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Dmod:
My 4 1/2 year old son still switches back and forth.  When writing and eating he mostly favors his left hand, but he throws better with his right.  We've got him playing tee-ball now as a righty.

My daughter was a righty from the start.

Loki:

--- Quote from: Dmod on April 28, 2007, 02:40:09 am ---My 4 1/2 year old son still switches back and forth.  When writing and eating he mostly favors his left hand, but he throws better with his right.  We've got him playing tee-ball now as a righty.

My daughter was a righty from the start.

--- End quote ---

I am like that too... left handed with writing, soldering and other precision work but the rest I do right handed.  Not sure if I should call my self left or right handed ^^;

shardian:
I am mostly right handed. I can bat either way in baseball. I have a dominant left hand when dribbling a basketball, but shoot with my right. Back in the day, I played hockey left handed. My left leg is far more dominant than my right. When eating, I use my right for the fork, but have to use my left for the knife.

bfauska:
Interesting subject,  some of it makes me wonder how much is trained.  I know that there is probably a dominant hand from birth, but even in the little things, as parents people are constantly training the kid.  When you first give a kid a piece of silverware (hopefully rubber coated) you hand it to them and/or show them how to use it.  Teaching to throw, color, draw, it seems like at some point most parents must put the item in their child's hands, does this start to train them? Obviously when it comes to things like sports where the thing being taught is more complex then the parent may do some serious molding of their child's preference.

On a related topic which probably doesn't apply much, in some activities your dominant EYE is as important or more important than your dominant hand.  I am right handed with anything that requires precision (although I try as a challenge to do many things lefty since both hands are important when you build with any precision for a living.)  That being said, I have always shot a firearm lefty because my left eye is dominant for aiming purposes, it mostly applies to rifles, which can be miserable with a semi-auto rifle that ejects shells out the right.

Hopefully I'll get back to you in a few years about a kid of my own, I'll let you know.

jbox:
This is why you should teach them to use the anti-gravity chopsticks with both hands...

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