Left hand or right hand?

I am lefthanded and proud of it. If my mom yelled at me for using my left hand, I would stop eating! There are some things that I can do with my right hand but most the time I use my left.

My 14 year old son is left handed, as is his paternal grandmother. We never tried to force him to use the other hand. We believe that to do so would cause psychological harm and would be grossly unfair to him. Whatever hand you use is hardwired into your brain before you are even born. He is a very inventive and creative person and is gifted with intelligence and musical ability. He is very good at oragami, electronics, and auto mechanics. His favorite topics in school are French, Geography, and band. He is a member of the jazz band as well as the marching band and concert band. He can play trombone, guitar, and recorder. His middle school jumped him over the 7th grade, so that he went from 6th grade straight into 8th. The shouting mother is just wrong and is probably following a social construct. She may be under pressure to make him change. I have heard that in some South American countries that people try to force a child to switch handedness; but it is not really by choice that a child favors one hand over the other.

I dont understand the people that make it into such a big deal. I think that you just naturally use whatever hand feels natural for you. In my opinion the mother over-reacted. My mom uses both hands for alot of things, she can write with both and you cant really tell the difference in the writing. Im a righty as is my husband and our children so far. However I do play pool left-handed, Im not sure why but I do.

I was born a lefty. My adoptive parents forced me to change to using my right hands. I was 8 years old at the time. I want you to think for a moment though, most concentrate on the writing aspect. The fact that I now use my right hand to write doesn't mean I use it predominantly for everything. When going to throw a ball, a frisbee, etc., I have to switch back and forth to figure out which one I need to use. If I start to stumble, it's still my left hand that I use to try to catch myself. When reaching for a plate, to open a cabinet, etc., I use my right hand. I can still write with my left hand, just not very neatly. It used to be more common for people to force this on their children. I'm glad it isn't so much anymore.

I am a right handed person, but I have a friend who can use both...

I use my right hand and cannot use my left hand very well. It does not seem to be as strong as my right. Sometimes I try to use my left hand to do some things with so that I can try and make it stronger.

This reminds me of when I was a child and had a friend next door that was also using his left hand a lot. His Father was adamant that he should NOT be left handed so he used to strap his left arm to his side so he had to use his right hand. Seriously! The Father believed that life would be tough for a left handed person for some reason and to be honest I find this absolutely ridiculous! I eneded up moving form that neighborhood so have no idea whether my firend ended up left handed or not! I am not aware of there being any correlation between left handed people and above average intelligence either. I am right handed by the way.

I am right-handed. I am really used to that since then. I can't imagine someone forcing a little boy to use the other hand instead. That's very difficult. It's not easy to do that. It takes time to be accustomed again to use the other hand.

I use my left hand when I eat or write but my right for most everything else. I was NEVER told to use the other hand. I think it is wrong for parents or teachers to tell children to use the other hand. I did notice that the special education students that I taught had a high percentage of left handed children. But I have also heard that a high percentage of geniuses are also left handed. I have 4 children. 2 are right handed, one is left handed and one is ambidextrous for many things, but strongly left handed. Their father is left handed.

I am right handed, and I use my right hand for the spoon when eating and left for the fork. I tried eating using the left hand for the spoon, but it was a bit difficult for me. I can still eat the food, though. About being smart, I think it's not an indication. Is there any study about that? Have a nice day tony!

I am left handed, but i always eat properly with the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right. My father was very strict when we were young, and always told us to sit up straight at the table and use your knife and fork properly, to say please and thankyou ect ect.

Hi there! I think being left handed or right handed is not a habit. There are people born that way. I know it says in science that it is how your brain works. That if you're a right handed person the left cerebrum part of the brain does the most thinking and it's the opposite for left handed persons. So it is not advisable to force left handed persons to use their right hand. Left handed persons are still normal and I don't think being one is bad thing. I have a brother who is left handed and he uses his left hand on most of his work. By the way, I am a right handed person. Ciao!

I am a right handed person, my eldest son is a lefty, but his co-siblings are right handed.

I am left handed and thank goodness my parents never forced me to switch. I am an intelligent human being and contributer to society. I get angry when I hear of arrogant right handed people forcing their beliefs of superiority on defenceless children. I am artistic and above average intelligence and write quite well thankyou. Just imaginge all you right handed people what it would be like if someone strapped your right hand behind your back and forced you to use your left hand, it is just as difficult as the torture that left handed people used to go through. Not everyone is like you, get over it.

Same thing happens with my neice, now she is accustomed to eat by her right hand. By this one news I remembered in one school one teacher has trained students to write by both hands, with one hand they write one language and with another another language. So if one practices everything is possible.

i am a right handed person. but i know someone who is left handed but she practise to eat using the ight for the spoon. when i ask her why she told me that she has a lot of sibblngs and eating with them at the table is not easy if she will use her left hand for the spoon. she practised to use her left hand for she can eat well and her sibblings who sits beside her wont bumb her left arm..... something like that. some parents say that to children for children who are right handed sometimes still get confused and use whatever hand is available when eating.

I am a right handed person, however, I tie my wrist watch on my left hand because if I tie my wrist watch in right hand, it will hamper and interrupt my smooth functioning. However, I sometimes do some of the task with my left hand, such as dialing a telephone number, locking the padlock (it looks easier to me, because the key in a padlock revolves anti-clockwise) and sipping a cup of tea with left hand. I just cannot write with my left hand. Those who are right handed for them their right side of the brain is more active and functional and its vice versa is true for the left handed persons.

To some people in the world, the Right hand is 'holier' than the Left hand. Perhaps that boy's mother think that way.. I am a Right hand user. I do most chores with my Right hand. However, when it comes to carrying things, I tend to use my Left hand.

I am a right handed Lady all the way...I can hardly do anything with my left hand. My sister was left handed and everyone tried to force her to use her right hand. But she never did and to this day is a left handed gal.

Well, it's a shame when somebody is forced to change away from what their body does naturally. I'm sure it's not healthy psychologically or physically. Actually, my grandma told me once that she used to be left-handed when she was little, but she was forced (by her family or by school, I'm not sure which one) to use her right-hand instead. I don't think that it caused her any obvious harm, but it sounds cruel to me, and I think it would be harmful and confusing to some people. My cousin is left-handed (maybe he's inherited it from our grandma, maybe it's just coincidence), but nowadays in this country I don't think anybody would even think of making a child change, to conform to what's 'normal'. People are how they are, and luckily it's the manufacturers (of scissors, tin openers, violins! and all sorts of other products where "handedness" matters), who are now conforming, so that the left-hander doesn't need to. Btw. I don't think that what you say about not changing to use your left-hand, even though left-handers are smarter, would really apply. I think (if it's true), then it would be people who were naturally left-handed who would be smarter (or differently-thinking), because of the different way in which their brain may work. I wouldn't think that teaching yourself to use your left hand for things would have the same effect - although I might well be wrong! It's an interesting thought