Have just started to encourage my 3yo dd to try to use a knife when having dinner (the kiddie friendly variety, of course!). Have just been putting it on the table for her to have a play with and have been demonstrating how to use it etc.
Although she appears as though she is right handed - holds pencils in right hand etc, she does seem to want to eat left handed - ie hold knife in left hand and fork in right hand. This dosn't surprise me as I'm the same and so is my brother (my mum insists she told us the 'proper' way to eat!) and dh is left handed.
I don't have a problem with this and have always been baffled by comments from aghast friends and relatives that I eat 'the wrong way' - does it really matter, FFS!! Who decided this was the 'right' way anyhow - so what?....what do you all think?
Don't want her to be considered an oddity (as, in a very diluted way, I have thro peoples comments, tho it dosn't bother me one bit)...but I really don't care how she wants to eat and would rather, like me, she just feels comfortable with it. I'm more bothered that she observes good table manners and dosn't chomp and talk with her mouth open - that drives me mad and makes me feel quite ill when people do that.
It dosn't matter, does it??