarten.
The Benefits of Being a Lefty
The right side of the brain controls the left hand, and is also responsible for music, art, perception and emotion. There are large numbers of left-handed students and professors in schools of architecture, music and math.
Unfortunately too many lefties give up on these kinds of activities because of stress. Why? The instruments and the tools they need are designed for right-handed people. (The good news is you can purchase the correct tools for southpaws.)
In baseball, left-handed pitchers are always in high-demand.
Your left-handed kiddo is probably pretty artistic, or creative, or imaginative.
Po from Kung Fu Panda is a lefty, as are Disney’s Mulan, Rapunzel in Tangled and MLP Fluttershy.
Around 20% of all Mensa members are left-handed. Some researchers believe the genius comes from being forced to use both sides of the brain more often.
Lefties’ eyes adjust easier to seeing underwater. Scientists are not sure why.
Left-handed people often have an easier time learning to drive.
The Challenges of Left-Handed Children
They truly live in a right-handed world. Parents can begin to understand how frustrating it can be for their kiddo by practicing doing things with their left hand. That’s the best way to feel how your child experiences the world around them.
Doors of all kinds can be sneaky. Your child may often “run over” their foot with a door (like opening a refrigerator).
Regulars scissors are not going to “cut it.” Lefties need left-handed scissors. If your child’s teacher doesn’t have them, buy them and take them to school. Right-handed scissors are nearly impossible for them to use. Lefty scissors
Desks & notebooks can be difficult. Spiral notebooks present a problem and desks meant for right-handed kids are trouble.
Sitting beside righties is a pain. As soon as they understand, teach them to sit on the left so they don’t bump elbows.
The mouse on a computer is tough. You can switch the settings on computers to make a mouse or cursor easier for a lefty.
Learning to tie your shoes can be super difficult. When you’re teaching your left-handed child to tie their shoes try to stay away from giving directions like “left or right.”
Instead use the bunny ears method of tying shoes. Be sure to position yourself opposite your child instead of next to her so she can mirror your movements. (Here is an excellent tutorial.)
Teaching Your Left-Handed Child to Write
Studies say the biggest cause of stress for them is learning to write.
Why?
Their hand covers their work as they write. Everything gets smudged. Their writing is obscured by their hand.
Here are some of the best tips for teaching a left-handed child to write:
Make sure teachers know your child is a leftie. Teach your son or daughter to say, “I’m a leftie.”
The left-handed “hook” you often see in adult lefties is actually the result of never having learned to properly hold a pencil. Left-handers do this because they are trying to see what they are writing and not smear it.
Teach your lefty to hold the pencil about an inch and a half above the tip of the pencil. They’ll be able to see what they’re writing and will be less likely to develop the “lefty hook.”
A good way to help them remember where to put their fingers is to mark the spot on the pencil with a marker or a sticker.
Remind them not to hold the pencil too tightly.
The “Tri-Grip” is super important. This means the pencil rests comfortably in the triangle of the thumb, forefinger and middle finger. Here is a fantastic tutorial to help. (Ask if your child’s teacher is working on this at school at well.)
Make sure pencils
Left-handed people move the paper toward their body which causes their own body to get in the way. Teach them it’s a good idea to move the paper around as they write. Have the top left corner of the paper higher than the right and the paper itself to their left.
Their right hand should hold the paper still as they write. They can be frustrated when their paper keeps moving all around.
Your kiddo may create letters differently than you do. They may, for example, dot the i before drawing it or draw an S from the bottom up. It’s totally okay.
As you are teaching your kiddo how to write letters, make sure the example they are looking at is above them or on their right side so they can actually see it.
Papers that put the model letter on the left are harder for lefties. It can be cause for more mistakes than right-handed kids and it may mean it takes them longer to finish as well.
If you have tips about raising left-handed children, I would LOVE it if you’d share. I’m learning every day and I could use all the help I can get!
Liz is a just a mom trying to keep it real about how little she sleeps, how often she gets puked on and how much she loves them. You can find her here every day writing about real-mom moments.
