I am left handed and so is my son. My daughter is showing signs of also being left handed but it is a bit too early to tell yet if this will be the case.
I was the only left handed person in my family. At school, my teacher did not like the fact the I was left handed (the only one in my class) and she forced me to write with my right hand for about a week (until my mother intervened!). Even after that she would make me play right handed guitar. I remember it well and still really dislike her for it now!
I was never taught to write the "left handed way" where you twist your wrist around so you don't smudge your writing so as a consequence, it has been difficult teaching my son to do it!
I was the only left handed person in my family. At school, my teacher did not like the fact the I was left handed (the only one in my class) and she forced me to write with my right hand for about a week (until my mother intervened!). Even after that she would make me play right handed guitar. I remember it well and still really dislike her for it now!
I was never taught to write the "left handed way" where you twist your wrist around so you don't smudge your writing so as a consequence, it has been difficult teaching my son to do it!
). Handedness is a fun topic because it is still being studied. And fortunately, like you say, the assumption is that it's positive and left hand might = creativity. There have been some no-so-positive (totally untrue) things people used to assume about the traits of left-handers in history. Actually when my grandfather first discovered I was left handed he gasped in shame and admitted to me, in whispers, that the reason I was left handed was that he had passed on his 'deficiency' to my dad (who, like AmyH, was forced by teachers to learn to do everything right handed, only those teachers succeeded) and through my dad to me. My poor grandpa - not knowing how to respond I told him it was fine b/c I just type all my homework. That seemed to cheer him up!