Are You Left-handed Or Right-handed?

I am left-handed, and I find the 'right' side of most things weird, just like how righties probably find the left side weird.

However, I do use scissors with my right hand. Weird.

The one downside to being left-handed is that you smudge your writing and drawings. Especially writing (unless you start from the right of the page, but I don't think most people do that)

I'm right handed but my son is left handed. Do you have any tips on teaching him to write and cut? Scissor skills are definitely the most difficult for him. (He's in kindergarten but we homeschool; so it's on me!) I found left handed scissors for him. I try to put his binders together so the center isn't in the way.

I'm very right-handed, lol. When I was a kid I wanted to be left-handed for some reason, so I tried to use my left hand. . .it just wasn't going to happen!

I'm left handed. I can definitely relate to the smudged writing. I remember having a lot of trouble with that.

MoochNNoodles said:

I'm right handed but my son is left handed. Do you have any tips on teaching him to write and cut? Scissor skills are definitely the most difficult for him. (He's in kindergarten but we homeschool; so it's on me!) I found left handed scissors for him. I try to put his binders together so the center isn't in the way.

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Sorry I don't really have any good tips... I think it will just click for him eventually. I would try left-handed scissors and right-handed scissors just in case he prefers cutting with his right hand.

Oh, yes, that binder center is so annoying!

My left hand has always felt weak compared to my right. My handwriting is so awful, though-it's only *slightly* better right-handed

I write and eat using my left hand so I consider myself left handed. I do most everything else right handed. Both my brother and sister are left handed. My father was left handed and my mother was right handed.

I'm left handed

Definitely right handed. My left hand is brain dead.

Rick and I are right-handed. Our son is ambidextrous. One of his elementary teachers tried to make him use his right hand only. When I found out, I went in to the school and put a stop to it. I think he uses his right hand most of the time.

Winchester said:

Rick and I are right-handed. Our son is ambidextrous. One of his elementary teachers tried to make him use his right hand only. When I found out, I went in to the school and put a stop to it. I think he uses his right hand most of the time.

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Same thing happened to one of my relatives. She was left-handed, but the school tried to make her right-handed. She still uses her left hand though.

My SIL had that problem in school. MIL put a stop to it too. She said she had beautiful handwriting; what was the point of changing it? I don't think they do that anymore thankfully!

Merlin77 said:

Sorry I don't really have any good tips... I think it will just click for him eventually. I would try left-handed scissors and right-handed scissors just in case he prefers cutting with his right hand.

Oh, yes, that binder center is so annoying!

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I think the best I can do is keep trying to set up binders so they work better for him. I know I've seen left-handed notebooks and things online. He's too young for that now anyway; but I bet they are expensive! At least finding scissors wasn't a big deal. Walmart had them.

I write left handed but do many tasks right handed. As for eating, I use a fork with my left hand, but I use a knife & spoon with my right hand-does that mean I'm eating lefty or righty? I do all sports right handed, brush my teeth right handed etc. I use a computer mouse with my left hand.

It's a right handed world; for everything we get rid of that favor right handers (rotary phones), we get something new that favors right handers (swiping right is positive, swiping left is negative).

Hebrew and Arabic are written right to left. I wonder if there is a higher percentage of left handed writers among that population.

Right handed here.