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Now this is quite a trivial thing but it annoyed me at the time....
Mini Boo has started to use the computer, well I say use a computer, I mean she plays the games on the CBeebies web site.
Anyhoo- me and Mr Boo have noticed that she's using her left hand (same with drawing on paper too) and he said to tme he other day "See if you can get her to use her right hand more". When I asked why he said because it was more "normal like".
Well I was more than slightly miffed at this as I'm a lefty!! And I've never once considered myself to be not normal (well actually, that's a lie, I have, but never concerning which hand I write with etc).
Is he right? Should I be encouraging her to use her right hand more? Or is Mr Boo really what I told him he was, a silly sod who knows nowt and what possible difference does it make?
Mini Boo has started to use the computer, well I say use a computer, I mean she plays the games on the CBeebies web site.
Anyhoo- me and Mr Boo have noticed that she's using her left hand (same with drawing on paper too) and he said to tme he other day "See if you can get her to use her right hand more". When I asked why he said because it was more "normal like".
Well I was more than slightly miffed at this as I'm a lefty!! And I've never once considered myself to be not normal (well actually, that's a lie, I have, but never concerning which hand I write with etc).
Is he right? Should I be encouraging her to use her right hand more? Or is Mr Boo really what I told him he was, a silly sod who knows nowt and what possible difference does it make?
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I believe you shouldn't. It is said that the reason that King George VI stuttered is that he was naturally left-handed but forced to write right-handed, it being considered not proper for the monarch to be sinister.
When I wasa kid, I injured my left arm, and primary school tried to make me write right-handed. I got bad headaches, and my father kept me away from school.
Left-handed people are by the way far more intelligent than the common or garden righties.
When I wasa kid, I injured my left arm, and primary school tried to make me write right-handed. I got bad headaches, and my father kept me away from school.
Left-handed people are by the way far more intelligent than the common or garden righties.
I've never come across any difficulties being a lefty. Apart from a couple of things when I was at school.
My hand always tired easily whilst writing as us lefties push the pen rather than pull and music was a bit of a 'mare too. I'll never forget my awful music teacher who got so annoyed that I couldn't hold a guitar like everyone else that he gave up on me and told me to "just sit at the back and be quiet"
:-(
My hand always tired easily whilst writing as us lefties push the pen rather than pull and music was a bit of a 'mare too. I'll never forget my awful music teacher who got so annoyed that I couldn't hold a guitar like everyone else that he gave up on me and told me to "just sit at the back and be quiet"
:-(
I am a lefty too and no he is not right! i have always felt that i was extra special because i'm left handed! i was good at art at school and was told that left handers are more creative. i find that my right hand is better than most right handers left hand, i can write really well with my right and use it for other things like holding a bat, throwing a ball etc. not sure if other leftys are like this though? i remember being given left handed scissors when i was a child but i prefered to use my right with 'normal' scissors!
Oh Mr Boo. I have a south paws.
I wouldn't dream of making him use his right hand more.
My sister who is older than me was stopped from using her left hand at school and my dad went up there and had a go at them.
She will find a way of dealing with it and she has an advantage. Left handed people are more imaginative and creative than right handers. They tend to be more artistic as well.
I wouldn't dream of making him use his right hand more.
My sister who is older than me was stopped from using her left hand at school and my dad went up there and had a go at them.
She will find a way of dealing with it and she has an advantage. Left handed people are more imaginative and creative than right handers. They tend to be more artistic as well.
I'm left-handed too, and haven't any problems in being so. When i started school at five, the teachers tried to get me to write right-handed and apparently I started to stutter, so my mother asked the teachers to allow me to be left-handed if that appeared natural to me and the stutter vanished. The main problems I've always found are scissors - I have to use them right-handed and in the old days at school we used fountain pens and my work was always smudged, but I imagine children use Biro's nowadays. There is a good shop called Anything Left-Handed which I would imagine to be online as well. I like being left-handed, my OH is as well and I believe that quite a lot of creative and artistic people are left-handed, So Boo, I wouldn't encourage Mini Boo to be right handed, I'd just let her see what she wants to be.
HOW VERY DARE HE ?
im a lefty and, in a weird sort of way, im proud of it.
me thinks he needs to look into left handedness a little bit before he condems us all to a life of normality.
some of the worlds top musicians and polititians are lefties.
is Mr B00 a victorian or something ?
let the girl do as she pleases. you cant force her to be "NORMAL" if shes naturally left handed !!!!
:-(
im a lefty and, in a weird sort of way, im proud of it.
me thinks he needs to look into left handedness a little bit before he condems us all to a life of normality.
some of the worlds top musicians and polititians are lefties.
is Mr B00 a victorian or something ?
let the girl do as she pleases. you cant force her to be "NORMAL" if shes naturally left handed !!!!
:-(