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My oldest daughter is a little past two and a half. For a while now we've noticed that she she seemed rather uncoordinated and awkward while doing normal tasks like coloring. It's looking like she may be suffering from what is most commonly known as being "left handed". Please keep little Brookie Bear in your thoughts, and maybe say a little prayer that she won't be the kid in class that has to use the special green scissors.

My moms a lefty and a lot of guys I worked with. Hell I swing a bat and golf clubs lefty but to everything else right handed.

Don't be ashamed if ur lefty they are a special breed. Just buy her a pair of scissors only she can use

Buy her a softball for her birthday!
It would suck to be left handed and right eye dominant though...

Duckdog wrote:Buy her a softball for her birthday!
It would suck to be left handed and right eye dominant though...

In the youth hunter ed club I coach we have a couple of kids like that

Hahaha! I don't think our 3 year old has figured it out yet...she uses both off and on.

Berry sorry to hear. She's not a ginger also is she?

quackhead wrote:Berry sorry to hear. She's not a ginger also is she?

Oh, heavens no. Luckily, she's pretty enough that its possible no one will notice her handicap.

No hand-me-down guns for her. Get out the checkbook daddy.

It ain't that bad I write right handed and shoot a right handed shotgun left handed and shoot my bow left.i throw with my left and all in all I'm normal

bill herian wrote:No hand-me-down guns for her. Get out the checkbook daddy.

I wonder who I'd have to get in touch with to put on a "Guns for Kids" telethon.

hudson wrote:It ain't that bad I write right handed and shoot a right handed shotgun left handed and shoot my bow left.i throw with my left and all in all I'm normal

You call that normal? Tell me, how long did it take Dr. Xavier to teach you to use your mutant powers?

clampdaddy wrote:

bill herian wrote:No hand-me-down guns for her. Get out the checkbook daddy.

I wonder who I'd have to get in touch with to put on a "Guns for Kids" telethon.

In California, probably this lady...

clampdaddy wrote:

hudson wrote:It ain't that bad I write right handed and shoot a right handed shotgun left handed and shoot my bow left.i throw with my left and all in all I'm normal

You call that normal? Tell me, how long did it take Dr. Xavier to teach you to use your mutant powers?

hahahahaha just feels natural to me, idk I don't have problems.

clampdaddy wrote:

hudson wrote:It ain't that bad I write right handed and shoot a right handed shotgun left handed and shoot my bow left.i throw with my left and all in all I'm normal

You call that normal? Tell me, how long did it take Dr. Xavier to teach you to use your mutant powers?

I don't see anything abnormal about that. It's pretty common in my family.

My Dad shoots left handed, throws right hand, ... He would write with his left, but the nun's beat that out of him at an early age



A few years ago, I was looking for another bow for bowfishing. I asked my Dad if I could have his. He hasn't used it in probably 20 years. He said sure. About a week later, I called back and asked if it was left hand or right handed. He couldn't remember He went and looked. It was left handed, which doesn't work for me.

My youngest brother is mostly a lefty, but shoots right handed and various things like that.

Not a lefty, but my left hand is not useless like so many righties. My regular hunting partner, I was standing in the water at the top of my hip boots nailing some stuff on the boat hide. I put the first few nails in right handed, when I couldn't put any more in right handed, I just switched hands instead of trying to reposition without going over my boots, and continued with my left. He about freaked. He couldn't believe I could pound nails with both hands

Woody wrote:In California, probably this lady...

Nobody wants to see that shit. Damn near lost my breakfast.

There's no doubt that lefties usually become more ambidextrous than righties ever do, which is a good thing!
My left is practically useless, (even more so now!), but I sure wouldn't want to be cross dominant.

An old high school buddy of mine was left handed and right eye dominant and watching him shoot was just...weird.
I don't know if he was taught that way, or if it was just what worked for him being handed right handed guns as a kid, but
He would hold a shot gun like a lefty with his right hand forward, but bring the stock to his right shoulder!
I didn't even notice it for years, and then one day I noticed it and was like,..."WTF?"

Watching lefties run a worm drive skil saw looks really weird to me too.
When I used to coach baseball, teaching a kid to hit was really tough when they were cross dominant.

If it were me, and my kid, I'd check their eyes and work around them. Not saying to force a lefty to become right, but I'd sure try to make them ambi if they're gonna be cross dominant.

