Monday's Question of the Day - December 28, 2015

I seem to be off schedule again this week.  It sure doesn't feel like a Monday!  We are still recovering from all the Christmas merriment.  The kids are still well occupied with new toys.    So I'm going with a simple question today!

Are you right handed, left handed or ambidextrous? 

I am right handed.  DH and DD are right handed also; but DS does everything with his left hand still.  A friend of mine said her DD did everything left handed up until about age 5 and then she suddenly switched to her right hand.  So I guess time will tell!  My Grandma and one cousin were lefties.  Hopefully I won't have trouble teaching DS to write if he does stay a lefty. When i was working on DD's doll quilt there were a few cuts with the rotary cutter that I tried to make with my left hand.  It was not easy!  It took some concentration! 

Right handed.

Still recovering from Christmas here too :lol3: Roll on 2016 and the return of 'normal' life...whatever that is... :disturb:

Right

The holidays have me messed up with my work schedule. On Friday (Christmas) I kept thinking it was Saturday. Saturday was Sunday and Sunday was whatever. It will be like that again this coming weekend, with days screwed up and me thinking I have to go to work when I don't. 

I'm a righty, but play cards like a lefty

I'm so glad to be off work this week.

Winchester said:

 
Right

The holidays have me messed up with my work schedule. On Friday (Christmas) I kept thinking it was Saturday. Saturday was Sunday and Sunday was whatever. It will be like that again this coming weekend, with days screwed up and me thinking I have to go to work when I don't. 

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I'm right handed too. 

It was like that for me, too. I was off Wednesday-Sunday last week. On Thursday, I thought it was Sunday and started getting stuff ready for Monday. I spent a lot of time confused (OK maybe just a little more than usual  ) I'm off Thursday - Sunday this week so bring on more confusion. 

Lefty

Righty

and I'm ready for the holidays to be over.

Right

I'm with Winchester now I know what the real date is lol 

Right

Right!

I'm not sure. I know that sounds stupid, but I think I'm supposed to be a lefty, and my parents switched me over as an infant. The brother closest to me in age is a lefty. I remember my parents complaining about it; he needed a special catcher's mitt, etc. Studies have been done that prove that parents don't even realize that they switch hands when their child picks up something left-handed.

I only write and use scissors (unless I use my lefty ones) right-handed. I can write and draw well left-handed, and will do so if a pen is near my left hand. I prefer to do everything else left-handed, and it feels more natural. My left hand and wrist are larger and stronger than my right ones. I can only open cans left-handed, which is awkward! Even when I do some things right-handed, I do them in the left-handed direction. No wonder I'm so accident-prone!

BTW, my lefty brother was the only one who could teach me how to do handedness-related things, such as tying my shoes.

@MargeCat  

I do believe you're describing being  ambidextrous!    Rare one of the Lucky ones

Everyone in my family is right-handed. . .forget about statistics :tongue2: My grandmother claimed she was supposed to be left-handed but her teachers punished and shamed her for it, and tied her left hand behind her back. I guess that kind of abusive behavior was considered OK back then :/.

My youngest brother writes like a lefty, with his hand curled around. I don't know why a righty would write like that---don't lefties do that to avoid smearing the ink? But I guess it works for him.

My mother was right handed and my father was left handed. My brother and sister and myself are all left handed. I write left handed so I consider myself left handed but I do a few things right handed like throw a ball, play tennis, iron etc.

I think most of the women in my family are right handed, me included, and most of the men are left handed. My brother, father and grand-father are/were all left handed.

right handed.

right-handed! though i do some things using my left hand.

Oh, I'm so left-handed that it's pitiful.  I'm putting off necessary surgery on my left wrist because I live alone, and I can't even get sugar in my coffee with my right hand. 

As for schedules...I'm one of those people who always knows where they are, but has trouble with when they are.  It's my natural state of being.

Willowy said:

Everyone in my family is right-handed. . .forget about statistics

My grandmother claimed she was supposed to be left-handed but her teachers punished and shamed her for it, and tied her left hand behind her back. I guess that kind of abusive behavior was considered OK back then :/.

My youngest brother writes like a lefty, with his hand curled around. I don't know why a righty would write like that---don't lefties do that to avoid smearing the ink? But I guess it works for him.

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MIL and I were talking about this a few months ago.  Apparently DH's older sister is left handed and her 4th grade teacher was having none of that.  MIL (who I would normally describe as a sweet southern belle) had to go in to the school and tell that teacher in no uncertain terms that she would NOT be penalizing SIL for her beautiful, neat and tidy left handed writing.     I don't know if I've ever heard WHY they used to try to force people to all write right handed.  I had a friend who held the pencil with all the tips of her fingers on it; almost in a claw shape.  Her printing was tiny and precise.  They had us all using grips and she hated every minute!  My 5 year old is learning with a grip because I've read it's easier to teach now than to correct with one later.  But it's not changing which hand she uses! 

Left-handed.

Absolutely unable to do anything right-handed except use the scissors (lefty scissors never cut anything)...

My uncle is a lefty. One of my nieces (unrelated to uncle). My step-mother, and my SIL... tee hee.

My grandma was right handed. She had a time trying to teach me to knit and sew--I can remember her sitting there, holding the needles, almost unable to figure out what she does, much less teach it to a lefty (she was like a machine).

I liked to pitch... never was good at catching though (bad depth perception).

And no one ever bugged me about being left-handed. But I wish I had tried (though can still try) to do some things right-handed--you never know.