Thursday, April 12, 2018

Lefty Tips

We noticed from a REALLY young age that Griffin was most-definitely left-hand dominant. 




She reached for toys with her left, would touch our faces mostly with her left and when she started eating finger foods she ALWAYS picked them up with her left.  If we handed her something to her right hand, she'd switch it to her left and then put it in her mouth :) 



When we started doing crafts and coloring with her it was no exception...




When she started Pre-K this year they helped her A LOT with cutting and she can now do that with her right hand but literally everything else is left...


So here's where I need your help :)  I've never had a lefty and we've had a few challenges arise that I have no idea how to help her through.  For example, when she's writing her hand covers up what she just wrote so she can't see it and her letter size generally "grows" as she goes because she's unable to gauge the size based on previous letters because her hand is covering it.


We practice with lined paper so she has something to guide her, but it's still hard.


All this to say - I want and need your tips!  All you lefties or mamas of lefties tell me what advice, tips, tricks or tools you used because I'm fairly clueless when it comes to helping her at home. 


If you'll leave your advice in the comments then everything will be in one place and hopefully this post will be a resource for others as well!

Happy Tuesday, friends!!!

55 comments :

  1. Lefties Unite! :) I don't think most right handed people realize how many things are made for right handed people. We definitely have to learn how to deal with those things in a different way than a right handed person.

    One thing that I find invaluable today with writing is how I was taught to write. When you are right handed, at least when I was learning to write, the right handed kids were told to angle the paper for their right hand. I was taught this same technique only the other way, for a lefty. This enables me to see what I am writing as I am writing it, at least on paper. And it also keeps my left hand from dragging through what I just wrote. (If this paper angling doesn't make sense, let me know, I can try to explain it better.) And this will probably seem backwards to you, but keep in mind your way is backward to us lefties.

    This one might be tricky too. But I have learned to write on things you can't physically tilt by bring the palm of my hand closer to my body and my fingers farther away. My fingernails would literally be facing the ceiling. Does this make sense?

    I understand she cuts paper with her right hand. I don't know how she is able to do that as a lefty, but...go Griffin!! Because lefty safety scissors are the pits. I do recommend, if she ever does want to use her left hand for cutting paper, to invest in a good pair of lefty scissors. I have a pair of lefty adult (sharp) fiskars that I love! This will seem backwards to you as well. I remember the first time my husband picked up and used my lefty scissors, he was very vocal about the scissors being defective. He got a little taste of a lefty using "regular" scissors. :)

    And if Griffin uses her own techniques (that might seem wrong or backwards to you) to get around the right handed world, I would encourage that. I think lefties adapt in different ways that seem to work for each of us.

    Well, that is my two cents. Hope some of this is helpful.

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    1. YES! I was going to suggest this too! My son is a lefty and I researched it alot. Angle the paper to the left. My son wrote backwards alot. Mirror images of how the words were supposed to look.

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  2. Look how tiny baby Griffin was with that cookie!! I have no tips but this will be so helpful to you and others! Great idea!

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  3. I'm a lefty, as is my daughter, and it's funny because I never noticed that before. Although my entire life, teachers always said, "I'm so surprised you're a lefty. Your handwriting is so neat!". lol. I think I've just adapted to not being able to see what I wrote and that darn coil on a notebook, but tilting the page at an angle. When I write, the paper or book is shifted so it's on a diagonal. It makes writing easier for me. Also, I always (always!) have smudge marks on the side of my hand from it moving across what I wrote on the paper - my daughter does too.

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  4. I am left handed, but I don't think there is anything particular my parents did for me - I will have to ask! I know you mention she is able to cut right handed, but my advice would be to get her some left handed scissors. They are amazing and make all the difference.

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  5. I'm going to come back and read these tips! I have two little leftys over here too!

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  6. We’re the right handed parents of two left handed kids (we also have one righty). I’m curious why they taught Griffin to cut with her right hand. Most scissors now are universal, BUT both of my lefties prefer true left handed scissors. I keep both kinds in the house. As for writing, the best advice I got was to make sure they learn a correct pencil grip and do not try writing “claw” style—where they wrap their hand around. It’s super frustrating for them as they’re learning, but it does get better. My oldest is 9 and she complains regularly about getting ink or pencil all over her hand from writing. They do make pencils with a different lead hardness that are supposed to eliminate the smudge...I may buy some for her to try.

