I’m going to hell.Alcohol and left handedness were evil.
My dad did try this with my oldest. I have never seen my oldest so mad at his grandpa. He was about 3 and coloring with his left hand. My dad put the crayon in his right hand several time. My son glared at his grandpa, made a big show of putting the crayon BACK in his left hand, and went back to coloring. I told my dad to give it up and just accept his grandson was left handed. He should be happy his namesake is right handed!!!!My Grandmother was always trying to get me and my brother to eat with our right hands. Thankfully my Mom corrected her and insisted we eat with whatever hand we wanted to. Hard to believe that used to be controversial.
The worst was the penmanship in 2'nd grade though. They'd let us write with our left hands, but we had to hold the pencil with it resting in the crook of your finger and thumb. OK, great for right-handers, but you can't see what you are writing and you smear the writing with your left hand. It took me forever and I missed many recesses because of those archaic rules. I do with they would still teach cursive writing but I am glad the penmanship days are over.
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I wish I had followed the lead of my right-handed daughter. Just to be different, she taught herself to flip the paper upside-down and write upside-down. That would have REALLY thrown my 2'nd grade teacher for a loop!
I do with they would still teach cursive writing
I’m going to hell.
So glad this was ignored when I came along in the 80s!!!!!
Interesting trivia, the definition of the word sinister includes: Sinister comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious”. I think that may be part of where the association of left handedness being bad or evil comes from.
Catholic schools in particular were infamous for a harsh insistence on writing with the right hand. There was even a particular style of cursive writing that was prevalent at Catholic schools from at least the 50s through the 70s in our area to the point that to this day it's possible to notice some who attended Catholic school simply by their handwriting.
Both my kids private pre-schools actually had kids try writing with both hands, no matter what had they instinctively went to and asked them which felt better to them. That was in the 1990's.By the time I attended the same school in the 1960's as my mother did in the 1930's, the practice had been abandoned, at least at that particular school.
It sure was there though when I was in a Catholic daycare center. Born in '88 and still in the very early '90s they were trying to convert left-handed kids to being right handed. That's actually why my mom removed me from that daycare as they would continuously call her telling her I kept putting the big crayon in the left hand and they would take it from me and put it in my right hand. She would tell them back that I was left handed and to let me do what I had been doing.So glad this was ignored when I came along in the 80s!!!!!
That really makes me think of my step-father-in-law. Now he's right handed and always has been but his cursive is slightly different and he has told us in the past how the nuns at the Catholic school he was at were extremely strict on handwriting lessons.Catholic schools in particular were infamous for a harsh insistence on writing with the right hand. There was even a particular style of cursive writing that was prevalent at Catholic schools from at least the 50s through the 70s in our area to the point that to this day it's possible to notice some who attended Catholic school simply by their handwriting.
we later learned that for a significant chunk of kids on the autism spectrum it's much easier to write in the continuous flowing manner of cursive vs the up and down/on and off the paper practice of printing. it's just the mechanics of how their brains work.