CALLING ALL LEFT HANDERS, ADVICE NEEDED PLEASE

[GreenOnions]

questions, questions...

how soon can you tell if your child is going to be left handed?

dd is 6 months and today i had a 'lightbulb' moment,

she holds/grabs toys with her left hand,

eats her rusk with her left hand,

chews her left fingers,

sucks her left thumb,

offers her left hand to hold,

lays on her left side,

holds her bottle with her left hand,

none of which bothers me,

but after reading some online research on left handedness should i be worried in any way?

if you are left handed, did you/do you feel it hindered you in any way?

do you consider yourself worse off/better off/no different than if you where right handed?

are you more creative/imaginative/musical or is all that rubbish?

thanks

do macs not have mice then?

I actually have no idea which hand ds holds the mouse it, but setting up the buttons is just programming your brain.
If buttons had been set up the other way round that is how we would all use them.
What am I missing?

I am going to experiment with him now.

6 months! Take a chill pill. Kids are ambidextrous till 3.

Macs have round mice.

Squonk - on a mac, you don't use a mouse, you use your tongue.

Okay, they just don't have left/ right buttons.

By ChasingSquirrels on Tue 13-Jan-09 22:26:55
lol at 3 crayons.
I think some (most?) aren't clear until a bit later, but some are so blatently obviously L or R. Although I have heard of those than then swap.
My ds1 reached out with his left, grabbed with his left, if given things to his right put them into his left, and just continued to be more and more pronounced in this as he grew.

so you KNEW from early on?

SQUONK, dd was breech, as well as difficult to carry, pre eclampsea, blah blah, was scanned from week 5 on and off till week 37,

LOL. You go mess with his head chasing squirrels

Do macs not have left and right buttons then?

Oooh - xposts

i'm on a mac now and it has a normal mouse

i find it does get confused and i have to hit esc a lot. the wee track ball has given up i think, will only scroll up not down.

if she is offered to her right she swops to her left,

I also have a pen instead of a mouse on my studio computer.

a mac mouse

We have a track ball as well, but tend to plug the conventional mouse in for the littlies as their fingers aren't big enough to reach the buttons (aww, bless!)

fishie- open it up and clean the crud out- that's the usual problen with trackball mice.

KNEW? well I can say yes because he is, so I have been proved right - but that might not have been the case, and if he had swapped I wouldn't be posting on this thread.
I first noticed his preference at months old, he never did anything that made me suspect that preference would change. As I posted earlier he would (as soon as he learned to move things from one hand to another) swap things into his left hand, he always used his left hand.
I stopped thinking about it at some point (quite early), hence me not actually knowing which hand he uses for the mouse.

Do mac mouses not have buttons then??

x-posted on mac mouse, so it just has one button.

no alas it is one of those with a scroller in top. the bottom is fine.

CS tries to think what she uses the other button for, you just use it don't you!
ds2 (nearly 3) has just learned to use the mouse and keeps using the wrong button - mainly because his hand isn't big enough to reach.

what i said re pointing mouse at 2pm and finger at noon works very well. try it yourselves just so you will see how lh have to adjust to 'normal' settings.

that's a shame, fishie.

chassing squirrels that sounds like me- I always set the table left handed but just use everything else as is for a right handed person -it can be a problem insome situations you need to turn things upside down- I know left handed guitarists do this.

ok - so I am now using mouse in left hand pointed like that. feels ok.
Am going to watch him next time he is using.

thanks CS,

i think i know,

dp disagrees,

time will tell i guess,

it is something i never thought about until yesterday,

i gave her a rusk and she took it with her left hand,

she dropped it so i offered it again, left again,

when she dropped it (down the side of the highchair) again, i tried to encourage her to hold it with two hands,

she kept the right hand down by her side and only wanted to hold it with her left,

each time she dropped it she got angry with herself and kept on trying to grab it back from me using her left hand,

at 6 months she is still learning all these important stills and i know this might change but i just have a 'feeling' she will be a 'leftie'

i only found out her grandad is a leftie after talking to dp about my 'left handed findings' earlier today

I noticed it because it was such an obvious preference.
And thought about it because I'm not LH, and none of my family are.
But I didn't DO anything to try and stop it, it is just what he is, like he is a boy, or had brown hair.
Obviously I am now thinking about the mouse though