Left Hander- how to correct?

[mathsparks]

taslyn:

i read an article somewhere before which mentioned that it is good for boys to be lefties but not so good for gers - boys get very far ahead in life being lefties while gers lag behind...

Just to reassure female lefties; I've at least 2 female colleagues who are lefties and very brilliant in their field of work....plus some of my female uni-mates are lefties too.

[taslyn]

csc:

[quote]the only irritating part is that sometimes my hand gets stained by the ink which has not dried...

That's true for my boy. That's why he uses ballpoint pen instead of those \"gel\" pens which smudge.[/quote]lol... ballpt pen leaks more for me coz sometimes the ink smudges.... but agree tat gel types r the worse.. my fave is pilot hitech point

[taslyn]

mathsparks:

taslyn:

i read an article somewhere before which mentioned that it is good for boys to be lefties but not so good for gers - boys get very far ahead in life being lefties while gers lag behind...

Just to reassure female lefties; I've at least 2 female colleagues who are lefties and very brilliant in their field of work....plus some of my female uni-mates are lefties too.

during my jc time, alot of my classmates are lefties, in fact, the \"smarter\" one are lefties....
as a female leftie myself, i always felt i was \"unique\" hehehe

:celebrate:

[blesseddad]

my mom trained my brother to use his right hand since young. He is now ambidextros.


i feel that most of the things in the world are made for right handed people. E.g. can opener.

So if you can use both hands, you will not be disadvantaged.

you can write without hooking your wrist nor smudge your handwriting.

You can always use your left hand for other things like what some shared, playing racket games, etc.

just my 2 cents worth.

[Picolo]

I am a left-hander, so is my hubby. However, only our youngest son is a leftie. I remember a research that reported that, the older the mother when she gives birth, the higher the chance her child is a leftie. Interesting. So far, this has proven to be correct based on my own experience - my mum is a leftie and when she gave birth to my younger bro and I, she was much older and my younger bro and I are lefties thou' our older siblings are right-handed. As for my hubby, he is the youngest and he is the only leftie in his family. And now, only my youngest is a leftie.


My old classmates used to admire my beautiful handwriting so much, they gave me a nickname. So, I don't agree that lefties always have bad handwriting.

taslyn:

...but not so good for gers - boys get very far ahead in life being lefties while gers lag behind...

Definitely sounds like nonsense to me

When I was in about pri 1, I could write with both hands. However, when speed became a concern (cannot dilly-dally) I started to lose the abilty to write with my right hand. When I was young, we used to have meals on round tables. So, it became a natural thing for me to hold my chopsticks with the right hand for practical reasons. Another practical thing that I do is to control my mouse with my right hand. I find that in this aspect, I am better off than those who can't cos I can write with my left hand and control the mouse with the right hand at the same time.

There's many things I have forgotten but surprisingly, I always have the image of my kindy teacher gently (and quietly) removing my pencil from my left hand and put it over to my right hand. I pretended to write with my right hand but once she walked away, I returned the pencil to my left hand... Strange that I always have this image and I wonder why...

[nonKiasu]

Hi, JHJC. Both my hubby and me are right handed. Among my triplets, I have a set of identical twins. My identical twins are actually opposite in almost everything - 1 leftie and 1 rightie. The leftie is a perfectionst while the rightie is easy-going (so easy-going that at 4 y.o, he don't care even the slippers are worn on the wrong side!).... and many countless opposites....


Now, I don't correct my leftie for many reasons. First, I am too busy (or lazy) to go against nature. Secondly, when they are 3 y.o, I tried to get his childcare teacher to support me but unfortunately she is a leftie too and had went thru the pain of being forced to use right hand (she still using left hand to write). I also found that his dominant eye is left eye. Finally, the most impt is that being a perfectionist, he is frustrated when he can't achieve nice handwriting. With his left hand, he writes beautifully. So, I think it is better to leave him as it is.

Yes, my hubby has the same concern as concern2 abt NS. He said that riffle for lefties are old technology. Glad to hear from 3boys that this is not true.

Picolo:

I remember a research that reported that, the older the mother when she gives birth, the higher the chance her child is a leftie.

Hi, Picolo. I think it is just coincident? I deliver my triplets at 36 (consider old enough?) and only 1/3 is leftie. (hee, what a percentage)

[3Boys]

nonKiasu:

Yes, my hubby has the same concern as concern2 abt NS. He said that riffle for lefties are old technology. Glad to hear from 3boys that this is not true.

Ok, did a little research; my bad :oops: , the new SAR21 is apparently a strictly right handed use weapon. Still, I wouldn't consider that to be a reason to enforce right-handedness on my son.

[Picolo]

nonKiasu:

Picolo:

I remember a research that reported that, the older the mother when she gives birth, the higher the chance her child is a leftie.

Hi, Picolo. I think it is just coincident? I deliver my triplets at 36 (consider old enough?) and only 1/3 is leftie. (hee, what a percentage)

Well, isn't it good enough? Higher chance doesn't mean 100% chance. Remember that lefties are still the minority. Anyway, just take info/statistics from research papers as a pinch of salt, as a wise gynae told me before, when an incident happens to you, it's either 1 or 0, nothing in between.

[nonKiasu]

3Boys:

nonKiasu:

Yes, my hubby has the same concern as concern2 abt NS. He said that riffle for lefties are old technology. Glad to hear from 3boys that this is not true.

Ok, did a little research; my bad :oops: , the new SAR21 is apparently a strictly right handed use weapon. Still, I wouldn't consider that to be a reason to enforce right-handedness on my son.

Did you manage to find out what is the riffle model for leftie? My hubby say it is more prone to injuries than those for right-hand ones. Hopefully, 13 years later, the technology for leftie is as good.

[3Boys]

nonKiasu:

3Boys:

[quote=\"nonKiasu\"]
Yes, my hubby has the same concern as concern2 abt NS. He said that riffle for lefties are old technology. Glad to hear from 3boys that this is not true.

Ok, did a little research; my bad :oops: , the new SAR21 is apparently a strictly right handed use weapon. Still, I wouldn't consider that to be a reason to enforce right-handedness on my son.

Did you manage to find out what is the riffle model for leftie? My hubby say it is more prone to injuries than those for right-hand ones. Hopefully, 13 years later, the technology for leftie is as good.[/quote]The old M-16 can be used left and right handed. The new SAR-21 looks like its right hand use only.