Teaching left handed children to write

[Derbybound2022]

I have a child started in year 1, who hates to write. They are starting to do cursive handwriting that always starts on the line and finding it so hard. They can't see what they're writing and with the whiteboard pens their hands get dirty going over them or holding their hands up to avoid this. With finger spacing too, is there anything they can use? Apparently given nothing do far at school and I want to meet the teacher to ask how they can support as left hander. I have heard of left handed rulers and sharpeners too.

I think it's all rubbish. In my family 4 out of 6 of us are left handed and none of us had a problem with smudging writing. It's no more difficult to push a pen than pull. (And I learned to write in in the days of fountain pens).

The only difficulty we had was with scissors,

Pretty much everything is right-handed, from tin openers, to zip pulls, to a million other things. It takes longer to manage some of these tasks/implements for a left-hander, but it's best to get used to the right handed items from an early age.

lefthandedchildren.org

I'm right handed. mostly, but both my Mum and Sister were total lefties. Put a pair of scissors in my right hand and I can't cut butter, in my left it's a breeze