Is your toddler a lefty?

Question

My daughter is only 2 but she uses her left hand alot. I try to remove something and put it in her right hand but she puts it back in her left hand. So I assume she will be a lefty. Are there any disadvantages for toddlers that are lefties?

Answer 1

im not a toddler obviously but i am left handed. and id id the same thing always put everytihng in my left but there are no disadvantages. actually advantages i am able to use both hands as i grew older.

Answer 2

My husband, sister, one daughter and grandson, all lefty's. Very happy successful college graduates (except my grandson. He's 5). My husband's grandmother kept trying to change hands saying that lefthandedness is a sign of the devil! Can you believe that?? A lot of toddlers will change back and forth until about 3 years. There is a study in a school with only 1 teacher per grade. Both the first and second grade teachers were left handed. 40 % of the kids in that school are lefty. The best thing for the kids is to be accepted for what they are. Other wise their brain is working too hard and doing everything "backwards" Hve you tried to write with your non-dominant hand?? Love and kisses to your daughter. Joke: if right handed people are left brain dominant are left handed people the only ones in their right mind???

Answer 3

That is so funny that you are doing that!

My husband and I are both lefties and I think my son is favouring his right. I’m forever suggesting that he use his left (not by correcting, just by making the left easier by offering things on the left) and he still seems to favour the right.

I don’t mean to offend but it’s funny because we are both trying to accomplish the opposite thing.

Being a leftie really only comes into play when you’re doing sports (in my experience) or using scissors. There’s nothing wrong with being a leftie and I don’t think that there are many disadvantages. How many left-handed hockey players and baseball players are there? Both sports need both sides.

But nowadays, there’s nothing wrong with being left handed – it doesn’t even make you unique anymore. There have been several times when I’ve been in a room and us lefties have out-numbered the righties.

Answer 4

Leave her alone, a lot of children start off using their left hands. My daughter was a lefty until she was about 6 or 7 and then could switch off, it wasn't until she was in highschool that she started using her right hand predominatly because it was more comfortable for her...but she writes like a left hander does. I was a lefty when I started school, but back then they were hell bent on making everyone right handed because if you were left handed you were a communist! (I know ridiculious but communisim was a major threat in the 50s). My kindergarten teacher actually used a ruller with a metal edge to smack our hands with if she caught us using our left hands. I write with my right hand and use scissors with my right hand, most everything else though I use my left. And I too write like a lefty. Or as some say "backwards"

Answer 5

I'm hoping my son is a lefty. So far he uses his left hand a lot. He's already 3. Almost half of my family is left handed. I'm a lefty, my dad is, & quite a few of my aunts, uncles, & cousins are as well. At least this way I can help him learn to write

Answer 6

As a lefty, I have to say that as a child, it was very confusing and frustrating for me when my parents and others tried to switch my natural left handedness. I feel that disadvantages happen more in adolescence and adulthood. It's definitely a right handed world out there, but I have always taken pleasure in that I am different.

Answer 7

Both my son who is 2 and my daughter who is 4 are left handed, and as far as I have seen there have been no complications with them being left handed. The other people in both mine and my husbands family who are left handed are a doctor , an engineer, and a pilot, so I dont think they will have much trouble at all in the long run!

Answer 8

Lefties are more creative free-thinkers, less concerned with materialism and more with idealism. They use more of the right side of the brain. If you try to change it, the child could develop learning disablilities.

Answer 9

The same disadvantage of adults that are lefties.... more things are designed for a righty.

Answer 10

i dont think it really matters at all. my son is 2 and uses his left hand alot and he's able to do everything normally like any other kid who uses there right hand. i wouldnt try to get her to use her other hand you should let her use the one that is comfortable for her.