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From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness
Message-ID: <1076@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 13:51:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1076
Posted: Tue Aug 13 13:51:53 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 14:26:25 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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> 
> A friend's preschooler always seemed to prefer using his left hand.
> His mother has been trying to change him into a right hander.
> She bought him a toy baseball glove for right handers, and when she
> takes out the coloring books, she instructs him to use his right hand
> "so he'll have fewer problems when he goes to schood."
> When he was a toddler, she refused to hand him any candy, toys,
> or other objects until he finally reached with his right hand.
> 
> 
> 	Frank Silbermann

My God!  I thought that sort of thing went out long ago.  I know that long ago
(the Victorian Era) left handedness was considered evil.  (The French word for
left comes from the same Latin root that we get the word sinister).  Children
used to be forced to use their right hands.  I have heard that this is quite
detremental.  I think it's terrible to punish a child for trying do something
the way his body is telling him to.  I think it would do a lot more harm than
good to force a child to be right-handed when his natural inclination is
toward left-handedness.  What's so wrong with being left-handed?  Some of my
best friends are left-handed.  They don't seem to have any problems with it.



-- 

Sarah E. Dugan
"One Day At A Time"

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