    Generally, I try to be as accommodating as possible since 2/3 of our kids are lefties (buying left handed scissors, arranging seating so they aren’t bumping arms with us), but the world is very much geared towards righties so some of it is just helping them learn to adapt...for example we have a fabulous pencil sharpener, but it’s set up for right handed people. They have both learned to use it.

    My grandmother was a leftie, but raised in Europe in the 20s in a Catholic school where she was forced to write with her right hand. That always made me kind of sad.

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    1. I'm curious about this as well. I have 1 child who is a leftie and she learned to cut with her left hand. I'm pretty sure they have a leftie website geared to lefties. We really have had no issues. I wouldn't stress about her handwriting, though, Andrea. Griffin is still so young and it will get better with time. My leftie has the best handwriting out of all of my children. Her cursive is beautiful!

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    2. I really don't think you can call most scissors universal. With left handed scissors, the cut is made to the right. With "regular" scissors, the cut is made to the left. This is HUGE for lefties as you can see where you are cutting.

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  7. Handwriting without tears was the program I used with my children & the teacher book specifically taught me how to teach a leftie. The big thing is to either make a copy, have a second book, or use a different sheet of paper for answers - the crooked wrist comes from trying to see what they are covering up because workbooks are printed for right-handed people. She should also slant the top left-handcorner of her paper to the right (opposite of a rightie), placing the book/material to the right of her paper. Perhaps you can speak with her teacher so she can help with proper placement & good habits. Also, you can pick workbooks and/or paper online. This link may also be helpful: https://www.lwtears.com/hwt

    Be encouraged- my leftie has beautiful penmanship & handwriting & can adjust materials on her own now.

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  8. My oldest is a lefty. No one else in our family is so it came out of no where! I would have her, for now, lift her hand up between letters so she can see what she has written previously. Then she can try to match letter size, it may add time onto her writing, but she is so little and still trying to learn how to write properly that it will be time well spent, My oldest is 14 now, and his only struggles are trying to find a left handed desk at school, which there are so few of (no fair!). Honestly, it all just kind of works itself out- my oldest ended up teaching me a lot about lefties!

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  9. I have two lefties. Honestly, it just took time. An OT screened my son for pencil grip and they did some gentle reminders in school. If your school doesn't have an OT, it would probably be worth a visit to one. But I think the major thing I learned, especially with a more stubborn kid, was not to push it too hard because that can make things worse.

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  10. I am almost 60 and a lefty. Get her left handed scissors. That will help so much or just let her turn the regular scissors upside down. For writing, encourage her to tuck her elbow close to her side versus sticking it out (if that makes sense! LOL) it will help keep her hand in a more up and down position and she can see what she is writing. Lefty’s are awesome!!!

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  11. All three of our kids are left handed (and my husband and I are both right....weird!) but, we don’t really “do” anything. They’re all older than your daughter, and it has been my experience that it sort of just happens naturally. The only thing I did purchase for my older son was something called “space men”. They’re basically a flat clothespin painted like an astronaut. He’d write a word, and then lay a space man next to it to know how far apart to start the next word. I’m not sure if the crowding issue had anything to do with handedness, or just learning to write- but I really think the sizing issue might just be a new writer figuring it out!

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  12. I'm a leftie and am the only one in my family. I can't recall my parents ever doing anything special for me. I just remember having to tilt my paper the opposite way when doing cursive writing. When she gets older, have her refrain from using gel ink pens. They smudge like no other.

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  13. I feel a little silly responding because I don’t have great advice, but my first two boys appear to be lefties as well (6 and 4 yrs). My 6 year old is in kinder and we haven’t don’t anything different (and his teacher hasn’t either) and it’s just worked itself out on it’s own. I wouldn’t stress about special tips or methods yet since she is a new writer. I know in school his teacher just taught everyone the same the ‘correct’ way to write letters (which strokes to do first, in which directions) and just with practice, his writing/spacing/sizing has just worked out the way it should and improved so much throughout the year. I bet things will just straighten out naturally as she writes more in the next couple years of school!

