South Paws.

[B00]

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?

[numberouno]

i think mr boo has slipped back a century. it makes no difference. if you 'force' a child to do something theyre not comfortable it could hinder their speed of learning - well you wouldnt like it would you!
i like you am a lefty and has not been a problem in my life.

[B00]

Totally agree numberouno, I did tell him he was being a silly sod and it didn't make a difference at all which hand she uses. He didn't make a big deal of it really, it just annoyed me he even said such a stupid thing to be honest!

[petal54]

let Mini Boo use which ever hand that's easiest ,my nephew uses either,he's graduated from Uni and is now in China(poor old china) teaching English & learning Cantonees.Bigs was made to use right & is now a broke run down trucker

[LoftyLottie]

It can cause real problems if a left handed person is forced to use their right hand and vice versa. You are interfering with the natural wiring of the brain and apart from slowing down learning can cause real trauma to the child.

[B00]

So he is what i told him then? A silly sod who knows nowt? LOL

And Triggs, we have wayyyyy too much in common, it's quite scary- not my twin are you?

[sod_the_m25]

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.

[dot.hawkes]

my grandson is left handed and it takes some getting used to, whenever a pass him a drink in a cup i have to turn the handle the other way for him lol but he is 9 now and writes so well and can play a great game or baseball at school

[cazzz1975]

my daughter and son are both left handed, I get annoyed at the lack of facilities for left handers, if my daughter has to do golf at school, she often sits out because they never bother to bring left handed clubs, at the driving range out of 60 bays only 3 are for left handed!

[B00]

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"

:-(

[aims1202]

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!

[tigerlily11]

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.

[onlyme26]

lol maybe he just meant its more common to write with the right and see if she takes to it???

she is obviously going to be left handed!! nothing at all wrong with that!! xx

[blackcat77]

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.

[mrs_overall]

Hi Boo.
Toddlers are ambidexterous, (I don't know how old mini boo is) but by the age of about 3 it's usually pretty obvious whether they're going to be left or right handed. My middle child (girl) is left handed and has the neatest handwriting of all my 3 kids.

I think Mr Boo needs a slap. :)

[dawndevil]

I'm left handed and when i was at the school there were quite a few left handed people in my class. The teacher used to make us write with our right hand! She soon got into trouble for it though when we told our mum's and dads

Don't encourage her to use her right hand!

[B00]

Hey Mrs O :-)

Mini Boo will be 4 in December. Yes agree on the ambidexterous bit, she'll use both hands, but she tends to use the left more, so she's possibly going to be a lefty like me.

And yes, I agree- Mr Boo does need a slap.

[dawndevil]

don't know if you knew there is a left handed shop in london
www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk

[funkymoped]

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 !!!!
:-(