Left Handed Children

The floors of the living space of our house is completely made of marble, carved in limestone, and polished to a silvery sheen. It was cool for the tropics and warm day.

But it was so slippery, especially if water is spilled on it.

Therefore, one day our little boy who was barely a toddler wine three years, jumped on his glass separated from his plastic cup, and fell.

The doctor diagnosed a mild fracture in his left hand, and after a few days in a sling, the fracture healed by himself as he was very weak, and he was well again.

That taught us a lesson in home safety for children. Always make sure the soil is dry, if they are not carpeted.

But there was more to this subject.

I discovered the nature had a way of compensating for the fracture. Soon, he loved wine seemed to use his left hand was fractured more often before the law, and became his strong hand.

He used his left hand for writing, playing with crayons, and for keeping his toys.

He was a lefty "!

Questions raced through my head.

Do I have trained him against his natural desires to ambivalent - to use both hands to write? Would it be dangerous for him emotionally and personally? How does the key when he is older? Would he, who do not forced against his will?

What a dilemma it was!

Let's see what the counseling center for the German left, "Green Cross" Marburg said.

The first test to apply is to identify the left-handed children. This is easily done by observing with what hand he grasped a toy at first spontaneously.

After identifying a child left positive support of the child by helping in the writing and painting exercises.

Left handed children have the hand held-up position. When they write with their left hand, they tended to be easier because it is difficult to see what they write.

Therefore, parents should set the paper to the left of the child, and in the direction of about 30 degrees clockwise, with the hand below the line where the child is writing.

Teach the child to use his right hand to hold the paper on the right side.

If a parent forcing a child to use his left right?

Green Cross has stressed that parents should never force and try to form a left-handed child to become right handed. Reasons?

The left-handed child will start to have concentration problems and difficulties, and also to develop negative psychological effects on later life.

Do I force my son to AAND ambextrous use both hands to write?

When he was 10, I took the biggest store left in the world. It was located on the wharf in Sydney Harbor area. He beamed with all the toys, utensils and everything has been designed for the world of the left hand. The content of this store, he was able to find all designed to meet their needs as a lefty.

To date, wine is always left handed and writes wonderfully well with his left hand.