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.

Anonymous wrote:Shame on you for even asking.

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.

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.

Shame on you for even asking.

Anonymous wrote:No, there are horror stories of the trauma inflicted on left handed children forced to
Write with their right hand. Times have changed and the world is more welcome to lefties now. Let her be.

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.

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 wrote:Was your mom born in 1843?

The answer to your question is no.

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!

Yikes!!

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/

No one wants to read this. Leave the child alone.

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/

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

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 wrote:My 4 years old is left-handed (writing, using scissors, utensils etc.). We don’t really correct her or anything, but my mom was just worries about her handwriting when videochatting with me this morning. I know many left handed were using right hand to write. Shall I do that to help my kid for future writing? She’s just very into writing lately. She can use left hand for everything else. Any thoughts?

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 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/

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 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.

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.”

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.

Left handed people should write mirror from right handed people. Especially cursive.