Should I make my left-handed child write with right hand?
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Anonymous
| Left handed people should write mirror from right handed people. Especially cursive. |
Anonymous
| OP whatever your concerns are they can be solved by something much simpler, like handwriting without tears or something when she’s ready for it. |
Anonymous
Some kids are wired that way, which is fine, my brother is wired the opposite which is also fine. Imposing it on a child whose neurology doesn’t work that way would be creating a learning disability in a child who doesn’t have one. It’s like saying “should I force my sighted child to wear eye patches on both eyes.” |
Anonymous
I am also Chinese and my parents did this. I am smart, normal, successful and had no trauma. I’m not in counseling and in not was impaired. I don’t even remember how they did it. I was born and raised here. It you decide to do this, it’s fine. I still use chopsticks with my left hand so the only thing awkward in my life is sitting at a round table at a Chinese wedding banquet. LOL! |
Anonymous
Are you insane? Stop it. Just the worst possible idea ever! What’s wrong with you? No if you do this it’s abuse! I’m left handed and only write and eat with my left and everything else is done w my right. You can’t make me write with my right hand. |
Anonymous
This was my mom, born in 1921. She just refused to go along with it. She was a non-confrontational person, but was strong enough to hold her own as a small child taught by nuns. |
Anonymous
No one wants to read this. Leave the child alone. |
Anonymous
| Yikes!! |
Anonymous
Ha. I’m 64, and my grandmother was born in 1895. Growing up, she didn’t necessarily shun my left-handedness, but would always shriek, “There’s a lefty!” when she saw one, so much so that I never fail myself to (silently) notice a left handed person. Like others on this thread, I am ambi-lateral - write, eat, and other small motor with the left hand, and big motor, like sports, with the right hand. The challenge has been when something new comes up later in life. It took me a long time to settle on my right hand for a computer mouse in my 30s! |
Anonymous
| This was a common practice in USSR. One of my strongest memories from K was a teacher smacking a boy’s hand with a metal ruler for writing with his left hand. My DH who also grew up in USSR writes with his right hand but uses his left hand for everything else. This was a terrible practice. |
Anonymous
My dad was forced to do this by his parents. Then my grandparents tried to insist that he do the same to my brother. They only backed off when my parents threatened to cut contact. |
Anonymous
| Shame on you for even asking. |
Anonymous
| No. My left-handed mom started stuttering when the school made her write with her right hand. Let the kid write with the dominant hand, please. |
Anonymous
Oh, please. Maybe she has no idea. It’s not like they teach that in health class. She was smart enough to question her own mother’s advice. That’s hard. |
Anonymous
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I don’t see the point in doing it but it doesn’t make you a serial killer or an axe murderer.
It doesn’t cause psychological damage or trauma. People did this decades ago all over the world. Left handed is Sinestra in Italian and Spanish which implied it was evil or bad. I was not abused and don’t even remember it being done. There were kids that were abused and slapped on the hand which it traumatizing. That is sooo wrong. I don’t see a reason to do this anymore. |