It is believed that the number of lefties in the world is increasing - or maybe they just stopped retraining? If you also have a left-handed child, you need to think about preparing him for school, teach him to navigate on a sheet of paper and hold a pen and pencil correctly in advance. What difficulties can arise when teaching a left-handed child at school and how to overcome them?
Each of the hemispheres of the brain performs certain functions. In a right-handed person, the right hemisphere works with images: the occipital lobes are responsible for visual perception, image recognition, and so on. The temporal lobe of the right-hander perceives sounds, intonations of speech and timbre of the voice. The parietal lobe of the right hemisphere in a right-handed person allows a person to feel his body and make meaningful, purposeful movements.
The left hemisphere of the right-handed person is purely speech: the temporal lobe "decodes" the language and is responsible for auditory-speech memory, thanks to which we remember what was said at the beginning of the phrase when we hear its end. The occipital lobe of the left hemisphere in the right-hander deciphers symbols: the alphabet, mathematical signs, road signs, etc. The left parietal lobe in the right-hander is responsible for articulation, and the left frontal lobe of the right-hander is responsible for the correctness of speech; it also forms the skills of logical thinking, logical behavior, planning and regulation of all our activities. All speech skills are fixed only with the help of the functions of the frontal lobe.
In an absolute left-handed person, the hemispheres completely change functions: the right one is responsible for speech, the left one is for figurative thinking. All these features and preferences are finally formed by the age of 5–7, before that the “leading” hand may change periodically. Therefore, it is better to determine whether your child is left-handed or right-handed closer to school.
Both absolute right-handers and absolute left-handers live relatively comfortably, they easily master the skills of speech, writing and reading, unless the left-hander is forcibly retrained to write with his right hand. But, in addition to absolute left-handers and right-handers, approximately 50% of the population has partial or mosaic, and sometimes hidden left-handedness. (When, for example, a child writes with his right hand, but scores balls with his left foot.)
If you ask your acquaintances, among them there will surely be a large number of obvious, hidden, and partial left-handers. An overtrained or hidden left-handed adult, due to confusion in the functions of the hemispheres, may have difficulty understanding speech, literate writing, handwriting, and coordination of movements. But even in 100% right-handed or left-handed people, one hemisphere can be a little "stronger" than the other.
How to prepare a left-handed child for school
So, there is no need to retrain the left-hander. So what to do? In everyday life, left-handedness does not greatly interfere with the child. But how will he write at school? That's what most parents worry about. It really has its own difficulties and secrets.
If a child has a dominant left eye, he may not immediately learn paper orientation. Vision is arranged in such a way that the left-hander involuntarily looks with his left eye at the right side of a book or notebook. It happens that a left-handed child begins to read a word from the end. It's nonsense, and he doesn't dare say it out loud. Parents or the teacher do not understand why the child reads with pauses, they rush him, while the baby needs help.
Problems with reading, writing and speech can occur in left-handed children and in cases where their dominant eye is left and their dominant hand is right. To help the child, in texts for reading and when reading individual words, you can mark with a colored pencil letter to start reading a word.
Often left-handed children write capital letters in reverse, "reversed". It is useless to make comments to such children. It is better to invite the child to design letters from different lengths of sticks and semicircles according to the model, and then offer to write off the letters along the lines planning the direction of movement, equipped with arrows, and dotted dots - showing where to start and where to lead the line. It is useful to say with the child the plan for writing the letter: first ... then ... draw his attention to the similarities and differences in the elements of the letter.
When a left-handed child begins to draw and write with his left hand, do not interfere with him, but help him place his hand correctly. Take a closer look at how your right hand lies while writing: you have a piece of paper (notebook, album) directed by the lower left corner to the chest. The right hand from the elbow to the hand fits snugly to the table and to the top of the sheet of paper. The hands of a left-handed child should lie on the table so that the elbow of the left hand protrudes slightly beyond the edge of the table and the left hand moves freely along the line from top to bottom, and the right hand lies on the table and holds the sheet so that it does not fidget.
The left hand should be facing the table surface. The points of support for the hand are the nail phalanges of the slightly bent little finger and ring finger, as well as the lower part of the palm.
A pencil or ballpoint pen is placed on the upper, nail part of the middle finger, and the nail phalanges of the thumb and forefinger hold the pencil at a distance of 1.5–2 cm from the writing part of the pencil or "ball". In the process of writing, the left-hander moves from left to right (the direction of the pen is to the left, and the movement of the hand and fingers is to the right).
The left hand with a pen or pencil is under the line. This is the most convenient way of writing, since the child does not have to "twist" the hand, the pattern is clearly visible, and previously written is not smeared. Naturally, the letters will be written with an inclination to the left. This inclination is often observed in right-handers.
