Is dc left handed after all?!

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When dd was young a few people thought she might be left handed. I kind of brushed it off and when she started a nursery attached to her school they started teaching them to write aged 3 and asked me and I just said right handed as I had no idea.

Dd is now 6 and just said to me mummy I can write nicer with my left hand but I don't tell anyone. I said write me a sentence then. And she's right it's nicer with the left hand.
Should I do anything? She cuts with right handed scissors and seems to get on ok with cutlery. She's pretty much been raised right handed it's only that her writing with her left hand is nicer that's got me thinking.

One leftie here and he complains if I put the chopping board ”backwards” 🤣

I write left handed, use a spoon left handed, scissors right handed, knives right handed, eating and cooking. Play snooker and ten pin bowling with whichever hand is best for the shot. I rifle shoot left handed as i am left eyed.
I can write with my right hand but not as quickly or neatly.
Just let her do her own thing, she will work out what is best for her.

Oh, and left handed can openers are gods gift.

This is really interesting. My DP eats with his knife and fork the opposite way round ie knife in left hand, writes with right hand but plays golf left handed and guitar right handed. I'm convinced that he may have been "encouraged" to be right handed at school in the 60s. I would just leave her to do things whichever way she wants op

Just let them use whatever hand they are comfortable with. It's a pity she feels she has to not tell anyone about it - I thought strange ideas about being left handed had died out with my MIL (who never passed up an opportunity for a snarky "you look so odd doing it that way" comment) , but it'll be fine.

This thread is really interesting. I'm the only lefty in a house of righties, but our house is a real muddle. Everyone uses the mouse with their left hand, as that was how it was always set up on my desk so they just went with it when they were little. I eat "right handed" but two of the DCs eat "left handed". Also I use right handed scissors but in my left hand Seems to work!

My DP eats with his knife and fork the opposite way round ie knife in left hand

My brother and I both do this too even though we are right handed. My mum couldn't work out why, then realised that my dad is a leftie and we'd copied him our whole lives

I’m left handed but except for writing I can do everything with both. My son is also left handed and he is the same I think it’s quite common.

I love being a leftie...you learn to be ambidextrous.

I write, iron, play tennis etc, push the hoover, brush hair, use hair dryer, use a tin opener, left handed.

I pour the kettle, eat, use scissors, use a golf club, type on my phone, right handed.

The best thing i ever found was a left handed ruler 😊

I also write left-handed - I can do most things with both hands fairly evenly - apart from use scissors. Or throw a ball - I'm equally crap both sides when throwing anything

Most people who use both hands for some things aren't really ambidextrous.

Ambidextrous is being able to use both hands for everything.

I can write with both hands, can use my left hand for a lot (and prefer it for some things), but actually I'd be mixed handed not ambidextrous.

Sadly, though, I've come across some people who seem to have a real issue with left handers, and it's not always the older people who grew up when left handers were forced to write with their right hand (like a relative of mine).

Haha some of these responses are really making me laugh. I know 'the claw' my sister is left handed and tbh I didn't really want dd to be left handed as a result. It all seemed so annoying.

My sister had
A 'left handed' guitar
Hockey stick
You can forget using a fountain pen unless you have a really talented claw
Scissors
When in the office she said the desk drawers were on the wrong side.
I know not the end of the world but just a bit of an extra pain.
Watched dd again today and she turns everything anti clockwise. Never ever noticed before. Decided today she would write with both hands but was actually noticeably slower at writing numbers with her left hand, definitely neater though. I don't know!

Must add I have never expressed I didn't want her to be left handed out loud. Only an internal thought and also worked a million hours a week until recently so had zero influence on what hand anyway except to apparently incorrectly advise her school she's right handed !