Many parents try to retrain their left-handed children, forcing them to write and use mainly the right. However, this approach to the child is incorrect and can ruin the child’s abilities, because left-handed people are born with a more developed left hemisphere of the brain, which means that retraining will ruin its full potential. Parents need to value the child and independently contribute to the development of their abilities, but how to determine a right-handed or left-handed child in advance? There are several simple techniques for this.
Left-handed or right-handed - how to learn in infancy?
You can find out the child’s predisposition to use the left or right hand as early as 3-4 months. At this time, children begin to lose vestigial reflexes and begin to use their hands more meaningfully. The hand that begins to lose such reflexes earlier is usually the lead, but in order to determine this, you should sometimes show the child to a specialist.
Tests for determining left-handed people
How to identify a left-handed or right-handed child at a later age? You don’t need specialists to do this; several simple tests can be done at home. You just need to ask the child in a game form to perform several simple tests:
- Ask the child to twist the fingers “lock”. That hand is the lead, the thumb of which is on top.
- Ask the child to cross his arms over his chest. A hand lying on top is potentially leading.
- Ask for a clap. The lead is the hand that plays an active role.
- Give the child two pencils (in each hand), blindfold and ask to draw two circles. Leading hand will draw a more accurate circle.
- Let look in the viewfinder of the camera. The leading eye is the one with which the child will look through the hole.
- Ask to unscrew the cap from the water bottle. Most likely, he will make it a leading hand.
- Ask to cut a figure out of a sheet of paper with scissors. He will do this with his leading hand, however, a left-handed or right-handed child, it is more convenient to use the right hand with most scissors, so many left-handed people cut out with their right.
- Ask to sit down and throw one foot on the other. The lead leg in most cases will be on top.
You can come up with many similar tests !!!
Do retrain?
Using such simple tests, you can find out whether a right-handed or left-handed child is, but it is worth remembering that retraining is a difficult process for a child that can negatively affect its development. It is necessary to develop what is inherent in the child by nature, for example, to buy things for him in the store for left-handed people, notebooks, copybooks and pens for left-handed people. Then the child will be as comfortable as possible.
I think it's still worth retraining. Firstly, it will be more convenient for him, and secondly, things for right-handed people are not yet developed in the country.
This is exactly how they determined whether a left-handed person or a right-handed child!
It turned out that he was left-handed, but I also think that one should not retrain.
Everything is somehow complicated, I just watched with what hand the child reaches for the toy, tries to take a spoon, knocks with a toy (all children like to make noise). It’s just that it’s not always interesting for the child to do what is required of him (especially the smallest ones), and observation in the natural environment can give a more accurate answer to the information of interest. I think retraining is not worth it. I have an older left-hander, and the youngest right-hander and nothing, both live normally and the older one plays the violin well and infected the younger one - I had to take it to the violin (the younger ones always want to be cooler than the older ones).
And I think that it is not worth retraining the other way around. Correctly, the article says - maybe your child has a gift! He is unique! Parents, think three times before making a decision!
According to this article, it turns out that I am left-handed. But, never, even in childhood, it was not like that and no one retrained me ..
Retrained me when my grandmother noticed that she began to take toys in her left hand. Nothing bad happened. I watch how left-handed people write and think: it’s good that I was retrained.