Here's quite an interesting one for you ...
My DS (4 in November) had, up until recently, been showing that he was right handed ... favouring his right hand when eating, drawing, painting, hammering etc etc.
I am right handed but DH is a bit strange (no surprises there ... ). DH does everything one handed with his right hand - writing, holding his knife, playing tennis. But is left handed with everything he does two handed ... so he plays cricket and golf left handed.
Anyway ... DH was playing golf in the garden with DS and noticed that with his plastic golf clubs DS seems to be taking after his dad and is favouring his left hand with the golf club and with his little cricket bat.
So ... what to do? Is it possible that he genuinely is like his daddy? Or is he still too young to tell and is he just getting it confused? Should we encourage the left handed thing when he does these games and continue encouraging his right hand in other stuff? Should we just wait and see?
The thing is that DH is a huge golf and cricket fan and is itching to teach DS ... and now is delighted that DS seems to be like him and so teaching him will be easier ... so does he actively 'teach' him the left handed way?
Oh dear ... I don't think I am expressing myself very well here.
I am not at all worried or bothered if DS does turn out to be left handed or a bit of both like DH ... I just want to know the best way to take it so as not to confuse DS and not have some teacher in the future say that we have made him cack handed or anything ... I mean do I start to encourage him to use his left hand at other things too or do I just leave the right handedness as it is.
Or should I not be bothering about this and should I just see what happens??
FWIW ... he is really very good at the left handed golf/cricket .... (DH has visions of being the father of the next Tiger Woods/Ian Botham!) so he does actually look quite comfortable ....
What a ramble ... if anyone is able to unravel this badly written post I would be grateful for any advice/ideas/suggestions ....
Cheers ...