Duckdog wrote:There's no doubt that lefties usually become more ambidextrous than righties ever do, which is a good thing!
My left is practically useless, (even more so now!), but I sure wouldn't want to be cross dominant.

An old high school buddy of mine was left handed and right eye dominant and watching him shoot was just...weird.
I don't know if he was taught that way, or if it was just what worked for him being handed right handed guns as a kid, but
He would hold a shot gun like a lefty with his right hand forward, but bring the stock to his right shoulder!
I didn't even notice it for years, and then one day I noticed it and was like,..."WTF?"

Watching lefties run a worm drive skil saw looks really weird to me too.
When I used to coach baseball, teaching a kid to hit was really tough when they were cross dominant.

If it were me, and my kid, I'd check their eyes and work around them. Not saying to force a lefty to become right, but I'd sure try to make them ambi if they're gonna be cross dominant.

Honestly, I could care less if she ends up being left handed. Daddy will buy her as many left handed guns as she wants. Just trying to lighten the mood around here a little.

clampdaddy wrote:My oldest daughter is a little past two and a half. For a while now we've noticed that she she seemed rather uncoordinated and awkward while doing normal tasks like coloring. It's looking like she may be suffering from what is most commonly known as being "left handed". Please keep little Brookie Bear in your thoughts, and maybe say a little prayer that she won't be the kid in class that has to use the special green scissors.

Congratulations. Many of the most talented and intelligent people I've known are left-handed.

My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

I'm right handed but beat it with my left I'm totally ambidextrous

clampdaddy wrote:My oldest daughter is a little past two and a half. For a while now we've noticed that she she seemed rather uncoordinated and awkward while doing normal tasks like coloring. It's looking like she may be suffering from what is most commonly known as being "left handed". Please keep little Brookie Bear in your thoughts, and maybe say a little prayer that she won't be the kid in class that has to use the special green scissors.

Let me welcome her to the club.

I'm totally right handed except in basketball. Weird.

Pintail wrote:I'm totally right handed except in basketball. Weird.

I thought all basketball players were lefties.

clampdaddy wrote:

quackhead wrote:Berry sorry to hear. She's not a ginger also is she?

Oh, heavens no. Luckily, she's pretty enough that its possible no one will notice her handicap.

Damn that's bad LMAO .

assateague wrote:My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

Glimmerjim wrote: ...... I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid.....

Will Clark was the man.

clampdaddy wrote:

Glimmerjim wrote: ...... I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid.....

Will Clark was the man.

Probably my #1 baseball player, cd!

Glimmerjim wrote:

clampdaddy wrote:

Glimmerjim wrote: ...... I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid.....

Will Clark was the man.

Probably my #1 baseball player, cd!

Me too. A genuine old school, tobacco chewin', bad ass, ball player.

Hunted with us in the "waaaay back when he was a young buck" and wasn't afraid to get out of the blind to get shooting.

Glimmerjim wrote:

assateague wrote:My daughter used both until she was almost 5 (which I think is pretty common), but then switched to righty pretty quick. My father and my FIL are both leftys, so thought it might stick. Like Bank said, I was sort of hoping, because the most creative people I know are left-handed.

That's weird, isn't it? I would have to agree. They just seem to be more creative, artistic, free-thinking. I love the baseball swing of a good lefty like Sandoval or Will Clark. They are just so smooth and fluid. Odd thing. I have heard much about the left and right sides of the brain and their relative propensity to be strong in either artistic, creative endeavors or logical, mathematical ones. Puzzling. .......wait a minute....the left side of my brain said there was nothing puzzling about it.

I think at least a part of it, if true, was hinted at in Outlier.

Lefties are outsiders in a right-handed world. To compensate with being an outsider or the liberty that comes with it, however you want to look at it, they are statistically different.

It is also a good mental exercise to learn to do things opposite handed. In a right-handed world, lefties are all but forced to engage in this mental exercise and to do so at a young age. Try switching some routine thing. It makes the brain work, which is a good thing.

I would never describe the left handed members of my family as being more creative, artistic, free-thinking than the righties. It may simply be nothing more than when you observe a righty, you do not identify them as such. However, when you observe a lefty doing the same thing, you do identify them as such since it is different and unusual and it is nothing more than observation bias.