Anyone try to make your left-handed kid be right-handed?

homer reese wrote:

Divorce your wife now. She is a control freak. I bet she doesn't give b*******s because she doesn't want to put that thing you pee with in her mouth.

I am left-handed, and I've never had trouble doing anything. I use my left hand for most things, and I use my right hand if I damn well feel like it. It's not that complicated.

I agree that you should maybe divorce your wife. She is a sick f*** (thanks in part to her grandmother, it would seem), and she's just testing the waters now. It will get worse, but even this alone will seriously mess up your kid. She will discover all sorts of things about him (and you) that need to be "corrected."

I write with my left hand and kick with my left foot. However, I throw and swing as a righty and am right-eye dominant.

Bear of Bad News wrote:

Every sporting goods store carries hockey sticks and baseball gloves for lefties.

Oddly enough, I believe Canadians use their dominant hand as the top hand. So a Lefty shoots righty and vice versa. In the US it is the other way around, kids generally that would be righty, shoot righty. So actually in American it wouldn't be an inconvenience. Sorry for the odd info.

My dad plays sports left-handed, but does everything else right-handed. So he has the best of both worlds, he kills at sports and has the convenience of everyday things that right-handed people have.

I find leading with my left foot makes me a better steeplechaser (just trying to stay on topic).

I'm a hdge-podge of lefty-righty. I find I do things that require maybe a bit more fine motor skills left handed (eating, writing, drawing...) and play sports right handed. Although I'm sure there are left handed options out there, I've found the majority of kitchen utensils are right handed. But people adapt, remember Darwin? People can learn to use their feet to write if they have to. I think a lefty could operate a "right handed" zipper if needed.

There are theories that left-handed people are (in general) more tenacious because they are overcoming (admittedly small) obstacles on a daily basis and therefore are somewhat constantly problem solving.

I don't know how true it is but let me tell you this - over 50% of the majors in the chem department at my school are left handed...so it certainly hasn't held them back in any way.

I did this thing you talk about. I must admit it was mistake. After removing boys left hand with machete he got something named carpal tunnel syrdome in right hand. Boy does not want to pitch for Yankees anyhow, he want to be seemstress. Oh why have the Gods forsaken me!!

He make good beggar now though

Her reasoning about life convenience is silly. As a former professor the chalkboard thing was was kind of a pain. And I still hate those stupid electronic signature things you sign after you swipe your credit card.

But like a lot of lefties, I'm really ambidextrous. I write and eat with my left and throw with the right. I think righties are at a disadvantage because they are completely reliant on one hand. Most lefties can use either hand if they need to so they are more versatile.

Leave the kid alone.

qqqq wrote:

I am left-handed and use scissors with my right hand. So there is zero disadvantages for me.

Except for proper grammar, apparently.

I've never met someone as weird as me. I'm pretty much random.

Lefty: writing, brushing teeth, eating

Righty: throwing, cutting (scissors), and I kick right footed.

Being a lefty isn't so bad. Obviously I don't have the scissor problem, but I hardly ever noticed or got annoyed by the right handed desks. The only real disadvantage for me is the fact that you drag your hand across your writing and get it all over your hand and smear it on the page/dry erase board/chalk board.

Apparently lefties can get grants tho, so there's an advantage.

I'm a left BUT:

I use scissors right handed

I kick right footed

I throw frisbees right handed

I golf right handed (but bat left handed)

Oh, and my son is right handed, but left footed.

Some weird genes floating through my bloodlines.

I'm sure Freud has something to say about this.

Let the kid be who he is. If he were gay would your wife try to make him straight? If the answer is yes, dump the judgmental bitch and find someone without her psychoses.

homer reese wrote:

Divorce your wife now. She is a control freak.

I'd agree. This is only the beginning. Fight for full custody.

When I was in kindergarten, the teacher would hit my left hand with a ruler and tell me to use my right hand to write. I refused to do it.

Fortunately, my mother wasn't like your wife. She told the teacher to leave me alone; and she did.

I eat and write left handed, but I throw a ball with my right. Unfortunately, I throw a ball very poorly. A few years ago I began to notice that if I shot a paperwad basket with my left, it was much more likely to go in, even though it feels weird. With my right it's likely to go anywhere. So here I am in my late forties trying to learn to throw with my left. Feels weird as heck.

In my experience, lefties are often highly creative. I think it has to do with learning to get by despite a world not made for you.

don't do it. My mother did the same thing and now I'm a mess. I can only write with right but all my strenght is in my left hand. I eat and throw with my left. you should see me throwing something with right hand, i'm lucky if it goes more than 5 feet.

Definitely do it. And should your son be a little on the short end, you can always break his femurs and extend them an inch at a time. Then, if he turns out to be gay, you can send him to one of those rehab camps with drugs and electroshock therapy. Think of how perfect he can be!

I'm generally not a fan of slippery slope arguments, but using a heavy hand this early in life sets a terrible precedent. Be a father, not a Big Brother.

Make sure you have a fork on you at all times and when he goes to do something (eat, write, whatever) with his left hand, stab the left hand with the fork. Aversive therapy FTW.

I'm right handed but MB with my left. I lead with my left leg for hurdles.