Left hander

[PrettyCandles]

3yo ds2 appears to be firmly left-handed. The only left hander in either family, AFAIK. He seems to be managing well with regular scissors, as well as you'd expect any 3yo to do. Do I need to buy him LH scissors, or any other LH equipment, or would it be better to encourage him to get used to a RHded world?

And wine bottles too...

I am right handed and do my O clockwise.

and dp is right handed and does his anti-clockwise.

ds1 is left handed and is fine with normal scissors better than some of his right handed counterparts.

I as I said am right handed but can only yo yo with my left hand as I broke my right wrist twice and was in plaster when those coke spinners were the craze.

Nickelbabe, fascinating website - I never knew there were so many products for LH's!

DD is the only LH in our family, and she was always LH from the moment she tried to feed herself and she's now 10
However, she has learned to write very neatly and quickly - just the usual way RH's learn to write, and she doesn't smudge her writing, even with a fountain pen!

I find it difficult to show her how to use kitchen gadgets (like grating / peeling) being RH myself.

Left handed ds1 also has had a perfect pincer grip since he was 3 and the teacher was really suprised.

When he holds a pencil I mean.

I am left handed and had lots of help from my primary school teacher when learning to write, taught me to angle the page when writing so didn't smudge.I write my O's clockwise. I am useless with potato peelers and pencil sharpeners.I love left handed scissors. Another thing that always gets me is when people give you a spoon and fork to eat puddings/desserts with. No good for me as I hold them both in the same hand!
At school when we played rounders, everyone would shout left hander, then the fielders would all move in preparation, and without fail I would miss the ball. [wink0

Out of my list from before the ruler was really useful. (Bonus he will probably find it easy when he uses a romer!)

I'm left handed and there are a lot of left handers in my family. There is not much difference with the teaching skills. The only thing that used to make me mad was reading a pencil upside down lol. That and getting lead on my hand from writing.

And just thought I'd share with you.....one of my fav teachers in school ( who also happened to be left handed) once told me "We left handers must live in a right handed world!" I've always remembered that.

It looks as if both my DCs are going to be left handed even though me and DH both right handed. was worried about learning to write etc, adn then i saw barak obama, being left handed and holding his pen in a very funny way hasn't stopped him achieving....
(not that either of my children will become president of the US!)

I'm ambi and write my o's anticlockwise with both hands! Sorry Portblack.

I eat left-handed and in restaurants I always switch the cutlery as soon as I sit down. In the posher restaurants they tut and switch it back if they don't realise it was me, they think someone laid the table wrong

My biggest is fish knives and those dessert fork/knife thingys. Both are impossible for leftys. I always have a little tug-of-war with the waiters when they put down my nice fish knife and try to take my normal knife away!

my DD has left hand scissors (ELC I think ) but they aren't very sharp, so she tends to use the small ikea ones.

I think she might be having some of the 'challenges' of writing..

Mmmcoffee: get yourself onto anything left-handed and buy a left-handed cake fork! they're great!

upside-down pencil writing: yes that's maddening too! although i can read excellently upside-down, so it's okay!

potato peelers: in the olden days they only had a blade on one side, so I have always (and both my parents, being left handed have always) peeled away from the body. right-handers scrape the peel towards their hand, but i scrape away from it. i personally think this is a much safer way of peeling, because if the peeler slips, i can't do myself any harm! aoll you left-handers that don't do this, try it, you'll be surprised how much easier it is to peel!

wrt Os: i was taught to do my Os anticlockwise, but when i was about 11, i found out that apparently some lefties do them clockwise, so i started to do that. it was very awkward when i started it (bit like me then! ) and now i chop and change between clockwise and anti- depending on what word i'm writing.

oh, i use my computer mouse in my left-hand too.
there's a programme that you can download from google that switches it from left- to right- and back again by pressing ctrl+f12. very useful on a shared computer!

I didnt realise being left handed caused so many problems and im left handed myself! Like someone further down the thread said, there must be degrees of left handedness.

As for writing O's I used to do them clockwise but then in my teens (when my handwriting would change every week!) I discovered my handwriting was neater if I did it anti-clockwise.

Another thing about being a left-hander today is that there seems to be more of them about. With DC1 I was concerned about it when she started school, but as over a third of the children in her class were left-handed it didn't seem like it was going to be a problem. I think that DC2's class had a similar left/right hand split, too (he's another left-hander).

Ds2 (6) is left-handed. Tbh he's never needed any special equipment. I think the only problem he's ever had with writing is if he's sitting on the right-hand side of a table at school next to a right-handed child and they end up bumping arms when writing.

MadameDeathstare my ds is RH, but he frequently wrote mirror writing when he first started - I had to point out to his teacher that the squiggles at the bottom of the picture formed his name backwards...

Although I do admit that when he started grasping for things as a baby with his lefthand , I always gave them to him in his righthand as a lot of things, like writing, are easier for RHers.

DS2 is left handed. He's almost 8. He used left handed scissors in nursery when he was learning to cut, but never got on that well with them. We don't have any left handed things in the house atall.

I wonder if he's ambidextrous (sp?) though as he writes with his left hand, but can do almost anything else with either hand. My mum's ambi too.

mistlethrush!

i'm very proficient at mirror righting too. although it doesn't look like my normal writing, it is beautifully neat in mirror. it's weird.
and i can write right-handed too, but not both left and right at the same time (because the letters go backwards sometimes)

I learnt to write left handed when i burnt my hand at age 6, and every now and then practise it because it's quite a cool party trick!

try that again
i learnt to write right-handed when i burnt my left hand!!!