left handed but writes with right- likely to change?

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DD is 2.8 - she is definitely left handed in the sense that she has always held her spoon, picked things up, sucked her thuumb etc with her left, but she always colours and draws with her right. she makes no attempt to try the pen/cils in her left.

Is this normal? is she likely to change ( presumably the wiritng hand, she has always seemed to be left ) Does it matter?

Sounds like me and lets just say I'm a little older then 2.8! At school, a teacher told my mum I was a right hander with left handed tendencies. According to the teacher, it was unusual, but nothing to worry about.

I agree.

That sounds really interesting and sounds a bit like what my sister told me I was like. I did not finally decide which hand to use for writing until I was nearly 7 apparently.
Could there be some copying involved? My dd2 went through a phase of trying to eat with her left because her sister sat opposite her eating with her right.
Or your dd is as ambidextrous as me. I still use my left hand for more things than my right but do write right handed.
Nothing to worry about

i'm a bit like this.

I write with my right hand, but eat with my cutlery the other way round, play guitar left handed, use sports rackets/stick with my left hand etc.. It's possibly because I was pushed away from left hand writing at school, but I'm never sure whether I'm right or left handed. Doesn't really bother me, and now I'm older, I find it quite interesting.

DS2 was like this. He used both hands seemingly at random. When he started school he was 4.5 and still not obviously right or left handed. I didn't want to force him to go the "wrong" way.
We were lucky he was at a tiny village primary with only 6 in reception. I talked to the teacher and we agreed that they would observe him closely and not seek to encourage either hand for writing.
After about 3 months the general consensus was that his right hand was dominant and he was taught to write right handed.
He's 14 now and fairly ambidextrous.

I'm like this too. I'm left handed for everything except writing and slicing veg - weirdly I use my left hand for my knife when I'm eating but my right when I'm preparing food. I can write (and slice!) with my left hand, just tend to use my right.

Came in dead handy when I broke my right wrist 6 weeks before my mock exams!