Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!sed408 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 Lines: 35 > > 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" ########################################################################### # AT&T Bell Labs IH 1D-408 The Forest (home) # # Naperville-Wheaton Rd. 1353 Crab Apple Court Apt. 101 # # Naperville, Illinois 60566 Naperville, Illinois 60540 # # (312) 979 - 5545 (312) 355 - 0445 # ############################################################################