I will never forgive my high school music teacher for forcing me to have guitar lessons on a right handed guitar when my father had already taught me to play left handed. Her theory was I was a minority, I figured there were 12 guitars for classes of 24, there is bound to be 2 lefties in each class. In hindsight I should have made more of a fuss as I have never been able to choose a side, playing classical right handed and rock music (bar chords) left handed. It does my head in that I can’t play either well, all because a teacher couldn’t be bothered re-stringing a guitar, seriously? It’s a 10 minute job.
Another time I was frustrated was joining the military, the armourer issuing me my rifle on recruit course asked me if I had ever fired a weapon, I hadn’t, but stated I was a leftie, he said it didn’t matter and gave me a right handed rifle. I struggled to pass all through course. Years down the track I tried a leftie rifle and what do you know, I got marksman. Why do people disregard lefties, it’s not just about which hand we use, it effects how we use our brain, and to its full potential, I’m devastated lookig back the impact it has had on my life, and will ensure it will never happen to my son!
Honey if you struggled with firing a weapon then it’s cause you just suck. I’m a lefty I’m a Marine it’s not to be mean it true. The only effect being of being a lefty the range is having the the brass of the person firing next to you being more likely to land near you. It don’t change how you sight in or how you see the target. Another point. IT’S THE MILITARY…. the ONLY thing that will ever be accomadating to you as an individual is your name. And even that’s not 100% cause we had 3 Mathew Johnsons in one platoon at a one point. So to think they are going to custom oder a lefty weapon…..you a special one sence they are almost as hard to find in the civilian world to. The only 2 differences safty and ejection port cover locations NETHER effect how well you fire. Sorry hun.
I’m going to agree with you on this. The only reason firing a weapon would be awkward is if your dominate eye is opposite that of your dominant hand. Our son is left hand & eye dominant, and he’s a great little shot. My husband and I are both righties, and didn’t take any special steps in teaching him shooting. No special setup is needed.
I am a lefty and no one taught me a thing. I know of only one other lefty 3rd cousin on either side of my family in my generation. I do not know about the younger generation. I do not have the lefty hook in writing and people say I have a very pretty handwriting. Especially for a lefty. I do some things with my right hand like use scissors and the mouse no problem. The mouse made it easier to write and click on things I needed without moving from mouse to pencil. I even learned to crochet without a mirror. I saw what my mom was doing and just did it on the opposite hand. You are just experiencing what it is like for a left handed person to live in a right handed world. Try being a left handed mom and teach her right handed children to write and do all the things that you are experiencing. Since dad is left handed he could help in that area
My husband and I are both left handed(though somewhat ambidextrous). BOTH of our children seem to prefer their right hands to do most things. Thank goodness their preschool teachers are righthanded and could teach my son to write right.
Restringing a standard guitar to be a left handed guitar is muuuuuch more complex than a “ten minute job.” It involves changing the bridge and the hardware. Then you risk warping the guitar as standard guitars are designed to handle the strings a certain way… assuming it was an acoustic. Going from left to right definitely is another world and involves a lot of thinking, but if you already knew how to play, it really shouldn’t have messed you up that badly??? you were simply learning a new instrument, and quite honestly, it shouldn’t have messed you up as much as you say. I don’t know. My daughter is left handed. We both play right handed. The left hand does most of the work on a guitar anyway… but that’s coming from a righty. I guess…???? “Sorry hun”
Being a lefty is difficult in a right-handed world, but most of us can adapt. Don’t purchase left-handed scissors, don’t switch your computer mouse, don’t teach your child that they must learn how to use everything with their left hand. It’s actually a blessing. We can hold our pen and write as we scroll with the mouse. We can use a calculator and write at the same time or use a numerical keyboard. They will always have to carry their left handed scissors with them if that’s all they can use. Teach your child how to avoid the ‘hook’ or awkward looking writing technique because that is going to affect them later on. Teach them how to move a small piece of paper under their hand as it moves to avoid smudging. Teach them how to avoid the spirals or pages on a large bound book by bringing their elbow in. Encourage and help the teacher with tricky book layouts and have a sample sit on the side they can see even if it means copying every one of them. When they are old enough encourage them to move to the left of the desks, but it’s not just because they are left handed, it’s because right handers don’t even think about it and hog that space regardless. Teach them how to hit a baseball/softball as a lefty and a righty. It makes them a more valuable player as they will learn it quicker and master it better. Don’t do your head in trying to teach them how to tie their shoes left handed. There is no left handed way. Just show them A way to do it. Teach them how to knit or crochet in a mirror. Teach your child to use their cutlery the way we’ve all learned it. They will learn. They can look at it instead of you. Teach them how to think about adapting and they will succeed much better at everything in life because nothing is made to make it easy. Don’t wear your watch on your right wrist. I’ve always worn mine on my left and it’s no big problem. We adapt.
