Should I donate some left handed scissors to my child’s school?

[Anonymous]

Lefty here, child of the 70s. I am ambidextrous now because left handed scissors were not a thing. It was such a big deal when a pair was found. By then, I'd learned how to cut with my right hand.
Things requiring fine motor control - I use my left hand
everything else (throw, swing a bat or club or racket) my right hand.

[Anonymous]

Yes! I am a lefty who went to elementary school in the 70s and 80s when there was only one pair of green handled lefty scissors in every class. I almost never got to use that pair of scissors, so I had to learn to cut with my right hand. Now I do everything else with my left hand, but I feel more comfortable using a scissor with my right hand. My brain must be very confused.

[Anonymous]

I am a lefty who learned to use regular scissors with my left hand. I recently found a pair of lefty scissors in a box of old stuff and couldn't make a cut. I am so used to placing the pressure a certain way and looking over the edge of the cutting surfaces to see what I am cutting that it is not possible for me to cut the "left-handed way" now. I have very accurate cutting skills. Please don't bother with lefty scissors or switching to the right hand. Your lefty child will adapt fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a great idea, but then again I'm left-handed. Righties, for the most part, don't care.

+1 lefty who uses my right hand to cut. I don't know if it's an adaptation or not because lefty scissors weren't a thing in my school and the nuns wouldn't let me use my left hand.

This is ME!

They told my mother that using your left hand was a sin. I still write with it - but do everything else righty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a lefty who learned to use regular scissors with my left hand. I recently found a pair of lefty scissors in a box of old stuff and couldn't make a cut. I am so used to placing the pressure a certain way and looking over the edge of the cutting surfaces to see what I am cutting that it is not possible for me to cut the "left-handed way" now. I have very accurate cutting skills. Please don't bother with lefty scissors or switching to the right hand. Your lefty child will adapt fine.

OR, imagine if they didn't make left handed people adapt and have the correct equipment for everyone to use?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a lefty who learned to use regular scissors with my left hand. I recently found a pair of lefty scissors in a box of old stuff and couldn't make a cut. I am so used to placing the pressure a certain way and looking over the edge of the cutting surfaces to see what I am cutting that it is not possible for me to cut the "left-handed way" now. I have very accurate cutting skills. Please don't bother with lefty scissors or switching to the right hand. Your lefty child will adapt fine.

Same here -- I can't cut using my right hand, but I know how to put the pressure on the scissor with my left hand to make it work just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lefty here, child of the 70s. I am ambidextrous now because left handed scissors were not a thing. It was such a big deal when a pair was found. By then, I'd learned how to cut with my right hand.
Things requiring fine motor control - I use my left hand
everything else (throw, swing a bat or club or racket) my right hand.

I could’ve written this - I am exactly the same way.

I also think your lefty will adapt fine to right handed scissors.

[Anonymous]

Another lefty here who couldn’t cut with my left hand to save my life. I think previous responses of lefties who can cut left handed are fascinating!

[Anonymous]

This is not really worthy of canvassing opinions.

1. Buy a few left handed scissors

2. Mark somehow that they are for lefties (nail polish stripe, dots with a sharpie, writing “left handed” on them, etc)

3. Drop them in the office for your teacher with a note explaining your daughter is a leftie and you hoped this might help in the classroom

They may or may not get used, get lost, etc. that’s okay, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a great idea, but then again I'm left-handed. Righties, for the most part, don't care.

+1 lefty who uses my right hand to cut. I don't know if it's an adaptation or not because lefty scissors weren't a thing in my school and the nuns wouldn't let me use my left hand.

This is ME!

They told my mother that using your left hand was a sin. I still write with it - but do everything else righty.

Pp here. A nun told me if I used the devil's hand to write, I'd soon be using it to steal, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a great idea, but then again I'm left-handed. Righties, for the most part, don't care.

+1 lefty who uses my right hand to cut. I don't know if it's an adaptation or not because lefty scissors weren't a thing in my school and the nuns wouldn't let me use my left hand.

This is ME!

They told my mother that using your left hand was a sin. I still write with it - but do everything else righty.

Pp here. A nun told me if I used the devil's hand to write, I'd soon be using it to steal, etc.

Yes, it's a right handers world, we are just living in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not really worthy of canvassing opinions.

1. Buy a few left handed scissors

2. Mark somehow that they are for lefties (nail polish stripe, dots with a sharpie, writing “left handed” on them, etc)

3. Drop them in the office for your teacher with a note explaining your daughter is a leftie and you hoped this might help in the classroom

They may or may not get used, get lost, etc. that’s okay, too.

The fact that you don't know how left handed scissors are marked show that you have no value add to this conversation. Go back to your right handed world with smeary pen ink and multiple scissor choices.

[Anonymous]

I always send lefty scissors with my Lefty. She can make right handed ones work but does a much cleaner job with lefty ones. I can never find them in Target or Walmart in the kid sizes. I order from Amazon or the Lefty store based out of San Francisco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not really worthy of canvassing opinions.

1. Buy a few left handed scissors

2. Mark somehow that they are for lefties (nail polish stripe, dots with a sharpie, writing “left handed” on them, etc)

3. Drop them in the office for your teacher with a note explaining your daughter is a leftie and you hoped this might help in the classroom

They may or may not get used, get lost, etc. that’s okay, too.

The fact that you don't know how left handed scissors are marked show that you have no value add to this conversation. Go back to your right handed world with smeary pen ink and multiple scissor choices.

Clearly you don’t understand that the making on the leftie scissors is for the OTHER CHILDREN, so those are not taken by a kid who doesn’t need them. But thanks for the insult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a great idea, but then again I'm left-handed. Righties, for the most part, don't care.

+1 lefty who uses my right hand to cut. I don't know if it's an adaptation or not because lefty scissors weren't a thing in my school and the nuns wouldn't let me use my left hand.

This is ME!

They told my mother that using your left hand was a sin. I still write with it - but do everything else righty.

The nuns of your time were progressive! Prior generations wouldn't allow writing with the left hand, either.