2 right handed parents with a lefty DD

[SadeAyosmom]

My DD is left handed.

She will be starting school Feb 6th (school terms are different in Australia we go from Feb-Dec)

I am right handed and so is SO. When we try to get her to wright her name we have issues with her writing it backwards or writing the letters in odd ways as in ...

say you were writing the letter H as i right handed person i would do the line on the right first then the left then the horizontal line. she writes the opposite.

Does this solve itself? Is this an issue? Do all kids do this?

[TheMrs407]

Its very normal in many children, especially lefties. Just correct her and have her start at the left of the page. Don't stress about it.



Kindergarten teacher

[SadeAyosmom]

I have seen her a few times swap between left to right but i tell her to use the 'comfty' hand. i dont point to it. She is clearly left handed so i dont want her to confuse herself more by trying to swap to the right.

Quoting Melissa_4:

It will resolve itself.  Just make sure the teachers don't try to get DD to write with her right hand.  Make sure they know she's a south paw.

Three of our four are rh, DH and I are RH, and our 8-year-old son is a lefty.  When we set the table, it's easy for him to find his spot since it's the only plate with the fork, napkin and cup on the left.  :-)

[SamiJ18]

Yeah I write with my paper turned almost completely sideways.  I can also write right to left without fail (one of the things I would do while I was bored in school lol).  I always get compliments on my cursive, my classmates like to watch me write because they think it looks cool.  My drawings are beautiful too!  

I can write and draw with my right hand but it is very uncomfortable for me.  It feels unnatural and I'm very slow.

Quoting Anonymous:

Iwas the same way. I m told to this day I hold my pencil funny but I have very neat penmanship ...Several people have told me I write like president Obama lol!

Quoting SamiJ18:

I am a lefty who had 2 right-handed parents.  I sort of figured out writing on my own.  I have no real memory on how I learned.  

We have the opposite problem right now.  My husband and I are both left-handed and our children are right-handed.  

[Rhodin]

If the H ends up looking like an H, then who cares which side of it she draws first.  Also, lots of people, right and left handed wrote letters backwards as kids.  It's a matter of practice.

[mommaoftwo]

Almost all kids take FOREVER to learn the difference between b and d. 

A capital H, I write left line, right line, then across from left to right.

I am the only lefty in my family, I do not know how I learned to write, but kids who are right handed write just as many letters backwards as left handed kids, at that age.

[Sanctimommy]

I always write from left to right. I am left handed. And I was taught to start a letter from the farthest left, not from the right side. 

[SadeAyosmom]

oh good so its not just me and SO.

at the moment we watch her but dont say 'no thats wrong' cause i dont want her to give up! or to second guess i want her to figure it out. So i just watch her and write things for her to copy.

but i do say things like 'do you think yours looks different to mummys?'

as in i wrote SADE and she wrote EDAS.

Quoting CuriousArentYa:

Both my husband and I both are south paws and we have two kids that are left handed and two kids that are right handed. We had a hard time trying to teach the right handed kids to write but they got. It just takes a little time.

[SnortysMom]

Me too. I was the only left handed person in the family (until my niece was born now there are 2 of us! lol). 

I honestly can't remember how I adjusted to writing, just kinda did it on my own. 

I thought for sure my DS was going to be left handed. Since I'm left handed and both of DH's parents were left handed. Nope, DS is right handed. lol

Quoting SamiJ18:

I am a lefty who had 2 right-handed parents.  I sort of figured out writing on my own.  I have no real memory on how I learned.  

We have the opposite problem right now.  My husband and I are both left-handed and our children are right-handed.  

[So.Ill.Mama]

Oh sorry. Idk how you being right handed could show her. A lefty' s mind thinks differently than a righty's. When I learned, I just figured it out for myself. I remember my first grade teacher let me turn my paper a little sideways, but Idk if they would allow it nowadays. My kids are right handed, and when I show them a letter, they pay more attention to the end result than how I wrote it.

Quoting SadeAyosmom:

no i dont mean trying to change her, i mean she mirrors our writing and its wrong.

backwards Ds and such.

Its bad to try change the hand someone writes with doesnt that cause stuttering and other issues???

Quoting So.Ill.Mama:

If she is meant to be a lefty, there's no "fixing" it. I'm the only lefty in my entire family and my dad's mom tried everything under the sun to get me to be right handed. Nothing worked.

[aj23]

My son is a lefty and both his dad and I are right handed. He's never really wrote his letters backwards but he did have a very slow start to writing at all. He didn't want to do it and it was really sloppy for the longest time and all through preK. Now he's been in kindergarten for 6 months he writes about as well as a typical 5 year old. He does tend to write the letters differently but when they are done they are correct (hope that makes sense). I think it's a left handed thing.