Are you wondering if your baby will be left-handed?
You may have to wait a couple of years to know. Starting out, babies will use both hands to reach for mobiles, your sparkly necklace, or to pull your face in close. That’s because reaching, grabbing, (and of course, putting their oh-so-adorable hands in their mouths for some good slobbery sucking) are simple tasks that don’t require control over specific, smaller muscles.
Hand dominance only evolves as a baby’s fine motor skills develop. Until those skills develop, both hands get equal play.
As children grow older, they tend to favour one hand over the other for certain tasks, particularly for writing or drawing.
Most children have a preference for using one hand or the other by the age of about 18 months and are definitely right or left-handed by about the age of three.
Forcing them to change hands and write right-handed can have very bad effects in later life as well as being traumatic at the time and ruining their handwriting! ... Changing the hand used for writing causes great confusion in the brain and can have a lot of knock-on effects.
He’ll be no different than his right-handed friends—well, of course, he’ll be different, his own version of himself with an infinite number of future possibilities in front of him. Teacher, dancer, computer programmer, pilot, lawyer —his options are unlimited, no matter what hand he uses.
As a righty, modeling these tasks with your left hand can be a brain puzzler, but you actually have the advantage here! As a right-handed person trying to do something with your left hand, you’ll likely need to slow down and think through the steps a little more carefully—plus, children usually need grown-ups to slow down when they’re teaching something. Having said that, it’s probably a good idea to practice on your own a few times before you show him how to make " a smiley face!!"
Celebrate your lefty. It is true that lefties are uncommon but it's also true that it's a right-handed world.efties don’t have to rub their hands in pen ink. (Genius!)
Invest in a good pair of scissors- When you’re raising a left-handed child, it’s nice to buy him/her a few fun gift items for his/her birthday (in addition to her scissors) so he/she feels special as they are. When you can, use your left hand Celebrate your lefty. It is true that lefties are uncommon but its also true that its a right-handed world.
If your child is naturally left-handed, don’t try to force them into using their right hand. All of this is to say is that if you end up having a left-handed child, you have…well, a left-handed child.
"Make left-handedness feel like a blessing instead of a curse by treating it as one thing that makes your child distinct and special."-- Dr. Sonkin.
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