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Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting 3 years ago

I am just wondering out there out of you immediate family who is right handed and who is left handed. My husband is Right handed, I am Right Handed, My son is Right handed, and my daughter is left handed (dominant) but may be ambidextrous...just starting to find out? What about your family?

 

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froggieslover (1734) response was accepted on 11/11/2009.
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1. myLot reputation of 93/100. doormouse (2368)   ranked 2,313 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

i'm right,my 14 yr old is right,my 12yr old is right,but my 8yr old is left

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2. myLot reputation of 99/100. bounce58 (8400)   ranked 21 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

My 2 kids are left handed. I am right handed. But when I play pool I am left handed. I don't consider my self ambidextrous, but I can play right or left at the pool table. I just can't break with my right. So I play left in pool.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

hi Bounce58, Thanks for your response. The more i research on the subject it looks like right or left handedness is not really the same as right or left sidedness--as in sports. It also looks like ambidexterity tends to lean toward left hand dominant but not always.

Thanks for your input :P

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3. myLot reputation of 98/100. froggieslover (1734)   ranked 720 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

Every one in my immediate family is right handed except for me, same goes for my extended family like my parents and aunts ans uncles all except my one aunt and she is the ones that actually taught my to tie my shoes because it was hard for my mom to do being she was right handed and that fact that I was doing it all backwards. At first I thought my daughter might be left handed but as time passed I realized she wasn't. I only write and eat with my left hand though, I throw and catch with my right and my husband think I am weird because I have to do both my throwing and my pitching with my right hand, he is trying to teach me to use my opposite hand but it isn't easy.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

Hi Froggieslover, I can't imagine how difficult it might be to learn to be a different side when you are older. I know I am a coach for childrens baseball and it is much easier to teach at those ages then learn as an adult. Our brains seem to be locked in to what we do...not to say that it cannot be done.

It is interesting as my husband and I are both right handed, but I grew up in a home with my mom and my sister being left handed. While my sister bats right she still is a left handed pitcher. I have caught for her all my life so it is interesting but I don't even notice the left-handedness with other pitchers, probably because I am so used to it. Whenever my coaches would say "okay guys you need to watch out because this pitcher is left handed...I didn't really get it...aren't we watching the ball anyway?" hee hee

Anyways, my mom and her uncle are ambidextrous...quite fascinating actually. She can write her name at the same time with both hands, forwards and backwards. She can write with her right hand a sentence from left to right in mirror image and the other way as well. From end to start instead of start to finish...

It is handy when decorating windows for Christmas or other holidays as she used to be the one to write on the windows at work so the customers would read merry christmas the right way on the outside but she would do it from the inside in mirror mode.

Fascinating...thanks for your response

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4. myLot reputation of 97/100. Jae2619 (1201)   ranked 159 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

With in my immediate family my husband is right handed, but can shoot pool with either, everything else is right handed dominate. My son, who's 7, writes left handed but with everything it's which every is closer for him to grab things with. If you set the fork for his meal on the right side he'll pick it up and go for it with his right hand. My daughter, who's 2, is gonna be right handed completely. She can't do anything with her left, and it honestly confuses her if she tries too. Myself, I can do many things with either hand. I write right handed but can with my left as well, the only think i prefer to do right handed is eat... less messes that way, lol.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

Ha! yes I get it with the eating. Whenever we go to a restaurant my sister and my mom have to sit together otherwise it is too crowded to eat.

Thanks for your post.

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5. myLot reputation of 92/100. happy6162 (2772)   ranked 2,996 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

I and my husband and son and granddaughter and daughter-in-law are all right handed.

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6. myLot reputation of 94/100. sender621 (12069)   ranked 928 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

All of the members of my family are right handed. My mother was left handed but her school made her switch to her right hand. There are still some things she does more with her left hand than her right. I wonder if there are still schools that prefer students to be righthanded. I always thought it would be something to be abble to write with either hand. I've tried and found I was better off being righthanded.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

Its interesting you talk about this. My husbands father is left handed but they made him be right handed. I haven't really seen him since all this has come up but I think he does things--other than write-- predominently with his left.

The school that my daughter goes to noticed she switched hands sometimes during writing and said to me that they think they should focus on her writing with her right hand. I told them no. I believe it doesn't really matter what hand she writes with. Until I have evidence that it may hinder her progress, I don't even want to chose a hand. I think she should. But ever since she was about 3 she has been very left hand dominant so if I had to choose a side I would choose left for her.

Thanks for your post and happy mylotting.

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7. myLot reputation of 95/100. kezabelle (2745)   ranked 500 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

I am right handed (im an identical twin and she is left handed as is very common with identical twins) my childrens father (my partner) is left handed both our girls are right handed though.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

thats cool with you and your twin! I am fascinated. Probably helped you guys communicate even better as children. Even though my sister and I weren't twins her and I could easily communicate, and I think it has to do with being opposite like that. Together we are a great ball player, separately we both have different strengths but feed off each others strengths...it is cool.

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8. myLot reputation of 98/100. maximax8 (17670)   ranked 463 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

I am right handed and my children's dad is left handed. My children are right handed I think. I am certain that my oldest son is right handed and believe that my toddler son is also right handed. My baby daughter is too young for me to be certain. I imagine that she will be right handed.

I am a primary school teacher. I have taught some left handed children. I am always careful where I sit left handed children. I give left handed children special scissors to use. I think that it must be excellent to be ambidextrous. I am not I know because when I broke my right arm I was hopeless at writing with my left hand.

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9. myLot reputation of 37/100. Brown_Fox_815 (100)   ranked 5,085 out of 9,015 in parenting   3 years ago

I'm right-handed. The left-handed people in my family (that I know of) are my 6-year old son, my dad, my grandmom (my dad's mother), and I think my uncle (my dad's brother) is ambidextrous.


Yunion164 (20)   ranked 6,233 out of 9,015 in parenting  3 years ago

it would be interesting to know about your uncle--what makes him ambidextrous?

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10. daxster96 (1)   3 years ago

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