Mom Confessions
My DD is left handed.
She will be starting school Feb 6th (school terms are different in Australia we go from Feb-Dec)
I am right handed and so is SO. When we try to get her to wright her name we have issues with her writing it backwards or writing the letters in odd ways as in ...
say you were writing the letter H as i right handed person i would do the line on the right first then the left then the horizontal line. she writes the opposite.
Does this solve itself? Is this an issue? Do all kids do this?
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I am a lefty who had 2 right-handed parents. I sort of figured out writing on my own. I have no real memory on how I learned.
We have the opposite problem right now. My husband and I are both left-handed and our children are right-handed.
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If she is meant to be a lefty, there's no "fixing" it. I'm the only lefty in my entire family and my dad's mom tried everything under the sun to get me to be right handed. Nothing worked. -
Iwas the same way. I m told to this day I hold my pencil funny but I have very neat penmanship ...Several people have told me I write like president Obama lol!
Quoting SamiJ18:
I am a lefty who had 2 right-handed parents. I sort of figured out writing on my own. I have no real memory on how I learned.
We have the opposite problem right now. My husband and I are both left-handed and our children are right-handed.
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It will resolve itself. Just make sure the teachers don't try to get DD to write with her right hand. Make sure they know she's a south paw.
Three of our four are rh, DH and I are RH, and our 8-year-old son is a lefty. When we set the table, it's easy for him to find his spot since it's the only plate with the fork, napkin and cup on the left. :-)
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no i dont mean trying to change her, i mean she mirrors our writing and its wrong.
backwards Ds and such.
Its bad to try change the hand someone writes with doesnt that cause stuttering and other issues???
Quoting So.Ill.Mama:
If she is meant to be a lefty, there's no "fixing" it. I'm the only lefty in my entire family and my dad's mom tried everything under the sun to get me to be right handed. Nothing worked. -
Let her learn. It doesn't matter if she starts the left line first she isn't wrong, a lot of left handed people write left to right. -
Both my husband and I both are south paws and we have two kids that are left handed and two kids that are right handed. We had a hard time trying to teach the right handed kids to write but they got. It just takes a little time.
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My husband and i are both left handed and both our kids are right handed! I have no idea how it will work out in the future
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Dh writes that way, like how you described the H. His parents are both righties, he's a lefty.
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I am pretty sure my son is left handed. My husband and I are both right handed. There is no way you can "fix" it. I think its silly to try and make her write with her right hand because that can cause her pain.