Comments on: Chance of LH child

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am a left-handed female, which obviously isn’t very common. But here’s something weird: my father is 1 of 14 children. 12 are surviving. 6 are males and 6 are females. 3 males are lefty and 3 females are lefty.

By: adie

adie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How about 2 right handed parents having 3 children who are all showing left handed tendencies? Two of them its for certain, and the youngest it’s looking that way.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I find this subject endlessly fascinating. I know my maternal grandmother was left-handed, however, both my parents are right-handed. I am personally delighted to say that it looks as though my little nephew is leaning left when he picks up toys or tries to feed himself, so perhaps I will have a little left handed buddy.
What’s strange about my husband and my’s situation is that he and his two brothers all married women that were left-handed! We’re all dead weight at mealtime at the parents’ home, between the peelers, knives, and the dreaded tin opener. My husband is American and my father-in-law told me he’d better get at least one good ’southpaw’ baseball pitcher from the three of us daughters-in-laws! (Evidently, they have an advantage!)
I have read all sorts of reasons as to why a person is left-handed, one being that very, very early on in development, we lefties had a twin that was reabsorbed. The thinking behind this is that of mirror twins, where, depending on which way each fetus is facing, one will be left-handed and one will be right-handed.
W.K. Koskei: That’s the very thing that my grandmother’s school did to her! It didn’t work, just as your teacher’s attempts didn’t, although I know some people who do everything left and yet they write with the right.

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

For the record neither of our parents or siblings are left handed…mum remembers twin cousin/s possibly being but hubby has no recollection of anyone (but honestly that doesn’t mean anthing lol)…

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My hubby and I are both lefties….he basically writes left handed and that is about it. I play hockey which is a right handed sport of course and seem to do most other sports rh but have no problem switching to my left in tennis or squash if I get tired (much to PE teachers disgust when he tried to grade me in highschool lol). I throw with more distance with my right but far more accurate with my left. I eat with a knife and fork like a rh but with a spoon like a lh…cut with a knife with whatever hands feels comfortable at the time. I use a computer (inclusing mouse) like a rh person but was forced as a child to cut with scissors with my rh and to this day can’t cut straight to save myself. When I write I don’t have the distinctive lh curl which looks so uncomfortable. We have 3 boys…the first 2 are definate righties and my 3rd seems to be showing tendancies to be a leftie finally…but we will see I just assumed that we would have lefties but they sure showed me.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My family is all right handed except for me, my aunt, and some great-cousins.

By: Bezz x

Bezz x — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am left handed and both my parents and both sets of grand parents, I don’t know about greats thought. As far as I know, only my half brother(Dads side) and possibly my cousin(also Dads side) are left handed. As to the best 10% of population(lefties) being more creative, I’ll provide this info: I am very musical, I play keyboard/piano clarinet and recorder and like to think I can sing, also I am a budding author, so I think we may be more creative. Who knows? Isn’t the left Sideof the brain the creatve side?

By: Lana

Lana — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Both my husband and I are right-handed and both our children (one boy and one girl) are left-handed. Now what’s the liklihood of that?

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am totally left handed (LH) but, like many lefties, can do lots of things right handed (RH) if I really want to! All grandparents were RH, all aunts and uncles were RH, all cousins RH, both parents RH and 2 brothers RH. The only LH I know of in the older generations is one of my father’s aunts. Others may have been forced to change of course, as was the custom in previous generations.
One of my 2 brothers has 3 RH sons and the other brother has 2 LH children and 1 RH. He blames me! My husband is RH and doesn’t know of any LHs up his family tree. My eldest child writes RH but plays most sports (tennis, squash, golf, soccer) LH or left footed, although he bowls a cricket ball with his RH. My 2 daughters are RH. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my first grandchild in May and hoping he/she will be a Lefty!

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My husband and I are both lefties. We have a right handed son and a left handed daughter. Before me the only leftie in my family was my father’s uncle, his Mom’s brother. My Husbands Mom was right handed and his dad was left handed. The first girl is a leftie, Then a rightie girl, then a rightie son and lastly my husband a leftie. All of my cousins are rightie and most of them has at least on leftie child. My right handed sister and her right handed husband have 2 lefties and two righties.