Were you a changed baby?  

I am a preferred right hander. There's a lot of evidence to suggest that forcing a left handed child to become right handed does immense damage to their development and personality. I know that some cultures still hold to the view that the left hand is 'unclean' and the right hand is 'clean' but there is absolutely no physical or logical reason why this should be so, even though there are still lots of terms that suggest it - the Latin for left is 'sinister' and for right, 'dexter' from which we get the word 'dexterous'.

Left or right handedness is part of the very basic programming of the brain and probably is decided in the first few weeks of pregnancy. To try to 'educate' a child to be right handed by forcing them to use their right hand - even tying their left hand behind their back - is to make them feel that they are less than perfect from a very early age. Many left handers who are forced in this way become handicapped by a lack of confidence and stammering is a quite common result of this early and misguided training.

well,i was a right handed baby but the reaserch has shown that left handed people are more intelligent.

I believe I've always used my right hand... although with how crappy my handwriting is, sometimes I wonder if I should have been a lefty! lol!

My youngest started out using her left hand for more things than her right. I honestly didn't care which one she used. I didn't try to change her or anything. I let her choose which one she wanted to use. She used to eat and grab things with her left hand first, but once she started writing, she used her right!

She now just used her right hand for most things... but I still remember thinking she'd be a lefty - which would have been fine with me!

I hate to tell you but I am of the vintage that in school you were changed! I was left handed, but thru school changed to writing ONLY with my right hand, and do everything else with my left hand. Ambidextrous, I guess you could say!

I do know that NOW they do not change you in Canadian schools, because they have discovered that one side or other of your brain is dominant, and by forcing the brain to change, development is stifled.

The old expression is; Left Handed People are the only ones in their Right Mind!

No, if I will know that my child is a left handed i won't changed her/his way I will just leave it and let it be because i heard a lot of stories that left handed person are having a good penmanship and that they were strong in belief and personality.......

Nope I'm Left Handed, and I Love It.

Why would a parent try to force their child to do something that doesn't come naturally? I am left handed and my parents made no attempt to change that. There is no reason to change that. Just like there is no reason to try to change anything else about a child such as their hair color or height. It is a part of who I am and I am glad my parents didn't try to force me to use my right hand. Why is using your right hand better? It's not. If my child is left handed I will encourage him to do the best he can with his left hand.

As far as the statement that this world is made for right handed people, that may be true, but I have no trouble using a mouse, driving a car or using a can opener. I can do anything a right handed person can do.

Wow, I didn't realize people still did that. I had a friend in high school that was raised in England and went to a Catholic school. She was forced to change from left-handed to right handed because it was "evil" to be left-handed. Her penmanship was horrible and she was kinda clumsy. We always wondered if it would have been different if she was allowed to be left-handed. I think it confused her brain a bit.

When my kids were little, I let them choose what hand they wanted to use. I'd set their crayon down in front of them on the paper and they'd pick it up. My oldest is writes left-handed, but plays sports right handed. My youngest writes right-handed, but plays some sports left-handed. I remember when they were playing T-ball and the coach asked if they were left or right handed so he knew what side of the tee to put them on. We already knew that they both batted from the opposite side so we told them where to put them. They were really confused when my youngest plays the field right-handed, but bats left-handed.

I think the reason most things are set for right-handed is because most people are right-handed. A lot of things are pretty easy to change - like the mouse, I've shown many friends how to set it to left-handed.

I have have always been right handed. If I had had a left handed child I would never have forced them to use their right hand. Nature made them that way so what benefit would changing "what came naturally" be to them?

I believe I am an inborn right handed. Both my husband and my siblings are right handed. Yeah, it is true that there are advantages for right handed as most of the equipments likes car gears and so on are designed for right hands. I did see parents who try to change the habit of their kid by using right hands. But normally it ended up with failure especially when the child had already cultivated the habit of using left hand.