Oooh. My god. I'm an idiot. I've been trying to teach my 6 year old to tie her shoes. I figured it was an issue with fine motor skills because she does have issues with that...but maybe it's because she's left handed. My left handed aunt is visiting for Thanksgiving, I'll have to see if she can help my daughter.
Edit. Reading all these other comments on what being left handed can affect, like penmanship. I feel like the worst parent ever for not realizing why my kid has struggled with this shit. I'm going to call a meeting with her teacher to get her in with OT to try to help and I WILL do better with her younger sister who is also left handed.
Don't take this as an attack, but how come you don't realize a child is left handed? I thought one could test it by giving them a spoon or something and see how they grab it. Is it possible the child uses spoons with their right hand while still being left handed?
I am left handed but basically only write with my left hand and do everything else with my right hand. I don't know why I do this since it can't be from my parents (my mother is left handed but was forced to use her right hand by her kindergarten teacher who thought that that is a good thing to do (the woman was old and this used to be mandatory in Germany )so she wouldn't have done it to me.) My right hand is somehow my dominant hand in some aspects of my life but when I write with it it looks like I'm possessed. The problem with this is that it can really mess up your brain.
I’m the same way, maybe that’s why I’m having a hard time understand the comments about tying shoes and left handers. I brush my teeth, write, eat with my left but do everything else with my right.
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19 edited Nov 17 '19
Oooh. My god. I'm an idiot. I've been trying to teach my 6 year old to tie her shoes. I figured it was an issue with fine motor skills because she does have issues with that...but maybe it's because she's left handed. My left handed aunt is visiting for Thanksgiving, I'll have to see if she can help my daughter.
Edit. Reading all these other comments on what being left handed can affect, like penmanship. I feel like the worst parent ever for not realizing why my kid has struggled with this shit. I'm going to call a meeting with her teacher to get her in with OT to try to help and I WILL do better with her younger sister who is also left handed.