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  14. My oldest daughter is left-handed. So is my Dad. He was a lot of help. I grew up realizing and learning how many things are for right-handed people. My Dad drove the 8 hours to our house to teach my daughter how to tie her shoes. Then again to teach her how to cut her food. We just couldn't do it...Most of the time 'mirroring' for her will help bunches. My best advice is to find a great grown up at school or church to help her with the things you can't figure out!

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  15. My biggest piece of advice is to turn the paper, NOT your hand. There are so many left handed people who write with their hand all hooked around so that they can see what they write. For some reason, at one point, I realized turning the paper achieved the same results. I can see what I write without dragging my hand through pencil/ink and I don't have a horrible cramp in my wrist. I pretty much write on paper that is turned just shy of being horizontal to achieve this, but it works great for me. I never had much luck with items made specifically for left handed people. As I was the only lefty in an all right-handed family, I just adapted for a lot of things. For instance, I still use my mouse with my right hand.

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  16. If the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body . . . Then, only left handed people are in their right mind! My great grandfather, born in the 1880's was left handed. They beat his hand with a stick at school to make him write right handed. He had 16 great grandchildren. Every single one of us is left handed except one. He's adopted!
    Biggest problem is you get pencil smudges on your hand from dragging it across paper. I taught 5th grade for 33 years. Lefty scissors are the worst! The worst thing you can do is tell a lefty where to sit at a table so they don't bump righties. When you do that, you're letting a lefty know that righties are superior!

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  17. Our oldest is a leftie and I've found him some really cool things over the years at the Lefty Store
    https://www.leftyslefthanded.com
    The one thing I've learned with him is just to help him figure out how to do things with his left hand instead of trying to get him to switch. The hardest thing for him to learn so far is how to cut steak ; ) Good luck!

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  18. Lefty over here! White boards were the devil growing up LOL! Everything I would write would get erased by my hand. I will agree with tilting the paper. That seemed to help me be able to see what I just wrote a little bit better. I guess its just going to come with lots of practice. I hated spiral notebooks because I couldn't rest my hand flat. Also, 3 ring binders seemed to work well for me in school since I could take the paper out and write on a flat surface and then stick it back in the binder.

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  19. Oh man! This post is just what I need. I'm raising a lefty and she is just starting to write (newly 4).It's hard for me to help her already so I will take any tips I can.

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  20. Totally agree on angling the paper and lefty scissors and non smudge pens. This isn’t writing advice just lefty in general, make sure her sports instructors know she’s left handed. My daughter wouldn’t speak up and then she would struggle because they were teaching her right handed (think cart wheels, tennis, kicking a ball, playing a ukulele). She’s a pro at most of those right handed now but I didn’t really know as a first time mama to speak up and make sure she spoke up:).

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  21. Perfect timing! I'll be following along and reading the comments for sure - my oldest's PreK3 teacher just told me yesterday that she thinks he is going to be a lefty :) He had been switching hands with a lot of things but seems to be choosing his left hand over his right more often than not now.

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  22. I'm a lefty and I never did anything special for my writing. I've learned to find pens that don't smudge too bad, but definitely always had the lefty pinky smudge in school from pencils and pens. I think with practice, her writing will naturally improve. I also just learned to use scissors with my right hand because growing up in a small town, there wasn't anywhere that sold left-handed scissors and there was no Amazon back then either. I also second the comment above about sports. I can do quite a few things decently well right-handed because it was difficult for people to teach me left-handed, and as a shy child, I didn't like speaking up or being called out for being different.

    Side note: I have a 5.5 month old daughter and she seems to favor her left hand, which makes me super happy! I'd love to have a special bond over our left-handedness!

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  23. Handwriting Without Tears! Great resource and often used in many schools.

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  24. I'm left handed and grew up with 3 other siblings who were too. We never overtly did anything, I naturally flipped scissors so they worked for me. I titled the paper at an angle that worked for writing. I think most adjustments will be figured out all on her own, in time.

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  25. I'm also a lefty that cuts with scissors with her right hand and throws a ball with her right hand. When I write, I completely turn the paper sideways so my left arm can rest on the table and have support while writing and see what I'm writing at the same time.

