Left-Handed

[lutra]

^ Um, make sure there's no fragile windows nearby then.

Oh, I totally suck kicking a ball with my left. It looks pathetic/gayish when I try.

[renaeden]

Even though I am left-handed, I do some things right-handed. Like ironing, knitting (though I am terrible at it) and batting at cricket or baseball. I am also left-footed (prefer to kick the football with my left foot).

I am definitely right-eyed though but that is because the vision in my left eye is bad.

My dad is left-handed and so was my maternal grandmother (though she was made to write with her right hand and so became equally good with either hand).

[eris]

I am right handed and batshit insane.

my sister is left handed and I think she might be a sociopath.

[bodie]

That is really interesting Skyblue.

I am a leftie,  but both my parents and all siblings are right handed.

I don't know if i posted this already, but the urchin, who has turned over a new leaf now at school is still struggling with writing and holding a pen.  It appears he can't decide if he is left or right?

The teacher asked me what foot he kicks a ball with.  This caused me some angst as i suddenly realised that no one has ever kicked a ball round with him.  This is really really bordering on neglect in England.  Little boys need to play footy. 

So, i have been taking him to the park, and doing said activity.  Rather badly. 

It turns out,  he has the same problem with his feet.  I don't know what to do?  Should i just try and focus on one or the other?  I always thought it was wrong to push someone either way,  but it is holding him back.

['andersom']

Don't worry Bodi.

Time will tell, or not. And then there is still time to take action.

My oldest was doing just as much left as right handed and footed, till she was about five or six.

I had just bought her a pair of lefthanded scissors, because she liked the colours of them better than the righthanded ones, when all of a sudden, a preference for the righthand was there.

My youngest, she is born with a very strong right hand preference. Seems to be really weird, to see a preference that early and strong. It was so strong, that I got told to watch out for her growing faster at the right side of her body.

["couldbecousin"]

I'm right handed and right footed

Strongly in both cases

 Me too.  I suppose I could train my left side but I can't be arsed. 

[eris]

I once knew an old lady from England that said she was not allowed to be left handed in school. She was from Birmingham and if she is still alive she has got to be 90 years old. She said she would get smacked with a ruler if she wrote with her left so she learned to write with her right hand.

[Adam]

body if i lived near u i would hapily teach the urchin some football lol. my little bros arent really into it. i cant imagine being left footed. even trying to picture in my head aiming a ball left footed is dificult. i also cant kick up off the floor v well with my left. altho i can do keepy uppies with both

[Parts]

I once knew an old lady from England that said she was not allowed to be left handed in school. She was from Birmingham and if she is still alive she has got to be 90 years old. She said she would get smacked with a ruler if she wrote with her left so she learned to write with her right hand.

I believe the nuns harassed my sister about it and that was only in the 60's

["couldbecousin"]

I once knew an old lady from England that said she was not allowed to be left handed in school. She was from Birmingham and if she is still alive she has got to be 90 years old. She said she would get smacked with a ruler if she wrote with her left so she learned to write with her right hand.

 My father writes with his right hand but holds certain things, like brooms and shovels,
 the way a left-handed person would.  He suspects he started out left-handed and may
 have been taught to switch to his right hand in school.  (He's 85.) 

[bodie]

body if i lived near u i would hapily teach the urchin some football lol. my little bros arent really into it. i cant imagine being left footed. even trying to picture in my head aiming a ball left footed is dificult. i also cant kick up off the floor v well with my left. altho i can do keepy uppies with both

Thanks Adam.  He could do with a more competent teacher than me, lol.   I keep looking in the park,  and the moment i see some nice older lads kicking a ball around i am going to try and bribe them.

He does like it.  He sometimes just picks it up and turns it into a game of 'catch'


@Hyke.   Thanks,  that is reassuring to know about your kid,  i don't know of anyone else that it has happened to.

@Parts and Eris.  Yikes evil nuns.  I'm in Birmingham, England too.  I never got whacked though.  I was a seventies baby, and i believe my parents made some attempt to get me to use the other hand.  They even sought advice, but were told to leave me be.  Maybe all the rulers were broken.

@cbc  you are a right wing weeble 

['andersom']

@Parts and Eris.  Yikes evil nuns.  I'm in Birmingham, England too.  I never got whacked though.  I was a seventies baby, and i believe my parents made some attempt to get me to use the other hand.  They even sought advice, but were told to leave me be.  Maybe all the rulers were broken.

My youngest brother is a seventies baby too, but, they have really pondered on changing his writing hand, by the time he was past 10 I think, because of his severe dyslexia, and, because he was ambidextrous in all the other things.

They would not have used the ruler though. That may have been why they aborted the plan... Don't know. Will ask my Mum about that.

[Parts]

I am the youngest in the family and a seventies kid also.  By the time I was around my parents had sworn off catholic school after many many problems with my siblings .  I would not have done well there even right handed between my sensory&motor issues along with dyslexia they would have said I was retarded like they did with my oldest brother

[renaeden]

My father writes with his right hand but holds certain things, like brooms and shovels,
 the way a left-handed person would.  He suspects he started out left-handed and may
 have been taught to switch to his right hand in school.  (He's 85.) 

I am the opposite, left-handed but use a shovel and broom right-handed.

["couldbecousin"]

My father writes with his right hand but holds certain things, like brooms and shovels,
 the way a left-handed person would.  He suspects he started out left-handed and may
 have been taught to switch to his right hand in school.  (He's 85.) 

I am the opposite, left-handed but use a shovel and broom right-handed.

 Interesting, do you know why?  Are you ambidextrous in other ways?