I agree with adapting to the right hand world – there are so many things that we can learn equally. Each are still personal preference. I choose to wear my watch on my right hand. Not because it us easier to put on, but because when I write with it on my left hand, the dial turn piece sticks me in my hand. I chose to use right handed scissors over left as I found I can keep the paper more steady with my left then my right. I agree with not changing the computer mouse around – definitely makes it easier to write notes at the same time. The Bunny ear method was a god send to me when I was finally shown it – I could never get my head around the “One loop, round the garden, through the hole” method… and being the only kid in my class that couldn’t tie their shoes was depressing! I remember my teacher getting so frustrated with me because I was always asking her or one of my class mates to help (I was not allowed to leave the laces done up like I did at home) and it wasn’t until our principal came into class one day and he taught me in one go that I managed to do it. The good news then was that he had a chat with all the teachers and from then on they taught both methods (which was awesome for my younger sister who is also a lefty)
Love this – thank you!
Mom of a little leftie
Love it. You right. When I was growing I had a special test to check if they can “change me” but my parents was told I am completely left sided (using left leg and left eye as dominant too) and they left me alone. Uff. I initially wrote everything backwards from the right to left, you can imagine my teacher… I definitely challenged them. 🙂
Yes! And I cut my steak with my right hand and don’t have to switch back and forth! ?
Amen!!! – Texas Lefty
Ok what is wrong with wearing a watch on the right wrist?
Here’s the thing with making letters as a lefty… It is more natural to “pull” the pencil toward your hand than to push it away. Therefore, when a lefty makes a capital letter F, we do the vertical line first, then go from right to left with the horizontal lines. That feels natural and works. Also, the letter O is done clockwise, not counterclockwise as a righty would do. I personally make checkmarks backwards because that feels natural. My hand does go over the letters but I don’t have a hook. I think people with the hook are compensating for having to form the letters by right handed rules.
Thank you for posting- my 4 yr old is a leftie and had a worksheet with a checkmark assignment and he kept doing them “backward” – makes sense now that you say it!
at work i am the only lefty and we do a lot of checkmarks!! this made me laugh because when you look down the list of checkmarks they all go the “correct” and then there is mine! so if something is messed up or incorrect and it’s my checkmark well it’s not hard to guess who did that one! I do the majority of things with my right hand. I am sure most of the leftys in here can say they can write with both hands!! I thin that is a win win for us!! Proud to be a lefty!!
Not all left handers do the circle clockwise!!
I have a lefty that is six years old & working on lots of fine motor skills. I cannot believe how hard I struggle to show him certain tasks because I struggle visualizing how it should look for him. Your post had lots of things I never even thought of being different for him!
One thing that helped me with the fine motor skills where those puzzle books you can get – like the tangled kite strings. First you look at it with your eyes, then follow it with your finger and then with a different coloured pen. This can be done with left or right handers – using the dominant hand for the activity. I’ve included a link below for the best example I could find 🙂 These particular ones are great, as you can start off simple and get them more complicated as they get older (or better with the activity)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X9XV2PmOChY/TS0jFhESizI/AAAAAAAABEc/KS4hG0laW5I/s1600/SAM_8171.JPG
Try using “mirror image” approach. Sit across, not next to your child, so his hands can do the same as yours.
