Left handed question

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My dd2 is nearly 3 and favours her left hand for drawing, eating and everything.
I am sure she is left handed. I am not going to try and make her use her right as I know this causes problems.
My questyion is to all the lefties do you find any problems with being left handed or do you have to by left handed tools ect (can openner, scissors ect)
I stress I am not going to try and change her favoured hand as I do not want to get into a debate about it as I have already seen many of those on here. I am just woundering if I need to help her as she gets older in any way

oh yes - that's how I do it at home as well!

I am completely left-handed - only eat and play golf right-handed -
I never had any lefty things - use regular scissors and a swivel veggie peeler etc and just turn them around to suit me

• the things that drive me scatty are cheque books, spiral notebooks, fountain pens and wallets that open up the wrong way. My all time favourite annoyance is packs of cards - I can't fan them out like a right- hander and have all the little numbers in the top right-hand corner IYSWIM - If I try that with my left hand I just get blanks - so have to feed each card into my hand - can be a total PITA when you play.

Cut bread like a demon, but that's because my leftie dad taught me, write "straight up" (like a right-hander) and handwriting is fine, can't crochet for shit and was the secret weapon on my fencing team!

I remember smudgy ink in school. Got over that one.

most schools provide left handed scissors. my son and I are lefthanded, hubby and other son righthanded - weird!

Coolmama - Golf, cards, Fencing - I am impressed!!

golf, cards, fencing indeed! I'm feeling light headed in such high flying company though I did take a stab at my brother with a rapir once and play a wicked game of putput golf

Yes, I'm not so bad at a touch of the "Crazy" stuff myself!!

Hana, how weird I didn't realise that the change mat thing could be a lefty thing. I'm totally lost if DS head is on my left, it has to be on my right.

Have informed DH that under no circumstances am I allowed near a loaf of bread as I am biologically disposessed to massacre it. So he'll just have to cut his own bread from here until eternity. Now what else can I get out of....

I remember learning to knit in school and the teach couldn't show me because i was left handed. I iron with my right hand, and I just realised that I change dd's nappy with my right hand too. Weird.

all sounds fabulous - you should see me do this stuff - a slightly different story

Interesting about the shoe-tying. Not something I've ever thought about it. I was taught to tie laces by my dad who was a rightie and don't remember it being too much trouble to learn. I'll have to tie some laces for my DH later and see whether I tie them differently to him!!? Mmmmmmmmmmmmm......... Curiouser and curiouser .........

When we had DD1 we used terry nappies and pins and you could always tell who had done the nappy last because of the direction the pin was facing (quite a useful device when it came to disagreements) - Then we discovered nappy nippas (much safer, but more agruments!!)

I have a left handed tin opener. dh and I are both lefties and both of our girls appear to be righties so we're having great fun trying to teach dd1 to write!

I enjoy being left handed. I write upside down, have to have left handed scissors. Looks like my ds will be left handed too, am pleased about that.

Another Upside Down Writer - Yey!!