Right is right & Left is wrong or Left is right & Right is wrong?
Master C is primarily left-handed. When he first learned to grab hold of things, it wasn't so obvious. But now we confirmed that he is a left-hander when we realized he has difficulties learning which is the right hand and which is the left hand. When we asked him: "Where is your right hand?" He raised his left hand. Not correcting him instantly, I proceed to asked him the follow-up question:"Then which is your left hand?" Up came his right hand... Actually we have suspected that he will be a left-hander since he was a crawling baby as he would use his left-hand to take things offered by us to him. And now he draws using his left-hand and tackles more difficult tasks with his left hand if his right hand is not able to complete the task.
On the other hand, Miss C is showing strong signs to be a right-hander. She is very comfortable using her right-hand in everything she does, picking up toys, receiving things from us, playing, even when she is digging her nose (no joke, its true)!
I is very worried about Master C when he starts to learn to read and write. Teaching how to write each letters are based on the right-handed way. And many things in the world is invented based on the right-hander way. Normal daily used things that a right-hander will not notice the differences if it were to be used by a left-hander. Example: telephone - you pick up the handset with you left-hand and dial with your right hand index finger, computer mouse - right click left click, camera - press button to take photos is always on the right and many many more.
And look what I found - 13 August is The International Left Handers Day
Oh and Mrs. C said it is inborn that Master C is a left-hander as she remember seeing him sucking his left hand thumb during one of the gynae visit ultra-sound scan...
posted by the spear carrier @ 4:56 pm
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