Also, you can practice in front of a mirror to get an idea of how things look from his perspective
I think you should teach him no different than a right handed child!! just go about the way you would do something and your child will adapt! trust me! my mom and dad were both right handed and my brother and i are left handed! imagine that one! my mom never did anything different we just followed what she did! i think with her doing that i am able to do things with both sides of my body! To this day, I can’t cut with left handed scissors to save my life and a left handed mouse, nope! so don’t stress out over it just teach your child and he will get it!
Right. I was never taught to adapt. I just, did.
I am a lefty and so is my son. We have 1 lefty in each generation. When I was at school the teacher would constantly try and encourage me to use my right and it was out of the norm to use your left. It didn’t work, Im still a proud lefty. As for changing things to adapt I use my right hand to punch data entry, I use right handed scissor (easier that lefties), my mouse is on my right but I wear my watch on my left. Same all goes for my son. When my son was under a professor for medical reasons (who was also a leftie), he once told me that nearly 75% of brain surgeons where lefties, bit of trivia. Whilst I love being a leftie I did struggle with some things people tried to teach me to do, like knitting, crocheting and tying my shoes to name a couple. Don’t let anyone every tell you lefties that you are different…. To us you righties are the different ones. 🙂
Excellent tips! Both of my girls are left handed it my hubby and I are not so we do find it tricky to teach them proper ways to handle processes like cutting and writing etc that is comfortable for all of us. I am saving this post!
My dad was a leftie, just taught himself how to use right hand tools with left hand….slicing a tomato, operating large machinery, driving, etc….tying laces piece of piss – work boots tied a knot ends of lace, outing shoes zip up boots….bloody genius in my eyes.x
We have family of four left handers, I agree with All the tips apart using mouse. Easiest way it’s to move mouse on the left hand side of the keyboard but don’t swop buttons functionality (my personal theory is that this was designed by right handed person) 😉
I bought inginio tefal pans and I can put handle on my pans where I want.
I’m a left handed mum with 2 children and one is left handed and one is right handed. Personally I find this article really rather condescending and rather typical of how the ‘right hand world’ treat left handed people. We are normal people as well you know. Yes we ‘lefties’ as you call us (rather offensive do we call you ‘righties’? No we don’t cos it’s rude) do things slightly different but it’s fine- really it’s fine. No we don’t all hook our hands, no we don’t all write backwards. We don’t need the ‘bunny ears’ technique to tie our laces. We are actually quite clever people as we work out how best to live on a ‘right handed world’ by learning to adapt. We work out how to best use scissors and how to put the paper in a way that works best. I was hoping to enjoy this article, but it actually felt offensive and rather a pointless read.
As a left handed mum of a right handed daughter- shall I write a manual on how best to teach my child from a ‘lefty perspective’ cos it’s just the same difference!!!
I love your reply, I was offended reading this too. This article treats us ‘lefties’ as a different species. It almost makes you feel that being left handed is somehow wrong. I’m left handed and I’ve never struggled to write, use scissors or do anything else that a right handed person does. We adept and learn from observing what other people do, until I read this article I didn’t even know what a lefty hook was so like you said not everyone develops it. But I do agree with one thing when I was learning to write at school the teacher would show me how to form my cursive letters differently to other kids and that did make it easier
I am a leftie, and I had to teach my 2 righties how to tie their shoes. Best way is to wrap the first knot then fold the wings and rewrap them. When they started kindergarten the teacher tried to say they were doing it wrong. I have always said, “if it works, does it matter how it got there.” When my oldest told his teacher and showed her that it worked. She didn’t know how he learned that technique until I told her I am a leftie.
when teaching my daughter to cut with scissors, i sat opposite so that my right hand could help her left. this worked with many other things. i have also taught her to make sure she speaks up at the start of every year so that she sits on the left side of the desk so that theres no bumping elbows
As a left handed person I have done everything in the right handed word and did not need someone to help me do it. Knit taught myself from a book just reversed what it said to do, crochet the same, tat, embroider, I do everything left handed and never covered up my work as I was writing as I discovered to have my hand below what I was writing and I have beautiful handwriting. I also taught my daughter who is right handed how to knit, etc by my showing her how it is done right handed and taught myself to do it so she could do it. Now teaching my granddaughters how to knit right handed. I never found any problems with being left handed even scissors although when cutting out fabric it used to dig into my thumb if I continued it too long. But then got a pair of unihanded ones for both left and right. Attitude is what makes a lefty do alright in a right handed world as we use the right side of our brain.
