Left Handed

 

Any left handed people in your family?

Are you left handed?

I have been thinking about how different it is to be left handed I have a sister and a niece no not mother and daughter just so you know, anyway what was I saying. Oh yeah I have been told by them that it isn't just different but can be difficult at times doing things left handed.

Thankfully I don't know of any problems my sister had at school except I think there was one teacher who told mum that Jeannie should be using her right hand and mum told her no that's not how Jeannie is and not to try and force the issue.

I do however, know that there was a time when being left handed was treated as a bad thing maybe even a sin by some people and that when at school left handed children were forced to use their right hand.

To me forcing a child to do something that doesn't come naturally for them like which hand they prefer to use. I feel the treatment of left handed children by some teachers was not just wrong but cruel, no child should be made to feel like they are committing a sin by using their left hand.

How can using one's left hand be a sin to me that is just stupid. It can be hard enough being a lefty or a south paw as my grandfather use to say, writing isn't as easy for a lefty as well preforming other tasks such as using a pair of scissors unless they are left handed scissors.

According to Google Lefties make up only about 10 percent of the population, but studies find that individuals who are left-handed are more creativity, have more imagination and intuition and like to daydream. They're also better at rhythm and visualization.