Left-handed 6 year old boy, finds writing very difficult

[Dingbatgirl]

Hi ..... my ds is 6.3, and he is left-handed. Both myself and dh are right handed. My ds hates writing and he gets very frustrated at school. He refuses to write at home, but I would like to help and encourage him. When he is inspired, he likes to draw pictures of animals or aliens. Has anyone any ideas and advice? I feel that this is affecting his self-esteem as he compares himself to the other children and thinks he's not good enough.

Have you tried left handed pens and pencils like either the smove
or

yoro

Also does he use a left handed handwriting template.

DD 11 is left handed and her handwriting was awful until recently, when there has been big improvement.

my dd's teacher helped her, have you tried asking the teacher for advice?
i can't remember what she did apart from put her on the corner of the table, or somesuch - so she could rest her elbow on the table.
she has brill handwriting now. 4 years on

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Thanks for your advice everyone. I will try some left handed pens - he writes with a handhugger pencil at school. I haven't recently brought up the left-handed issue but my ds has started saying how difficult writing is (he doesn't usually talk about school) - on his IEP they are working on getting him to form f, y g and j and have given us some sheets to do at home.

I will go back to his teacher and ask what else they are doing - on his IEP they are trying to help him express his frustrations to an adult instead of sometimes hitting or crying - they've made a laminated cardboard 'helping hand' that he can take to an adult when he is feeling anxious or frustrated; I think this is mainly due to feeling he can't cope. At home, I will try some pen and paper games, we need to have some fun. The last thing I want to do is put pressure him, or he will be put off.

Interestingly, he is able at maths and science, and I read somewhere that most mathematicians are left-handed .... something to do with the right-hand side of the brain being more active?