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  26. I don't have any left advice, but I'm super curious about the muffin tin paints they are using! Is that something you mixed up?

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  27. I also bought from the "lefty store" they have notebooks, and other fun items. Like....pens that won't smear when your hand moves over your writing. I am ambidextrious and have two lefties!

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  28. I have two left handed teenagers. My husband and I are both right handed. We have never done anything differently for them. Everything has just come naturally. But both of my children have never complained or expressed frustration with school work. They have never been taught to do anything right handed. So I would say, try to help with those things that Griffin is expressing frustration with, but maybe let other things just happen naturally. Since her writing is causing an issue, then just address that for now. Someone mentioned to angle the paper differently, which sounds like a great tip. Maybe you could ask some of your students who are left handed for advice. Maybe one of them would like to help mentor her with practicing her handwriting. Hope my two cents helps!

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  29. I echo the sentiments of the first Jennifer on the comments.  My son, who is now 11, is left-handed and when he was learning to form his letters I tried correcting him on letter formations as well thinking he was forming them incorrectly or backwards. What I later realized when my second child was learning to write is that there is actually a different way left-handers form their letters which I later found on Pinterest under left handed letter formations.  He also learned paper placement, holding his pencil a little higher with the help of a piece of tape as a reminder, and to have his elbow closer to his body.  This has also helped when writing on white boards but they are still the worst thing for them.  He also taught himself to adapt to cutting right handed.  He found it easier because as he has gotten older and switching classes throughout the day most of his classes have had a general basket for scissors.  I think most schools/teachers don't realize when they have those baskets that they also need  true lefthander scissors  and not the universal ones.  There are some great ones on Amazon from the lefty store.  One last thing, my son did have a couple of teachers early in grade school who were lefties and when he was learning cursive, they would print off the handwriting papers with the letters and words on the right side of the paper. This helped greatly so he could see how they should look.  I believe one was from abcteach.com.  His handwriting now is amazing.  Good luck, I'm sure she will have beautiful handwriting.

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  30. The "growing" letters will work itself out with maturity. My daughter has beautiful penmanship.

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  31. My daughter is 4.5 and her right hand is pretty much for decoration only. She is so strongly left-handed! (Also left foot dominant with sports [soccer, dance, and karate], which I guess isn't always the case. Her soccer coach and dance teacher have been great about taking a minute to remind her which foot to lead with.) School has helped with writing (as well as my Mom who is also a lefty), but one of the biggest places we've had to make accommodations is in the kitchen. She loves to help cook and we have to flip everything for her. We need to put things closer to her left side, we need to turn the pan when she helps us cook (she can do basic scrambled eggs with minimal supervision, but we have to make sure the handle is on the right side), we've had to teach her how to hold the bowl with her right when she mixes things, etc. Everything else she's been able to adapt to relatively easily at this point, but I'm sure when we hit shoe tying and more writing work, there will be some struggles.

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  32. I'm a lefty, my son is a lefty, my grandmother was a lefty, and my grandfather on the other side was ambidextrous. I'm also a teacher. You need to totally turn her paper to the right anywhere from 45-90 degrees. Pencil grips are amazing for lefties to grip correctly and not claw the pencil. I also love to have my paper positioned to the left of me, think of having your laptop in front of you and your paper you're writing on is on your right, but I put it on my left. To keep from smudging and getting ink on my fingers I grip the pencil like a righty, but have my fingers back farther from the tip of the pen. Like on a mechanical pencil I grip it where the shaft and pencil end screw together, my wrist is straight. Basically my hand is below my pencil tip. I can see what I am writing.

    As you can see from the comments some love or hate items made for lefties, I can cut with scissors with both hands, I taught my son to do the same. We have both right handed and left handed scissors in the house. My husband is a righty and decided our son would play sports with both hands plus see what comes naturally. Our son is now a switch hitter in baseball, dribbles left handed in basketball, golfs right handed, naturally kicks with his right foot, is an awesome goal keeper in soccer because he can naturally do things with both sides of his body.

