Comments on: Your Left Handed Child

By: Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:14:11 +0000

You really need to tell the teachers where to get off. Ask once, then if they don’t change their attitude immediately, withdraw your child from their classes and make a complaint in writing by registered post to the Chairman of the Education Committee, with a copy to the Headmaster. In my experience that usually works.

My dad was far from being a radical — he once refused to go on strike in case it upset the bosses — but his instructions to me, the left handed kid, was that if any teacher asked me to use my right hand instead of my left, I was to get up, walk out of class and go home. He was right, too. Give his advice to your child.

By: Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:09:49 +0000

I don’t know whether parents need this pointed out, but in my limited experience teachers do not have a clue how to teach left handed children to write and don’t much care either. If a child is left handed you need to show him how to use a pen: keep your hand below the writing line, don’t press too hard, try to make your handwriting a work of art, and so forth. If you don’t, the kid will start to write with a peculiar “hooked” movement and will never be able to write clearly and distinctly.

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By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:58:16 +0000

My Granddaughter is left handed and she is now 14 and in the 8th grade and she enjoys sports basketball and volleyball in both of these sports she was told to use her right hand, it realy upsets me they are trying to change her, to me it is saying being left-handed is not okay and that they are discriminating against her, it is hard enough to be left handed when most everything is for right-handed people. My Granddaughter would like to be in baseball but she feels awkward in holding the bat so she won’t take it, the coaches have her feeling inferior, in her recent games of volley-ball she was playing one to 2 games out of five and others never sat down so my daughter asked the coatch why she was not playing more games because we feel she does a good job, her coach made a comment that the reason was that my Granddaughter was having trouble with whats left and right , she was suppose to rotate left around the volley-ball court and she at times would move right and the coach said she could play more if she got this right. I have a (Question could this have to do with being left handed why it is confusing to her why she goes right and not left?) I think it is a dumb reason why she can’t play more games when the Coach also said my Granddaughter was one of there stongest players. Schools should be more Educated in the art of left-handed people and have all things set up to make it easier for them so they can live easier in a right-handed world but instead they try to change them they don”t understand lack of education on left handed persons. I hope you can answer my question above about moving right instead of left.

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:05:45 +0000

I was a left handed child, and it was horrible going through school with right handed people. And even shoping NOW is hard. For most everything is for right handed people. But I love being left hand for WE are different, and that is what makes the world go round. I had to learn to do things different growing up. And it was hard. And it still is at time’s.
But us left handed people stand out!!!

By: langsing

langsing — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:02:35 +0000

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By: Charlies mum

Charlies mum — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:30:57 +0000

Having lived with being a lefty for a fair few years now I had forgotten just how difficult things can be. My biggest problem was always cutting with scissors but I couldn’t work out why until my mum bought me my lefty scissors and I realised it was as simple as the blades crossing differently. Kettles, mixers and all sorts of electrical things often have measures on only one side but could quite easily accommodate them on both. It’s better now than a few years ago but could still be better. My son started off drawing and eating left handed but when he went to nursery he gradually changed and now struggles with writing and drawing and I think it’s probably too late for him as he’s almost 11 now, although he still eats left handed. Embrace and encourage in whatever ways you can. I do different things with different hands but still have my original lefty scissors. However give me a spoon and a fork to eat with and it totally confuses me and I have to swap them at least twice until I feel comfortable ). This book sounds absolutely invaluable and informative and completely practical. May even buy it for me!!!

By: Tiff

Tiff — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:54:10 +0000

I have a three year old who is left-handed, and I will definitely be buying this book! I’m so glad I stumbled across your site…it’s such a relief to know that there are lots of materials I can use to help him as he grows. We home school, so it was especially important to me to find something like this.

And the reason it’s so much more expensive on the US site is simple: The dollar is simply worth a LOT less than the British pound now. Bummer for us Americans, for sure!