The left-handed child

When parents notice that their child eats, drinks, draws with his left hand, they begin to worry: the child is left-handed! This discovery is usually frustrating, because the kid is not like everyone else. They can be understood, because the child is left-handed people look like a curiosity. Often parents decide that the child needs to be retrained. But in reality, is it necessary? How to identify a child left-handed? And in general, what to do if the child is left-handed?

Why is the child left-handed?

The human brain consists of two hemispheres: the left, responsible for abstract thinking and speech, and the right, which focuses on creativity and imaginative thinking. Between the arms and hemispheres of the brain cross the nerve pathways, so when dominating the right hemisphere, the child better controls the left limb. Domination of a certain hemisphere affects the characteristics of the human psyche. Therefore among left-handers, the percentage of gifted people is so great: they are very musical, they know well the brush and clay. However, left-handers are very emotional, easily irritated, persistent.

Is the child left-handed or right handed?

In order to determine the dominant hemisphere from your crumb, parents should observe the child's hand in performing various actions. Keep in mind that left-handedness is finally formed at the age of 3-5 years. It was then, and not before parents should think about how to understand that the child is left-handed. So, there are several ways to determine the leading hand:

• ask the child to stamp his foot;
• observe how the comb is combed;
• give the little toy a toy that he took it;
• Give the child a few boxes to open them;
• observe what kind of hand the child is painting;
• Ask the child to wipe the table with a rag;
• ask the kid to lift the object from the floor;
• Give the baby a few bottles and ask them to unscrew the lids.

How do you know if the child is left-handed on the basis of these assignments? You just need to note which hand the kid is carrying out an active action, that is, wipes the table, unscrews the covers, opens the boxes, etc.

Learning that their child is left-handed, parents are wondering whether to re-educate him. Modern psychology opposes this, since retraining is like a kind of violence over the brain of a baby, who is dominated by the right brain from nature. Later, retrained children learn poorly, become angry and irritable.

If your child is left-handed

Realizing the fact that your baby levoruk, focus on this is not worth it. Others should not treat this feature as something unusual, so that the child does not have a low self-esteem. You can, on the contrary, tell the youngster about outstanding left-handers, about their achievements.

In no case should you scold the crumb, shout at him if he does not succeed. The left-handers are very sensitive and vulnerable, and from being rude can close in themselves.

It is necessary to encourage the infatuation of the child with music, painting or some other kind of creativity.

Parents should be prepared for the fact that the school of the child is waiting for complications with studies. The fact is that everything is focused on right-handers - and writing letters and numbers including. But how to teach the left-handed child to write? Prepare a child's hand from the preschool age: buy or make toys themselves for the development of fine motor skills. When the baby has already become a first-class, make sure that he holds the handle correctly, otherwise the hand will become tired. For convenience, you can purchase special office tools for lefties, and improve writing skills will help special recipe for left-handed people. When writing, the notebook should be placed at an inclination of 20 °. The writing of each letter should be shown in a slow trajectory.

In general, when the left-hander is in the family, the parents need patience and acceptance of the child as they are.