As a “lefty” i always found using left handed scissors as impossible. My kindergarten teacher got so frustrated with me because I could NOT use left scissors…
I disagree that it is ok if letter formation is different. Being a teacher and a lefty myself, the other exceptions to letter formation should be the right-to-left crossing of a t, or any letter with a cross. Also. I write with a quad grip and do not believe the tri pod grip is essential.
Interesting read! I have a family of Lefties and proud of it! My husband and I are both left-handed and our son is left-handed. My husband throws right-handed but does most other things left-handed. I play tennis right-handed. I don’t know of many people that are able to use left-handed scissors. I work in a special day class and have noticed most students that are left-handed struggle more with fine motor skills. I feel my left-handedness helps me help this type of student. I also remember going through elementary school and thinking, I don’t get this. As I have learned later, it was the way my brain processing worked and I needed to be taught a different way. I love being left handed! We are the 10%!
I an lefty. I have been a kindergarten teacher and I am the child of teachers. Moms need to quite stressing over this… Really turn your paper as you write? No! Place the paper the mirror image of a righty. NO ISUUES with grip, smudges nothing… Just by placing the paper using the opposite mechanics behind it.
But 3 ring binders are the DEVIL!!
I learned with right handed sissors, mouse and calculator. I never knew there were special tools. Special tools creates a handicap where there shouldn’t be.
I work in a kitchen with all right handed people and the only thing I find challenging is using a right handed cookie dough scooper! luckily i can use both hands but tend to do a faster job with the left! I have asked several times for a universal scoop but no luck! I guess thats part of living in a right handed world!!
You forgot the easiest way to teach a left-handed person anything: sit across from them, not beside them. They will pick up what you are doing, as it is a mirror image.
And the statement lefties find it easier to learn to drive is irrepressibly untrue, if you are teaching them on a stick shift car. I eventually had to take my test on an automatic. I can now drive a stick, but on a vehicle nearly all of the important controls are on the right.
I was born a leftie, but now consider myself semi-ambidextrous. I remember there being two pairs of left-handed scissors in the huge bucket of scissors in kindergarten, which could never be found when needed. So, I quickly adapted to using the right-handed scissors. I couldn’t cut with my left hand today if my very life depended on it, if you tried to read my right-handed writing I’d probably have to translate for you. I write with my left, cut with my right, play racquet sports with my left, but bowl with my right. I think I could potentially accidentally kill someone if I tried to bowl with my left hand! I play guitar right-handed. Thankfully, I don’t deal with the leftie ‘hook’…. but to this day writing with a ballpoint pen does leave me with a smudged page and my ring finger covered in ink. Oh well…. I will survive!
When my son went to kindergarten, he would colour left-handed one day and right-handed the next. The teacher basically forced him to choose. He became right-handed, which made me a little bit sad in some respect, but in others, it obviously made life easier for him.
I’m a child of the 60s, my son is a child of the 80s. Interesting how some things have evolved over time and others have not. At least we’re no longer called devil children. 😀
I’m a lefty and all I will say is make sure you have left handed tin openers in your house, I keep forgetting to buy one and I swear I’ve thrown many a can of baked beans out the window before I got it open! The struggle is real ?
That’s ludicrous! Seriously! Get a fucking electric one or don’t eat canned food you really need t learn to adapt
I’m a lefty and I can’t imagine having a problem with a can opener. We’re all different, eh? Stay strong, lol. :o)
i’m left handed and grew up using everything right handed. I lived and learned to adjust. My son is also left handed and they wanted to supply everything left handed while he was in school. I told them no. The majority of things are done right handed and he will have to learn to deal with it. i’m 51 and function just fine and he does as well.
