Help for Lefties

Hi,

My son is in kindergarten and I realized I'm teaching him to write, hold his pencil etc. the way a righty would. I'm sure there is an easier way for him. If you have any resources that you found helpful for your lefty, would you please share

thanks so much

 

I'm left handed and everything is just a mirror image of the way a righty would do it. Sit facing him to show him how. I've taught my right-handed daughters how to do these things and they've not had any problems, except when I try to put my hand over theirs to guide them, that is a problem, but they do fine now.

 

I have 2 lefties. I didn't really ever do anything different, but there are pencil grips that have proper finger placement for righties/lefties. The only struggle we had was with tying shoes, because I do it backwards from them. My dad's a lefty, so he covered that for me.

 

I have 1 lefty and he figured out how to hold a pencil by watching me...I assume it was the mirror image thing since I was always facing him.

 

I also work across the table from my lefty. So far so good.

 

I am left handed and taught Ems to write with out problems. She writes a lot better than I do too! LOL

 

One more comment from a lefty. There's no need for any difference in how you approach writing with a lefty except, as Fairfarmhand said, make it the mirror image.

 

thanks for your posts

will try sitting in front of him thank you all for your responses

 

As a lefty, I never even thought of doing anything different. I just let my kids do as they wished as far as holding a pencil went. I think the only issues may come up if your child decides to write with his arm hooked around the paper. I don't write that way, but my cousin does.

 

I have a lefty and we haven't really done anything different ( except when she writes on the white board she has to hold her hand funny so she doesn't erase what she writes)

 

I'm a lefty too. I even learned to crochet by sitting facing my right-handed "instructor". I learned to write at ages 4 and 5 by watching my parents and mirror-imaging what they did -- without really realizing that's what I was doing. Sometimes lefties have to turn their paper farther to the right than a righty turns theirs to the left, that's the only difference I've noted about my "style".