Three-year-old shows left-hand preference while learning to write and draw. Parents accept the preference, provide left-handed tools, and will accommodate smudgy pencils. Grandmother repeatedly forces the child to use the right hand, scolding and physically moving the marker, despite parental requests to stop. The child becomes distressed when compelled to use the nonpreferred hand. Older generations often corrected left-handedness, and caregivers may replicate those habits, possibly because their own handedness was corrected. Parents should set clear boundaries, insist caregivers respect the child's natural hand use, and protect the child from coercive correction.
My 3-year-old daughter is (obviously) still learning how to write and draw. She switches hands but has clearly shown partiality toward her left hand. While that's a surprise, since no one in either of our immediate families is left-handed, her dad and I don't care. We'll get her the left-handed scissors and help her erase smudgy pencil homework. The issue is my mother, who frequently watches her after school.
She has taken it upon herself to correct the hand my daughter uses, scolding her and even moving the marker from the left to the right. Every time we witness it, we tell her to knock it off, but it hasn't stopped yet. I know correcting left-handedness was common in my mother's generation, but it's getting out of hand. My daughter burst into tears when I helped her draw a heart with her right hand recentlyshe just so happened to be holding the pencil in
This is unacceptable. It sounds like you've told her to stop on numerous occasions already, and she is clearly deeply entrenched in the bad practices of the past. In fact, it's entirely possible that she herself was a lefty; plenty of people think no one in our immediate families is left-handed because it was beaten out two generations back. That wouldn't excuse her ignoring your wishes. I'm not a magician, and neither are you. Your mother will not get to watch y
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