Claire has made her decision.

[velvetpage]

I'm sure it's been around for a few weeks, but today was the first chance I had to really test it.

I gave her a pencil, and put it in her left hand. She made a few scribbles, then switched to her right hand, smiled, and started to "write."

So two left-handed parents have produced two right-handed daughters. I'm a little disappointed about this, I think. But it's her brain telling her what to do, and it's hard to argue with genetics.

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[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

My parents are both right-handed; Piet's mom should have been left-handed but it was also taught out. Other than that, everyone is right-handed except for me and Piet.

[girlydoll.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many left handed people are out there that don't know they are left handed. My mother said it was very common to have it taught out in school, I mean if parents started pushing it on their kids from the get go, who knows, right? (or left as the case may be, but it really was not an intended pun.. LOL)

I don't really get the reasoning for the schools to try to eradicate it, but I guess they had their reasons. Trying to think back in my family line, no one older than my mother was left handed, so I wonder how far back the teaching out goes!