Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Little Lefty?
Supposedly handedness develops between two and three years of age. Wyatt appears to be left handed. He has always eaten with his left hand as long as I can recall. He colors with that hand and it uses it for most of his "work" such as hammering and watering plants. He often uses the left foot to kick. I think this is really strange since no one in our families is left handed (at least that I know of). It will be interesting to see if he is really left handed, but it sure seems like he is. I regard left-handed folks as rather curious, so I will have to research whether this requires any special accommodation (other than lefty scissors). 
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I have always had an odd fascination with left-handed men--at least two boyfriends, a few crushes, and my husband were all lefties--so from my perspective, this development is very cool. My MIL says Mike showed signs of left-handedness from an early age, even before he was a year old.
My observation of lefties is that they often seem to be at least a little ambidextrous. Maybe that's because most things in our world are designed for righties.
P.S. You know that Wyatt's odds of being a big league baseball player, especially a pitcher, increase tremendously if he is a southpaw. ;-)
Wasn't Ross also a lefty before going to Kindergarten? I think Mom said I used my left hand also. I do know that me and my dad are both left-eye dominant-- usually hand dominance goes with eye dominance. It means that we shoot guns and bows-and-arrows and such like a left-handed person. I discovered this in summer camp when I was 11. I think my dad was also a Lefty-- turned to a Righty in school when he was younger. A little known fact: Our dad is an extremely talented artist! He NEVER uses it but, the few times I have seen him draw something, it was amazing and he does it effortlessly. I could never understand how someone could have so much talent and completely disregard it!!!
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