As a lefty who grew up with 2 right handed parents, grandparents, brother, & teachers – my advice to you as a right handed parent would be not to stress about it. Children, lefties included, are highly adaptable. While I do strongly disagree with those who would try to force a child to use something other than your dominant hand against their will. I can assure you that, as a left handed woman, I have been able to learn all the necessary life skills and in some ways have even become ambidextrous. Playing a righthanded guitar hasn’t ever been a possibility, but I can use both right and left handed scissors with ease. I am perfectly capable of fluidly transitioning between right handed and left handed products, with the exception of writing and eating. Given some things are an annoyance, such as smearing ink or lead from pencils over my hand. I rarely use pencils now, and I’m pretty particular about my pens having ink that does not smear. However, I’m kind of glad I grew up a leftie in a right handed world. I’ve found that my right side has compensated and is physically stronger, and my left side is still perfect for anything that requires precision. Perhaps some would argue that I shouldn’t have had to adapt, but I would say that life itself requires adaptation. Also as someone who has studied martial arts, I can say that there are great benefits to being able to use both sides of your body equally well if possible. Don’t worry about how to teach your leftie. He/she will learn and adapt well. You are doing a great job.
I found shoe lace tying was easier with my lefty than with my righty. I was able to sit opposite him and he was watching me do it backwards.
I am a lefty, as is my husband, so teaching my right handed son to tie his shoes was a bit of a challenge. Other than that I did not encounter most of the difficulties you described as I was growing up. I have very nice handwriting and I do not have a lefty “hook”. I have never used lefty scissors and manage fine.I did get a “blue pinky” from dragging my hand over my writing, but it was a minor annoyance. In college I used the lefty desk at the end of the row in lecture centers or used the desk to my left – not a problem. I have no trouble using a mouse with my right hand. Being a lefty is great – no need to make it an “issue” 🙂
I’m an old leftie (50+). My mum taught me many things with us (including tying laces and knitting) both facing a mirror
As a lefty, my advice is to teach them to adapt as much as possible to a right handed world. Encourage them to use their right hand whenever possible. Teach them to use right handed scissors with their right hand. Left handed scissors are not always available. Teach them to use a mouse with their right hand as most computers are set up with the mouse on the right. They can do those things with their right hand while still eating and writing with the left hand. I remember a teacher insisting I use left handed scissors. I would put the scissors in my right hand as I had learned at home. Of course they would not cut. I do just fine with regular scissors in my right hand. Being left handed does not mean you cannot do things with your right hand.
You are making way too many assumptions about what lefty’s need to do. I have never had a problem cutting with right handed scissors. I hold my pencil the same as a right handed person and I don’t write with the left handed hook. Your kids will be fine. Don’t force them to do things that you think they should be doing. You have no idea what is easiest because you are right handed. Give your kids some credit. They are smart. They will know what works for them and they will figure it out – just like the other million lefties in the world
I was in 9th grade before a teacher said: Turn the paper, not your hand. It made all the difference! In the days when students were graded on penmanship, I failed miserably. After exercising my teachers recommendation, I made a very nice living with my calligraphy and engrosser script abilities. For what it’s worth, being a leftie for over 50 years, I offer this ~ don’t cater too much to lefties … when left to their own clever devices, lefties become beautifully ambidextrous! ?
Hi
I’m a teacher and your points about writing are spot on and excellent. I also give my lefties a writing slope as it helps them to see what they have written and helps them to position their book.
I’m a leftie. I literally just turn my paper 90 degrees. So much easier.
I knew my son was left handed before he was even born. People laughed at me when I told them my unborn child was left handed. Even when I sad ” oh look, they are left handed”, in the Dr’s office during the ultrasound they thought I was crazy. But I told them, I’m not crazy, look at the picture, he is sucking his left thumb. Well I have a handsome 24 year old southpaw.
