Do you have a left-handed child at home? The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 4.5 percent of the world’s citizens are left-handed. Neurologists consider this figure to be much higher (about 30 percent). Whatever the percentage, righties captivate the majority.
Neurologists claim that the dominance of one hand over the other is due in large part to genes and, in part, to the environment in which children grow up. Since the right hemisphere of the brain directs movements on the opposite side of the body and vice versa, in left-handed people the dominant side is the right hemisphere.
And although each of them has different functions (the left is usually in charge of processing logical and numerical information, while the right is more focused on emotions and feelings); The latest studies reveal that in left-handers these functions are more distributed.
In this sense, being right-handed or left-handed is not a coincidence or a whim; it is the consequence of a maturation process of the nervous system. Therefore, the fact that your little one is not an abnormality; the right cerebral hemisphere governs the left body movements and the left hemisphere governs those of the right side, this being due to hereditary genetic issues or fetal position in the uterus, without this having to do with any advantage or disadvantage of the IQ, as well as Nor with the ingrained idea of falsely believing that a child learns to use the right or left hand according to the instruction received at home or at school.
An idea that precisely brings children various difficulties that start from the time they get up in the morning: the clocks go from right to left, the car lever is located on their right … They live in a world of right-handed people.
Possible usual difficulties you face:
❖ The traditional and erroneous attitude of considering the left as something negative, in a hostile and prejudiced environment.
❖ Adapt to a world created for right-handers.
❖ Play a musical instrument such as the guitar.
❖ Something as simple and habitual as the handling of utensils or work tools in daily or professional life, such as the can opener, table cutlery… is a real problem for a left-handed person.
❖ The daily hand salute must be done with the right hand.
How to survive in a different world?
It is essential that you are aware that you will have to face and adapt to your environment; Forget about buying special scissors or desks for left-handers, as this will not change or lighten your preference or the world around you. This attitude, far from benefiting him, in the long run hurts him since it limits his ability to adapt to the natural functionality of society, which is made for right-handed people.