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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s not something I paid much attention to until others started to point it out to me ALL. THE. TIME. \u00a0I still don’t see much of an issue with it, but I guess it does complicate her life just a touch more than a right-handed person. \u00a0A touch.<\/p>\n
The really cool thing about being left-handed is that, according to an article I read, “the right hemisphere of the brain controls left-handedness, and therefore, lefties do seem to have an advantage in right hemisphere functions such as visual concepts, creativity, art, music, and sports requiring good spatial judgment and rapid reactions”.<\/p>\n
Apparently, only 13 percent of people are left handed, so lefties just have to learn to function in a right-handed world. They need to do most tasks back-to-front, with equipment that wasn\u2019t designed for them. \u00a0The result: they learn to adapt ,which can pay off in spades later in life when it comes to problem solving.<\/p>\n
My brother is left-handed and I watched him struggle to use ‘normal’ scissors or to not smudge his writing when using pencil (or certain wet ink pens) or to have to make sure he had his own hockey stick when we played in the streets…but really, it didn’t seem all that bad. He just adapted. \u00a0And Jaia will too.<\/p>\n
Some facts:<\/p>\n
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- 75 percent of left-handers have two right-handed parents<\/li>\n
- Four of the last five US presidents are left-handed<\/li>\n
- Left-handers need to do most tasks back-to-front, with equipment that wasn\u2019t made for them.<\/li>\n
- Most children show a preference for their right or left hand by age three.<\/li>\n
- Teaching proper left-handed writing technique from an early age is essential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So there we go. \u00a0A wee challenge as Jaia begins to write and use scissors. \u00a0But also a cool advantage in the creativity department. \u00a0The next guitar great or world famous artist? \u00a0You just never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barack Obama is left-handed. \u00a0 Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. \u00a0M.C. Escher was left-handed. \u00a0Matt Groening is left-handed. \u00a0Queen Victoria was left-handed. \u00a0Jimi Hendrix was left-handed. And so is Jaia. \u00a0Not a bad crew to be hanging with though. \u00a0What’s more, a large percentage of history’s creative geniuses were\/are left-handed. \u00a0Go Jaia! It’s not something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}