I am left handed when I went to school the desks were cut for right handed pool I would sit half way out of the desk and turn the paper sideways to write being left handed is hard in this world. But it is easier than it used to be
Being a leftie myself I find this article to be a little condescending. I agree with teaching the proper writing but acting like we can’t adapt to anything in the right-handed world is ridiculous. Using right-handed scissors is nearly impossible” please. I actually don’t like using left-handed scissors. Sitting next to people isn’t that big of a deal if you don’t put your elbows out like you are trying to fly and I learned to tie my shoes just fine, too. I never felt like I struggled through grade school just because I was left-handed. The problem isn’t that they can’t do it it is that right-handed parents can’t model it. It’s why you sometimes see lefties playing sports right-handed.
My 8 years daughter is a lefty. I do my best to accomodate her needs, from that triangle pencil to finding pen that didn’t smudge as she’s writing. But world really can be so cruel. From convincing my family that she’s just as normal as other kids, facing bullies that forced me to take her out of her school, to a mayor who put big banners on the street telling eating with left hand is a sin.
I’m a leftie no one in my family is or ever has been there is an excellent left handed website called everything left handed and when I was a lot younger teachers used to rap me over my left knuckles with the edge of a wooden ruler but I carried on being a lefties try using your left hand to do basic jobs and you will understand what your kids are dealing with
I and my two boys are lefties. Writing was indeed the most difficult task for them. When using binders I start at the back page and work forward so that my hand isn’t bumping the binder spine.
Learning a guitar with the strings running the opposite to the norm was not useful as no-one could teach me for they were right-handed players and they couldn’t get their head round it.
Of course, I was also discouraged,strongly, from writing with my left in school. In school we were taught to knit in class. We were six years old. The teacher told us what to do and we all followed what she did. I was doing okay until I made a mistake. She couldn’t understand what I was doing and then she realized that I was left-handed. So, again, I just had to adapt to right-handed world if I wanted to learn!
Nowadays I don’t think anyone learns short-hand. I was slower at writing it than others and then I figured it out. I had to push the pencil forward as opposed to the right-handed method of pulling the pencil across.
Good luck with it – you will all be fine!
Keep in mind right or left handed parents. Don’t force your child to be left handed. They will figure out which hand works for them. I had a harder time with some tasks because I wrote left handed, everything must be taught left handed, but did a lot right handed. They kept giving me left handed scissors and I could not use them. I am also right eye dominant, so when I was taught to shoot, I had a hard time hitting the target. Until I figured it out why. Writing I could never figure out why the hooked hand writing. Until I had a teacher try to make me write that way. She said I was holding my paper wrong because I had the paper horizontal. The top of the page was to the right. I just wrote down the page. I can’t remember smudging the letters the way I wrote and yes my check marks are left handed checks.
For more information on raising left handed kids I found the website http://www.leftys.com.au
It has an online shop but also facts pages on how to help your left handed child.
Found it very interesting
Parents – please, please tell your left-handed little ones to turn their paper to the right (clockwise) when writing. I mean really turn it, a good 45 degrees or more. This eliminates the hook, the smears, the inability to see what you’re writing, and spiral notebooks are easier to deal with. I’ve been so, so grateful all my life to the teacher who told me to simply turn my paper.
These are wonderful tips. My partner and I are both righties (I’m pretty sure I was supposed to be a lefty-but things happen) and our daughter is showing signs of being a lefty. We recognize this will be a more difficult path for her, but we want to encourage her to be true to herself. Thank you, a million times, thank you!
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My toddler is left handed. I read that left handed people are more likely to be dyslexic.
Is there any truth to this?
Most children have a preference for using one hand or the other by the age of about 18 months, and are definitely right or left-handed by about the age of three. If your child is naturally left-handed, don’t try to force them into using their right hand.
These are wonderful tips. My partner and I are both righties. We recognize this will be a more difficult path for her, thank you!
I don’t think there is anything bad in being left-handed, however, gaming is another way to enjoy your left hand even more.
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