2007-01-18 02:28:17 · 56 answers · asked by l.a. 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
you should let her at home, but when she is around 10 years, you should start teaching her the proper way, just incase she is in a fine dining setting at some point and she wants to fit in like everyone else.
2007-01-18 02:35:31 · answer #1 · answered by proud mommy and wife 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Let her hold it any way she likes...same with a baseball bat, a tennis racket, a hockey stick etc. Dont force kids to do anything they feel uncomfortable with. Look and see which hand she TOSSES the ball with and buy the glove for the other hand. WATCH them and don't force them into one way or another. Even lefties do some things (in sports) the right handed way.
Golf would be the one thing I'm not sure of but by the time they do that, they will tell you which hand they feel more comfortable swinging with I'm sure. Just give them a hockey stick and see what they do with it. Make sure their first one has the flat bottom and not curved and you'll know thier preference.
Knifes and forks don't mean boo...put it in on the table when they are little and let them go at it.
Often we can make them lefties because we do everything as a righty and are training them to use the left hand...so watch that. Start with the right but if you find them drawing with the left etc. let them do their own thing.
2007-01-18 02:37:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean 'the wrong way round'. How narrow minded to think that there is a right and a wrong way round to holding a knife and fork. I can't believe you actually believe that!! As long as she can use a knife and fork effectively and politely what does it matter which hand she holds the knife in?!
2007-01-18 04:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by clairelou_lane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'the wrong way round'. How narrow minded to think that there is a right and a wrong way round to holding a knife and fork. I can't believe you actually believe that!! As long as she can use a knife and fork effectively and politely what does it matter which hand she holds the knife in?!
2014-10-30 13:23:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm right handed and hold my knife and fork the 'wrong way round'. And do you know it has never effected me in anyway what-so-ever in my 37 years on this planet!
The worst thing is when sitting in a restaurant I swap them over as soon as I sit down only to find the waiter swapping them back, thinking they were layed out incorrectly. Always raises a smile.
But if you want your daughter to use them the correct way round, force her to write right handed and wipe her bottom right handed. Infact solve the problem by cutting her left arm off, if it bothers you that much.
Sorry got carried way with that.
2007-01-18 02:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Gary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think she should hold them any way that she finds comfortable. Surely it doesn't matter which way she holds her knife and fork so long as she can hold them and eat properly and comfortably.
I am right handed but always preferred to use my knife and fork the "wrong" way round until my grandmother took exception to it when I was about 10, now I have no idea which way to hold them!!
2007-01-18 02:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How old is your Daughter?
Personally what ever she finds most comfortable is the best option. Don't force her to use the knife and fork right handed at a young age as this will just confuse her, let her do what she find easiest. You may find that as she becomes older she will switch any way, I am left handed and I did.
2007-01-18 02:33:12 · answer #7 · answered by The Dude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I understand your question...the wrong way around?
With your daughter being left handed, she will probably hold her knife and fork the opposite of what a right handed person does.
2007-01-18 02:32:10 · answer #8 · answered by Riviera_ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a common misconception that left is "wrong". It isn't wrong, it is just uncommon.
Meaning that your daughter isn't holding her knife and fork the wrong way at all, it just may be different from the way you hold it.
If she played baseball would you make her change glove hands and make her throw with the other? Of course not, eating is no different.
Don't worry about it, and let her be the lefty she is.
2007-01-18 03:42:37 · answer #9 · answered by Rosemary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she's comfortable eating that way then it isn't the wrong way round. I'm left handed, but hold the fork in my left hand. Many people hold the fork in their right hand...it makes no difference developmentally.
2007-01-18 02:36:40 · answer #10 · answered by Lauren 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no! Let her use the fork in her left hand, her knife in her right. She can lay down the knife when she's through with it. In terms of etiquette- passing your fork from hand to hand is rude. I'm a leftie and was taught to use a fork left handed, knife on right by an etiquette crazed mother.
2007-01-18 02:34:16 · answer #11 · answered by wwhrd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