I realised yesterday that we have a problem. I can't work out how to teach you how to use a pair of scissors. Like me you are left handed. You instinctively pick up the scissors in your left hand.
Like you, I grew up in what is predominantly a right handed world. So, I learnt to use a pair of scissors with my right hand. Just like I learnt to throw a ball with my right arm. I can't cut or throw with my left hand, although I have no doubt that my skill level in both areas would be stronger if I had been taught differently.
I can't get my head around how to get your little left handed fingers into the right (as in correct) place in a pair of scissors. I'm been wondering whether we should get you a pair of left handed scissors (yes, they exist) and maybe find an instructional video on You tube or whether I should just model the way I use them right handed and see what you decide to do.
There is no doubt that you will grow up learning to do some things with your left hand and other things with your right hand. I suspect that if I think about it the list of things I do right handed will be longer than I realise - and longer than it would be if the world was less discriminating. There, I've written it down. The world discriminates against left handed people. We are a minority group, but unlike race and sexual preferences we are a group with a physical difference that doesn't get any media attention or government funding!
Shot put! That's another thing I've just realised I was only ever taught to do right handed.
I wonder how you will be affected by your left handedness.
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