Left-handed children: the world from the mirror
It is estimated that 13% of people are left-handed, that is, they use their left hand to do things. This would not have to be a disadvantage, the list of lefties Celebrities is long and distinguished, if it were not for the fact that the world is designed and designed for right-handers.
Although nobody obliges the lefties to write with the right hand, there are still schools that are not prepared for left-handed children, so it is important to consider several strategies to help parents and teachers avoid problems that may occur with left-handed children.
Left-handed children: complications at home
At home, there are two things that are especially complicated for left-handed children: learn to cut meat and learn to tie your shoes. They find it very difficult to follow the instructions of a right-hander, they must learn to do it the other way around. Ideally, look for a left-handed person to teach them.
At the table, you have to sit the left-handed child in the left corner, if not when cutting the meat will be elbowed with his brothers. The same applies to any activity that takes place around a table.
Card games are complicated for left-handed children because the clubs and numbers are covered.
Left-handers: more accidents in the domestic environment
In the domestic sphere, there are other things that are difficult for left-handers because the tools are made for right-handed people. Try to open a can with your left hand, for example, to realize that it is impossible. That's why there are can openers for left-handed people, left-handed knives, measuring tapes for left-handed people, etc.
If you are left-handed, the cameras have the wrong side view.
Some left-handers put the strings of their guitar upside down, like Paul McCarthy, to be able to tear with the left and mark the chords with the right.
There are statistics that show that left-handers have more accidents than right-handers. But it is not that they are more clumsy but that they have to work in a world that is designed backwards.
Lefties famous for their skills
But not all are disadvantages. In many sports being left-handed is an advantage. Rafa Nadal writes with the right but plays tennis with the left. Maradona, Cruyff and Hugo Sánchez, were left-handed.
In addition, left-handers tend to have more developed right hemisphere, which is what controls creativity, spatial skills and aesthetics. A long list of scientists, inventors and left-handed artists seem to endorse this data: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin.
Likewise, in advanced mathematics programs there is a greater percentage of left-handed people than in the general population. Einstein was left-handed. So were Reagan, George W. Bush, Clinton and Obama, so lefties excel in several areas.
Nita Aspiazu
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