Please re-assure me about my sensitive right brained creatively madening near 4 yo DS

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I worry so much about him. I have posted before about some of the issues. He is left handed and whilst that is not an issue, I have been reading up on right brained children and realise that he might struggle in such a left brained world. My DS and I are both engineers and very practical and heavily left brained.

He seems especially sensitive to certain issues. there are a few major things that he is afraid of e.g. FC, dogs, the birds in Happy feet, The fox in Dora etc.. I believe it is cos of his overactive imagination.

Even his little brother knows not to watch certain stuff on TV cos it will scare his big brother. He also is very emotional and loses the plot very easily if things do not go his way.

He often plays on his own at Nursery because he doesn't want to do what the other kids are doing, and whilst I recognise that he won't be easily led I worry he won't be very popular. He starts school next year and I am not sure that he is emotionally ready although intellectually I think he is.

He also struggles with his writing as most LH kids do at first I think. This is improving.

Sorry to waffle!! Has anyone else had these worries? How do they manage left handed kids at school? THe schools I have vistsed say 'oh yes - we make sure they are sitting on the left when at a desk.' but surely this is not the only way of 'managing' left handed kids. They are not just left handed but right brained too!

My DD had lots of fears and phobias when she was little and to be honest the best thing with her was not to pander to them.
She was petrified of theatre curtains, but we never stopped taking her to the theatre because we knew once the curtains were open she loved the shows.
She was scared stiff of the cow peering over the hedge at the beginning of Rosy and Jim again if it was on she would run out of the room but we never turned it off and she would go back and watch the rest of it.
She is left handed and the only problem she has had at school is her handwriting which is truely awful. In infants she did worry when she they learnt about the wars quite a bit, but she talked to her nans who both lived through them and was fine.
Now she is 11 she doesn't have hardly any fears and is a very well balanced girl, who drives me mad fwink but does very well at school both socially and academically and has a wonderful imagination according to her teachers.

It sounds like you're getting good help as you re-describe the problem. It seems that using the terms "left-handed/right-brained" threw quite a few of us or made people think you were worrying too much. Always useful to see how shorthand terms can not get across the message you want to send! sounds like you've had good advice now .