Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!bbnccv!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness Message-ID: <552@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 17:34:36 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.552 Posted: Wed Aug 14 17:34:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:46:33 EDT References: <1076@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 31 > A friend's preschooler always seemed to prefer using his left hand. So? A lot of people are left-handed. At one time, I was the only rightie in a 14-person software development group! My wife is left-handed, but her identical twin is right-handed... figure that one out! > His mother has been trying to change him into a right hander. Bad idea (see below)! Of course, objecting to it would be advocating "permissiveness", wouldn't it? > 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 school." He'll have a hell of a lot *more* problems when he goes to school if she insists on forcing him to switch hands! My grandparents did the same thing to my father 60 years ago, and to this day he has trouble telling his left from his right. (It almost cost all three of us our lives when he had to make a quick decision on which way he was supposed to turn while driving in an unfamiliar area and ended up going the wrong way on a divided highway.) > When he was a toddler, she refused to hand him any candy, toys, > or other objects until he finally reached with his right hand. Great! Treat your son like a rat in a Skinner box! Why doesn't she just ring a bell when it's time for him to eat, too? > Frank Silbermann Andrew W. Rogers