    It's no secret that the world is set up for right handed people, left handed people just naturally adapt. Let her do things her own way and figure it out. Set her up for success, put things she will reach for on her left. When she gets frustrated and you don't know how to help her, have her stand in front of you and mirror what you do.

    Don't make a big deal out of it or she may think there is something wrong with her. From looking at how she holds a writing instrument in the pictures...your next Amazon post needs to show what pencil grips you ordered for her...I LOVE pencil grips for lefties!

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  33. I'm a lefty when it comes to fine motor eating, writing ... When it comes to sports I throw a ball right handed, bat right handed, always did cartwheels right handed. I remember slanting my paper as mentioned earlier. Also used the pencil grippers a lot in elementary school. I do remember having lots of pencil and ink smudges on my hand when writing a lot. I like being a lefty, it's kind of cool to be different :)

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  34. I am currently in OT school and reference this blog a lot for different areas of pediatric treatment - she has some GREAT handwriting tips for lefties! All geared toward kiddos who are Griffin’s age :) http://mamaot.com/tips-for-teaching-lefties-to-write/

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  35. I have zero tips but two of my best college friends are lefties and their handwriting is gorgeous! My dad is a lefty too and his handwriting looks like it was typed- so unique!

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  36. I'm a 40yr old lefty and I've never even thought about turning the paper so I could see what I had written. LOL. I honestly can't even see how that would work and still write normal?? I always had the smudge marks on my pinky and I HATED notebooks/spirals and scissors that wouldn't cut for me. I shoot a basketball right handed but dribble better with my left, I bat a softball/baseball right handed but throw with my left.

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  37. I am left handed, I was taught to not turn my hand in, and to angle my paper to the left. I do everything left handed, except bat. which is odd to me.

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  38. My son is left handed. He's 8 years old, and the hardest thing we've come across is learning to tie his shoes - trying to teach him since I am right handed! He still struggles with that. We haven't really made a big deal out of him being left handed though - I think that is key! Just treated him like I would treat a righty! He adapts, and your precious girl will too!

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  39. I am a lefty and a Kindergarten teacher! I love when I have leftys in my class because I can so relate to them :) The sizing of her writing should change with time and practice. The more she writes and learns her letters the better she will get at that! My advice would be let her adapt however is comfortable for her!

    What I struggled most with growing up was sports because no one could ever teach me the correct way to throw a ball, swing a bat, golf club, etc.

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  40. I have two lefties and I am left-handed - honestly they just get used to it. I think the writing size issue is true of most preschoolers regardless of hand dominance (I volunteer in kindergarten and handwriting is all over the place). Mostly, try angling the paper and giving it time and practice - it comes!

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  41. My son just turned 5 and he is left hand dominant. He used to color and cut with both hands but throughout this last year in preschool/preK he favors his left hand for writing and uses it pretty much exclusively when writing/drawing/tracing/etc. While he uses his left hand for writing he swings a bat and catches a ball with his right but kicks a soccer ball left footed. My younger son who will be 3 on Monday seems to be right hand dominate with writing/coloring but swings left handed, catches a ball right handed, and kicks a soccer ball right footed. It is very hard to keep track of between the 2 of them...lol. I don't have very many tips because honestly I have not thought much about it but I will definitely be coming back to read what others offer up so I can better meet his needs as a lefty.

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  42. Hi Andrea! The sizing of her letters is common with that age and I totally agree....Handwriting Without Tears is an amazing program (for people left handed or right handed)!

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  43. No advice, just an encouraging lefty story. :) Both my parents are leftys but my 3 siblings and I are all rightys. Growing up, my dad taught all 4 of us to bat and golf left handed (essentially making us switch hitters) because he thought that was the best way for us to play those sports! I loved having that piece of him whenever I was playing on the field or in gym class. :)

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  45. I'm a lefty and I too use my right hand for scissors (those lefty scissors are awful). But, I cut with a knife with my left and my right! Anyways, don't worry, she will adapt and find out what works for her. I angle my paper towards 2:00 (hope that makes sense)and then I don't have any problems.

