Right vs Left Handed?

JulyMomma2U2

Are you trying to encourage one hand over the other?  Both DH and I are right-handed.  I assumed my children would be also, but DS1 is very much showing me otherwise.  Even as a baby, he always tended to reach for things left handed, but now as he's gotten older it's become more and more pronounced, despite our efforts to always encourage the right over the left.  I don't know why I'm so focused on him being right handed.. I guess because I am, and I don't really know how to teach a lefty how to write?  The only person I know that's left handed was an old BF of mine years ago.. I remember watching him write and it looked so difficult!  He used to curl his arm around and almost write upside down.. Anyway, I've stopped trying to encourage him to switch and he pretty much does everything left.  Holds a spoon/fork.. holds a crayon.. etc.  Oh well.

VeilSdeGTO

DH is left handed, I am right handed. It was clear to me very early on that DD#1 preferred to use her left hand. Now at 2yrs old, she still predominantly uses her left hand to hold her spoon/fork, and to color. However, she is starting to use her right hand more.

I've been told they can switch back and forth up until they're 5.

JulyMomma2U2

Thanks ladies.. I hadn't heard that (changing back and forth up until 5)..! 

KikiCohen

DH and I are both lefties that came from two right handed parents.  I couldn't tie my shoes till I was like 6, but other than that, it was perfectly fine.