Should I make my left-handed child write with right hand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll?

More likely from Asia, Middle East, or parts of Africa, where this is still very much a thing.

OP, forcing a left handed child to write with their right hand is very damaging and in addition to inflicting emotional trauma, it will actually impair their academic performance. Please don’t do this to your child.

[Anonymous]

What?? I am a successful scientist and entrepreneur and have colleagues that hope and dream for a left-handed child.

Not saying you need to go there but in the 21st century kids can succeed how they are and competition is too steep to handicap a child in this meaningless way. Call us if your child can’t write with either hand. Where did you even get this idea?

[Anonymous]

I am left-handed and I am just fine. Great, even.

[Anonymous]

I was forced to write right handed(I am young too) by my abusive mother and I do everything else left handed. My handwriting was not legible till nearly 4th grade and I can't draw anything.

[Anonymous]

It is not recommended to force the child to use the non-dominant hand now- we’ve learned a few things over the last few decades.

Your mom is from a time when that was an accepted practice. That has changed…along with a lot of other things since your mom had preschoolers…so I would take some of your moms advice with a grain of salt going forward.

[Anonymous]

My mom did this. I write with my right hand but use my left hand for scissors, baseball bat, gold clubs, eating utensils, almost everything with my left hand.

Nothing traumatic happened to me. I’m not psychologically damaged. It don’t remember how she did it. I kinda remember her switching the pencil when I was writing.

I kinda like it. I have beautiful hand writing. I hold a pencil like a normal person. My mom and my grandpa were also left handed and that is also how were trained back in the day. We are all normal. None of my kids are lefties. I probably wouldn’t have the patience to do it. Not sure how long it takes.

But nothing bad will happen if you decide to do it. It’s not that horrible. It will not traumatize you kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i would. develop both sides of the brain. worked out beautifully for my brother who writes righty and plays (sports) lefty. excelled in both.

Then he’s ambidextrous, not a full lefty. Please don’t encourage forcing a lefty to write right-handed. It’s cruel and won’t work anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i would. develop both sides of the brain. worked out beautifully for my brother who writes righty and plays (sports) lefty. excelled in both.

+1

Ambidextrous people are smarter.

[Anonymous]

If she's left-handed, making her write with her right hand is not going to improve her handwriting. Also, 4 year olds are not old enough to learn handwriting successfully--the bones in their hands aren't fused yet. An article with ideas of how to help little kids get ready for writing is https://learnasyouplay.net/2020/09/15/preparing-little-hands-for-writing/

[Anonymous]

Op here.

Calm down people… I’m just asking people’s experience. Yes, my mom is a Chinese and she lives in Shanghai. She’s also sharing with me more videos just now about not letting lefty using right hand. She’s just trying to advise something good for her grandkid. I know manybeople were corrected to use right hand as the handwriting in Chinese and most of the world are designed for people using right hand.

Also found these two articles if people’re interested to read:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6672868/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i would. develop both sides of the brain. worked out beautifully for my brother who writes righty and plays (sports) lefty. excelled in both.

Then he’s ambidextrous, not a full lefty. Please don’t encourage forcing a lefty to write right-handed. It’s cruel and won’t work anyway.

oh he's full lefty but forced/trained to write righty when little

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

Calm down people… I’m just asking people’s experience. Yes, my mom is a Chinese and she lives in Shanghai. She’s also sharing with me more videos just now about not letting lefty using right hand. She’s just trying to advise something good for her grandkid. I know manybeople were corrected to use right hand as the handwriting in Chinese and most of the world are designed for people using right hand.

Also found these two articles if people’re interested to read:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6672868/

OP, you need to know that here in the states nuns forced many such children to write with their right hands. I'm old enough to know some of these children. Their knuckles were rapped by rulers that the nuns carried - or they were otherwise physically punished . . . so you will get a strong reaction out of people here who know about this or had parents or loved ones who were beaten for trying to write with their left hands. https://phaylen.medium.com/the-children-who-were-beat-by-religious-leaders-for-being-left-handed-82e98a8048fe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Troll?

More likely from Asia, Middle East, or parts of Africa, where this is still very much a thing.

OP, forcing a left handed child to write with their right hand is very damaging and in addition to inflicting emotional trauma, it will actually impair their academic performance. Please don’t do this to your child.

There is no trauma. There is no damage. Stop the lies. Yes, it is prevalent in Asia and other countries still. The Chinese are very smart.

You sound impaired. .

Funny you should mention impairment. Forced right handedness causes a disruption of normal structural development that involves a putaminal territory that functionally integrates executive and cognitive control of skilled movements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

Calm down people… I’m just asking people’s experience. Yes, my mom is a Chinese and she lives in Shanghai. She’s also sharing with me more videos just now about not letting lefty using right hand. She’s just trying to advise something good for her grandkid. I know manybeople were corrected to use right hand as the handwriting in Chinese and most of the world are designed for people using right hand.

Also found these two articles if people’re interested to read:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6672868/

Seriously, did you read them before citing?

Conclusion
Adult converted [FYI not childhood, OP] left-handers show persistent features of left-handedness during right-hand writing. Extending previous studies, which emphasized functional asymmetries at the executive level of the motor system (e.g., the SM1), our results provide evidence for a neural substrate of human handedness in premotor and parietal motor association areas.

In summary, the reorganization patterns found in converted left-handers point to two distinct neuronal correlates of handedness in executive and associative sensorimotor cortices. Although the executive representations in SM1 and caudal PMd are more flexible and can be influenced by preferred hand use throughout life, representations in higher-order sensorimotor areas of the dominant hemisphere (i.e., in the inferior parietal cortex and rostrolateral PMd) cannot be switched by educational training. Indeed, these higher-order representations are paradoxically strengthened by attempts to switch handedness for writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here.

Calm down people… I’m just asking people’s experience. Yes, my mom is a Chinese and she lives in Shanghai. She’s also sharing with me more videos just now about not letting lefty using right hand. She’s just trying to advise something good for her grandkid. I know manybeople were corrected to use right hand as the handwriting in Chinese and most of the world are designed for people using right hand.

Also found these two articles if people’re interested to read:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758284/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6672868/

Seriously, did you read them before citing?

Conclusion
Adult converted [FYI not childhood, OP] left-handers show persistent features of left-handedness during right-hand writing. Extending previous studies, which emphasized functional asymmetries at the executive level of the motor system (e.g., the SM1), our results provide evidence for a neural substrate of human handedness in premotor and parietal motor association areas.

In summary, the reorganization patterns found in converted left-handers point to two distinct neuronal correlates of handedness in executive and associative sensorimotor cortices. Although the executive representations in SM1 and caudal PMd are more flexible and can be influenced by preferred hand use throughout life, representations in higher-order sensorimotor areas of the dominant hemisphere (i.e., in the inferior parietal cortex and rostrolateral PMd) cannot be switched by educational training. Indeed, these higher-order representations are paradoxically strengthened by attempts to switch handedness for writing.

Probably not. It seems like OP has already decided and just wants reinforcement.