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Post by ilb on Feb 2, 2005 17:10:07 GMT -6
while googleing for riddles i came across this site.... www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1684/lefthand.htmlour youngest being left handed... i took the time to read it and learned a lot of interesting things.... i honestly never stopped to think about how awkward it must b to b left handed living in a right handed world.... wandering why she seemed so awkward with simple tasks... i will now make a conscious effort to make things easier for her and more comfprtable.... was just wandering how many lefty's were here and if u had any tips or little tricks for our little lefty to make everyday tasks easier... |
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 2, 2005 20:31:20 GMT -6
Howdy....I'm not a lefty but both my parents are/were. Can't tell you how frustrating it was for them to try and teach me even little things like tying my shoes, because for them it was all backwards. My mom writes upside down because she is left handed and I swear she has the prettiest hand writting I've ever seen.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 2, 2005 23:13:14 GMT -6
Interesting article, ILB. Little Xena is left-handed. Actually, she used both equally until the time she was almost three. Teaching her to tie her shoes was difficult because, as Scrappy said, everything she watched me do was backwards for her. I've wondered if this is why she finally chose her left-hand to be the dominant one - watching me do things while sitting in front of her; a mirror image type thing.
Could be hereditary though. Both my brothers are left-handed - mostly. They both eat and write left-handed but do everything else right handed, which I think results from most things being made for right-handed people.
I have some left-handed tendencies. I wear my watch on my right hand, and hang my clothes as a left-handed person would. The clumsiness mentioned in the article also comes to mind.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 2, 2005 23:24:48 GMT -6
I read somewhere that people who have artistic abilities...and actually use them tend to be left handed or ambidextrous.
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 3, 2005 21:34:42 GMT -6
I have been told to show things to leftys by facing them. If that helps any. So, for example, you would stand across from them to show them how to tie a shoe. I also think rightys could just try to show them technique by doing it left-handed.
A pal of mine is a lefty and she goes to this online site to order things for leftys. Like a lefty ruler and notebooks; or some such thing. Anyway, they are making a lot of things for left-handers.
I think putting the soap on the left hand side is nice...and when they are taught stuff you may just want to tell the teacher.
What else does my pal say? She talks quite a bit about the tribulations of growing up left-handed.
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Post by ilb on Feb 4, 2005 12:33:09 GMT -6
thanx for all the advise... i did discover that it was easier to show her things, like tying her shoe, facing her so she could mirror copy me. never tried showing her by doing left handed but i will make a conscious effort to do just that. i was born a lefty, forced to be a righty, still have trouble telling my left from right but never knew why until i read the article. i've always put the soap on the left side of the sink..never knowing why...just feels right (haha) to me. i went out and bought her 3 pair of lefty sissors...she was so excited and proud of them...amazing how something so simple that we take for granted every day can make a difference to a lefty. i did find several sights for ordering lefty stuff... gonna get her a few more things, like those spiral notebooks and a ruler...what else is hard for lefty's to use?...i really don't know...something about ink pens?...can anyone find out for me? want to make her feel special...cause she truly is!!! but don't want to waste money on stuff she really doesn't need...like a left handed tooth brush or a left handed hair brush..haha artistic? that girl can spend hours doing creative stuff when nothing else can hold her attention more that a few minutes... she loves designing and making clothes for her dolls and making jewelery and anything she can create...she's all into that!! thank u all for the help!!!  |
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Post by Phalon on Feb 4, 2005 15:01:01 GMT -6
Spiral notebooks? Hhmm, I've never seen those. LX has such beautiful handwriting, even though she's just nine, and I wonder if such a thing would be a waste.
I understand about your daughter's joy with the left handed scissors. LX could never manage to cut a clean line, until a friend told me about them, and I got her a couple pair. I never realized such things existed.
Aside from sporting equipment, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head that she has that is left-handed.
And the soap on the left side of the sink? Dang, that is where mine has always been.
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Post by ilb on Feb 4, 2005 15:11:14 GMT -6
our little lefty is 11 and up until recently her handwritting
was unreadable..teachers would have a hell of a time
grading her spelling test and i had been on her hard about
her sloppy writting, not realizing that her hand preference made
a difference in such things...wich makes me even more proud
now of her improvement..
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 4, 2005 22:14:12 GMT -6
Maybe she should go to school in England. Drive on the left and all, pip pip. I would love to do that by the way.
This woman was saying that her hand always fell off of the notebooks or she had to put stuff under them. I think it might be nice for Lil' Xena.
She also said she had a hard time reading cuz she wanted to start from the left. Very interesting stuff.
Kicking balls is tough on leftys cuz they are usually taught by a righty. Oh, she bought a left ladle. The old ones used to drive her nuts. Can openers. If you think about it all of the kitchen is so right-handed. Things open to a righty. The pencil sharpeners at school are probably right handed. So, it might be nice to have an opposite one at home. I dunno about that. Oh, and measuring cups, too. She bought a lefty measurer cuz she always had to turn the handle away from her.
I will ask her some more when I see her. I know she tells the P.E. teachers and so on so that they can teach her cartwheels and stuff from a different approach.
That is about all I can think of for now. That is so cute about her writing. She sounds cute.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 4, 2005 22:54:53 GMT -6
My brother used to do that when he first started school...not with reading but with writing. He'd write everything starting at the right side of the page and work towards the left, so he could see what he was writing, since left handed people tend to cover what they've written as they write. Did I write that right? Such a long sentence for saying so little.
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