The main thing is to give the child the opportunity to write conveniently for him, to minimize the likelihood of involuntary errors, so that the child can calmly control his writing. At the same time, the notebook lies with an inclination to the right, the lower right corner of the page is directed towards the middle of his chest.
It is difficult for a left-handed child to navigate in a notebook, in a line. He finds it difficult to determine the side of the beginning of the letter. In this case, it is necessary to mark the left side of the line with a colored vertical line or dot to find the correct "starting point" for the beginning of the letter.
And let us remind you: before the age of 6–7 it is categorically not recommended to teach a child to write - his hand and eyes are not yet ready for this, regardless of whether he is right-handed or left-handed.
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Lefty - how to teach to hold a pen. How to help your child learn to write beautifully and quickly. That is why it is so important to teach the child to hold the pen correctly at the beginning of training, especially if the wrong skill is formed, it will be very difficult to retrain the child.
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No, you are wrong, you need to retrain, the child really needs to buy a special pencil or pen, German sets have both pens and pencils in the set, there is a rubber base for the fingers, I think you saw it, you just didn’t pay attention
I am a supporter - how convenient)
those. show how to do it right, try to teach it too, but if it doesn’t work, then fall behind
I myself have been holding it wrong all my life) does not interfere with life)
often the wrong grip happens with hidden left-handers or two-handed, and then at least kill yourself and relearn)
Lefty child. Useful links. Adoption. Discussion of adoption issues, forms of placement of children in families, raising foster children, interaction with Section: Useful links (Girls, give a link about how to teach left-handers to write beautifully). Lefty child.
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Last year, I took two left-handers to the first class, having bought them the whole arsenal: special pens, special prescriptions, special scissors and special rulers. In January, by a strong-willed decision, by agreement with the teacher, she retrained one to the right hand. As a result, in the second grade I have one beautifully writing left-hander and one decently writing ambidexter.
09.10.2013 23:23:03, O-k-s-a-n-aGirls, and when the child is precisely determined - is he right-handed or left-handed? The speech therapist seemed to say that up to 4 years old, so we are already 4 ... He eats, plays and draws with his right, then with his left hand. On the left he says that he is more comfortable ...
Lefty / righty has absolutely nothing to do with it. For example, my son was determined in the 1st grade - everything leading is left, it is important not to put him in the very left row from But we both ride and do everything "like a right-hander", but both with, to put it mildly, not brilliant motor skills.
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Oh, and here I am, for example, this very natural ambidexter. I didn’t find any cons for myself in this life, solid pluses. Do not bother. You are true about this, let the child do as he pleases.
I'm 100% left-handed, I do everything with my left hand. It is more convenient for me to stand with my right, push with my left.
The first-grader is left-handed and handwriting. Education, development. A child from 7 to 10. Today he came with homework: write the elements of the letter G. According to his son, the teacher told the left-handers to write the elements with an inclination to the left.
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Grade 2 Lefty. The flight is normal. The teacher, at one time, told us to keep the notebook straight, i.e. do not tilt anywhere, and the letters - as it will, but try traditionally to the right. Now writes well, there is a slight tilt to the right. The hand is not held in a "hook", like Obama, but usually. the only problem is that you need to pick up quick-drying ink and "eraser pens" are not for us - the hand smears the already written line.
09.10.2012 08:32:10, eeeeeeThanks to everyone for the answers :) We decided to write in a way that is more convenient. Tomorrow I will talk with the teacher so that she does not insist on the left slope. Itself never met with copy-books lined under the left slope. That's why I thought, what if I missed something :)
At the age of 4, the teacher suggested that he was left-handed). Right-handed or left-handed - how to determine? Hello, my son is 6 years old. At the age of 4, the teacher suggested that he was left-handed. (He was VERY bad at holding a spoon and a pencil with his right hand.)
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Most likely left handed. It will be easy to do everything with your right hand. And we are left-handers (the eldest), it was clear from the age of 6 months. And there is no way we can be retrained. In the garden, they tried to teach him to eat soup with his right hand - nothing happened.
I would develop both hands. Ambidextrous is a very popular topic these days. Many almost see the guarantee of future genius :)
Teach how not to harm.. Education. Adoption. Discussion of adoption issues, forms of placement of children in families When I was doing algebra with other people's children, I noticed more than once how difficult it is for left-handed people to solve examples, because they cover everything previously written with their hand.
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Oksana, keep in mind that there is one danger. In critical situations, when the question of "life and death" arises and the count goes on for seconds, a person, on instincts, begins to act with the hand that leads from nature. And not the one that has become more familiar in the process of life experience.