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  46. I'm a lefty and neither my children or grandchildren are. Bummer. I don't know how this happened, but, fortunately, I never had that awkward hand position when writing. I hold my pen/pencil just the same as a right-handed person does and I get complimented on my handwriting. My lefty friends write with that hand turn and don't have very good penmansip. I'm not sure how that happend to them unless a right-handed person thought that was how they were supposed to hold their pens. Anyway, there are things I use my right hand for, like using scissors. It can be an advantage in sports. I found it confusing to opponents in tennis! She'll work it out. It's kind of nice to have something "out of the norm".

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  47. My daughter is now 10 1/2 and up until she was 6 she ALWAYS struggled to cut things properly and her pencils were always breaking. I just thought you are pressing way too hard and attributed it to the fact that she was 6. Rewind a few years, I was out in San Francisco for work and had a free night and walked down to the pier and there was a LEFT HANDED STORE! I walked in out of curiosity and $100 later had her scissors, pencils (they have thicker lead), and notebooks (the spirals are on the other side)... She is such huge into crafts and the scissors helped tremendously. I just need to find pens that dry fast as she gets older and she smears the ink a lot and gets frustrated. The older she has gotten though she has learned out to write straight but I remember having to draw light pencil lines on cards and erase after she would write. :)
    https://www.leftyslefthanded.com/category_s/163.htm

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  48. As a lefty I have to disagree with angling the paper to the left. I've seen other lefties do this because someone was trying to force them to write with their right hand. I never had any issues with my hand writing being smeared.
    When the paper is angle to the left then the hand curves awkwardly and that's just not normal. These are all MY opinions of course as a left handed person. I never had problems using right handed scissors. My mom bought me left handed scissors and I remember sitting in 1st grade and having trouble cutting. My teacher gave me strange looks and surely thought something was wrong with me! She looked at my scissors then handed me a pair of right handed ones. Viola!! I could cut paper!! LOL (I was using the leftie scissors with my right hand!)
    Lefties tend to be right brained thinkers making us more creative as well! So feed her creative side!

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  49. As a fellow lefty I wanted to chime in, but I'm afraid I don't have much advice! In 4 year old program they tried to make me switch unsuccessfully. After that no one bothered me or offered me lefty versions. I adapted. I have scratchy handwriting and while I do smear with my fist as I write it's pretty much the same size. There are a bunch of things I do right handed, and using scissors is one of them. Putting at putt-putt. Putting my hair in a bun. A few things I can interchange, like tweezing my eyebrows (I use the hand above the corresponding eye) or swinging a softball bat. Everyone is different! I honestly don't even think about it until someone comments on which hand I'm using. Thanks for this post, I had fun reading everyone else's comments :D

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  50. My son was the same way; we noticed by the time he was 2 that he was left handed (though EVERYONE told us to just wait and there was no way we could know that that early)... of course he is left handed. I have to say I had the hardest time teaching him simple things like shoe tying or how to hit a baseball. He had some problems with writing but I found that he naturally found a way to deal with it on his own in time.

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  51. I'm a little late to the left handed party but I loved when my parents found left handed notebooks for me. OH and binders are the worst! But what I found that helped me a bunch (when I was GG's age) was using pencil grips. The triangle ones and golf pencils. Eventually I needed some OT but now I am a teacher and things are fine.

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  52. My mom and myself are both left handed and she made it so special for me as a kid. Neither of my kids are, but we both watched them in those early years “hoping”! As for advice, I don’t turn the paper or my hand and don’t remember having any problems- and I am always asked to write the place adds, signs, etc be I have the neatest nicest printing. I would say let her figure it out. I also ditched the 1 left handed dull pair of scissors in every classroom basket and ended up using righ handed scissors. Just remember everything is orientated to the right- simple things like ladles, and door handles (phones used to drive me crazy, but cell phones cancelled that) And as for sports, I had a tennis coach try for weeks to instruct me to play left handed, and I was struggling so much, and then I got their early one day, was playing right handed, and suddenly it all was easy. All my stories really say is to let Griffin be the leader in all this, and she asks for help or struggles with needing special supplies, then help her, but otherwise just establish how special and unique it is- maybe buy a book of famous left handed, there are a lot! And also let me say that as usual, I love your thoughtful and loving parenting with all of your children’s individual traits/needs/amazing selves. They are so lucky to have you as their mama!

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