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I'm ambidextrous at just about everything (not completely- I suck at throwing with my left hand and my right handed tennis is abysmal), but I have learned to do certain things with certain hands just for ease (e.g., cutting with my right since that's just easier). My husband is right handed and all our kids are right handed. I thought my middle kid might be heading in my direction because he used both hands equally until rather late in life (around K), but turns out he just had weaker fine motor and it took longer for him to develop the muscle strength to develop side dominance. My entire family (and my husband's) are all right-handed, though, so having a full-on lefty would have been fairly unexpected.
I would never have wanted to influence them either way, but I was a bit excited when I thought my son would be ambidextrous Growing up left-handed can be tricky in a righty's world, though.
I'm a lefty, but pretty much do everything but write and eat with my right hand. I didn't influence my kids - both are righthanded.
Recently I was in a meeting with 4 people at work and we all realized at the same time that all five of us were lefties! We had a brief moment of "Woo us!" to celebrate.
I'm pretty sure my dad tried to "switch" me as a child. He grew up left-handed in the 50s when it was really a pain. While he swears up and down he didn't do anything to influence me, I do EVERYTHING left-handed (and left-legged) except for writing on paper. If I have to write on a dry erase or chalkboard (or even on overhead transparencies for you old folks like me!), I write left-handed, but on paper, I use my right hand. Suspicious? You decide
No.Its something cant be influenced ,its the way we are wired.
I recall a fellow lefty from the second grade era.
He was writing odd with his right and I asked him"why are you writing with your right if your left handed?"
His reply
"Because my mom forces me to"
How sad.
Little does she know,
that the richest and brightest are lefties.
Except me,I just browse city data.
I'm pretty sure my dad tried to "switch" me as a child. He grew up left-handed in the 50s when it was really a pain. While he swears up and down he didn't do anything to influence me, I do EVERYTHING left-handed (and left-legged) except for writing on paper. If I have to write on a dry erase or chalkboard (or even on overhead transparencies for you old folks like me!), I write left-handed, but on paper, I use my right hand. Suspicious? You decide
DH grew up left-handed in the 50s and felt no such pain. The only thing he does right-handed is cut with a scissors.
I'm left handed in everything but using a computer with a mouse. I can do a lot right handed as our population has learned to to fit in... but not very well!
I DID try to encourage left-handedness with my son but it became clear I was being selfish and he is a right handed 10 year old now.
I was born left-handed in the 50's and was apparently forced to write right-handed in school which was common at that time. As a result, I have the penmanship of a 4 year old. I shoot a rifle, shoot pool, kick a ball all left-footed. My son was born left handed and I completely left him alone as did his school. He is doing just fine.
I'm a lefty, my wife is a righty. Our daughter is 11 months so it's a bit too early to tell, but so far, she seems to use her left hand for most things. I don't make any conscious effort to influence her to be a lefty; I guess I think it'd be kind of cool if she was, too, but it's not really a big deal to me.
Interesting side story: my youngest sister is 13 years my junior. I've always been an artist, and would draw her pictures when she was a toddler... one day when I was watching her, we were sitting there, and she noticed that all of my drawings came out looking more like whatever she wanted to make. She watched intently as I drew, looked at my hand, looked at hers, and then switched the marker from her right hand to her left hand She's remained a righty.
I suspect one could influence a baby to be right handed, rather than left handed. For example, even though I'm left handed, some things I learned in the school yard, like batting a ball, I was taught right handed. Also knitting, or a fishing reel, shooting a gun, playing guitar, etc.
I think when you learn something for the first time, it is equally awkward, no matter which way you learn it, so it doesn't really matter. Also, since we lefties live in a right handed world, we use our right hands for many things on a daily basis.
I'm left handed and I throw and use a mouse with my right. In fact for the latter I prefer it to be right handed since I'm so used to it.
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Growing up left-handed can be tricky in a righty's world, though.
She's remained a righty.