Therefore, if your boy is left-handed by nature and you decide to retrain him, be sure to maintain the functionality of your left hand.
How do lefties write? Preparation for school. Child from 3 to 7. Education, nutrition, daily routine, attending kindergarten and relationships with thanks to those who answered! I don’t bother about written letters, they will teach you at school, and there are few spelling options in my own way.
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Any preschooler is allowed to mirror. Left-handers mirror more often and more actively.
Read Bezrukikh and look at her copybooks, not in order to teach, but in order to see that it is often more convenient for left-handed children to write letters differently than right-handed ones.
I am also left handed. So, now, half a year almost before school, her way of writing is very different from how she started writing. I don't understand how your child writes from your description. I just think that at 5 years old it's too early to sound the alarm .... everything will still change several times.
I know that finally right-handed - left-handed is determined by 2 years. And for many, only by this age (i.e., quite late) have children decided on their hands? Kirill has been getting confused for a month now (before that, he took everything clearly with the right).
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Not by 2 only, by the age of 5.
And if the child is left-handed, you won’t confuse it with anything :) However, like a pure right-hander.
determined after 5.
mine can eat with two spoons simultaneously.
I will not retrain, I will not translate. will determine itself.
teachers in our Montesorkas told me to poke out a new object in the middle so that she herself chooses which hand to take
If the child is left-handed. My husband is also left-handed, and I am ambidextrous, our daughter is left-handed. They started writing at the age of 4, it was very difficult to teach them how to hold a pen. A left-handed child is unique. How to properly raise a left-handed child. Why am I left-handed and other children are not?
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and to teach - just like a right-hander)
there is not much difference, except that writing with your left hand from left to right is not so convenient - the hand gets dirty)
At this age, all this is not scary if speech develops normally. The child runs away not because there is a lot of energy, but because the attention is still involuntary and cannot do such things for a long time. 5 minutes is quite normal, even good, you just need to do several different approaches per day. I didn’t understand what the point was in plastic tweezers, metal is also quite suitable if it is not for dissection, that is, not with tips as thin as needles.
Girls who have left-handed children, tell us how to properly teach a child to write in copybooks. There are special recipes for lefties. True, they were not useful to my son, I am interested in the future. and basically asked how to teach how to write in them correctly ...
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My left-hander :) already in the 4th grade, they didn’t bother with cursive at all, I also rejected scissors for left-handed people, but the correct pen is needed, IMHO, definitely. My son’s handwriting, of course, is peculiar, this does not prevent him from receiving mainly 5 :)
There are special recipes for lefties. True, they were not useful to my son - he wrote in ordinary ones, and quite well. The main thing is to choose a good pen so that it does not smear.
How to teach left-handed writing? The child is left handed. Child psychology. And about mirrored letters - this is generally up to 6 years old. The terrifying daughter stopped mirroring only when she learned to write in capital letters at school, and even then not quite.
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These are the problems people create for themselves. My son is 6 years old, he will go to school. When he writes not a task, but for himself, he writes in general in any direction he wants: maybe half from left to right, in the middle of a line he can start writing vice versa - from right to left, and also from bottom to top. And about mirrored letters - this is generally up to 6 years old. The terrifying daughter stopped mirroring only when she learned to write in capital letters at school, and even then not quite. I didn’t even confuse capital E and Z in the first grade, in English (she wrote in it from the age of 4) - b and d. And none of them is ever left-handed.
you, of course, know better, but at that age you can’t edit a child’s writing at all. if you do not want to completely discourage him from learning. and right-handers at 6-7 years old have the right to mirror and make mistakes in writing letters, and for left-handers this is not a tragedy at all. My Seryoga is also left-handed. Writes with pleasure. essno, wrong. I don't correct him, only sometimes. But he's okay with it. but Nadia became possible to rule only quite recently. before, she was terribly offended and generally stopped writing if something was wrong.
Is it possible that at the age of 5 a child should be able to write perfectly by the time he enters this primer class of yours?
Right handed, left handed or...? I began to notice something that my child, who always and confidently chose the right hand, starts part of the work. Allegedly, there are simple test exercises, by performing which you can determine in a first approximation whether he is left-handed or right-handed.
how to define it? I try to slip everything into my right hand: a spoon, a pencil, a toothbrush. Max himself often shifts everything to the left. I found more tests :) How do you know if you are left-handed or right-handed? The tests for determining this in an infant are observations: which hand ...
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I don’t retrain, and in the garden I said not to be retrained :) though he sometimes shifts it to the right and eats a little, but to draw, etc. still only left
