At what age could you tell if your children were left/right handed?

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I was at bounce and rhyme at the library the other week and a lady there handed my son (nearly 1) something which he took with his left hand, so she asked if he was left-handed. I haven't really given it much thought. He uses both hands, though on balance I'd say he seems to favour his right hand (both DH and I are right-handed but my dad is a leftie). Not that it matters at all really, but now I'm wondering when other parents were able to tell their children's handedness for definite.

DD4 has been quite definitely a leftie from as soon as she could reach for toys. It must have been quite pronounced as we didn't notice dd1-dd3's right handedness until they started preschool really.

DD seemed to be left handed from about 18mo. She's 3 now and is definately left handed.

DS has always been right handed.

Not til about four. Really thought she'd be left-handed but seemed to settle with right in school. A few years later she can still write with left too but its now underdeveloped.

DD has been left handed since the first rattle as well. She's 3.9 now and as left as left can be. No doubt at all.

Ds1 is a lefty and has been since he started reaching for toys.
Good job really as both DP and I are left handed and I imagine teaching him to do things the opposite way might be tricky!

DS1 is left handed for writing but favours his right hand for a lot of other things eg. playing tennis.

For that reason, I suppose we only realised he was left handed once he started to pick up crayons and draw as a toddler.

DD is definitely left handed at 2.7. We thought she might be from very early on (around 5-6 months iirc) as we would put the spoon/toy etc in her right hand and she would swap it over!

DH and I are both RH but my parents are both LH. I will be getting my Mum to show her how to tie her shoelaces etc.

We're not too concerned about it tbh but will prob get LH scissors when she's a little older.

As soon as ds could reach for things, he was markedly left-handed. And left footed!

DS was 4 when he settled for his right, up to that point he favoured his left. dp and MIL are left handed and did everything they could to encourage left handed use, I didn't care a jot which handed he was and did absolutely nothing to encourage him either way

To this day (he's almost 6) they still try to hand him and put everything to his left hand side

My dad and sister are left handed, my mam and I are right handed
My husband and son are left handed, our daughter and I are right handed.
Everyone except dd (right handed) eat as if they are right handed.

My one problem is: If I go to hand some one something (ie money at the shops) I hand it to them straight down the middle, it confuses everyone

So baring in mind my weirdness for aiming for the middle of people's chests when handing them something, it was pretty obvious, as soon as my babies could grasp what hand they would prefer.

Ds has Cerebral Palsy on his right side. I was so when a snooty Teaching Assistant was adamant that we had made ds left handed. HOW!!! I was aiming for the middle of his chest not his left hand ffs!

DS always favoured left, but he does use both still (he's 4). He draws with both too (pen in each hand) - it certainly saves time.

I've been wondering this as ds always uses his left to draw and his right to brush his teeth, and usually his right to eat with - but everything else is random - he's 3.2.
Hoping he ends up more coordinated than me, either way.

ds1 is 3 1/2 and i could tell when he was a baby he seemed to favour his left hand. he seemed to be doing more with his right recently but his nursery teacher said he's very left handed so i think he probably will be. i keep trying to get him to use his right hand more and feel guilty but it's meant to stimulate the brain to use both sides isn't it?!

my other 2 younder ds's do more with their right hands so i'm sure will be right handed.

As soon as they sucked their thumbs and reached for things, all three of them. And dd2 only four months. Been clear for at least a month.

I knew before my son was one. I remember on his first birthday he picked up the cake with his left hand, bashed the bowl for more cake with his left cake, threw the spoon at me with his left hand! and all the time, people said, ah no, it's too soon to tell whether or not he is left-handed. He is though!

I thought DS was going to be left handed, but he switched when he was about 2 and is now right handed.

DD (10 months) has favoured her left hand as soon as she started to reach out for things. We did BLW and has always gone for her favourite foods with her left hand and taken a loaded spoon with her left hand. She does use her right hand but seems to prefer what is in the left one.

Today my parents bought her a xylophone, we showed her first how it worked, pick up stick hit coloured plates, put it on the floor in front of her she picked up the stick, in her left hand, and started banging away.

I think we have only really noticed it because we are all right handed. Only time will tell if she will continue to favour it but it certainly seems to be heading that way.

My ds is 2 and uses both hands quite equally from what I can see so I still have no idea. If I ask him to take something he uses his right mostly, then when scribbling drawing its usually his left.

DD is nearly 7 months. Reaches for things and holds things with left hand and sucks fingers on left hand as well. I don't know if it is too early to tell if she is left handed. My Mum is left handed, perhaps it could be inherited?

It took years for ds to make up his mind. He was in Reception before he really settled on his right hand. My family is 3 lefties, 3 righties and 1 ambidextrous so it was no surprise.