<p>My husband and I are both left-handed. All three of our children are right-handed. It did make for confusion when trying to teach them certain skills early on, such as how to tie their shoes, and handwriting. Their handwriting is much neater than our left-handed scrawl.</p>
<p>My h and I are also both lefties. We have one of each. Unfortunately, even the rightie seems to have acquired our handwriting abilities.</p>
<p>I picked schoolmarm because my S/D would be horrified at my lurking, much less posting, on CC, so I didn’t want any name that would identify me. This was the first school-related name that came to mind. When I think of a schoolmarm, I think of a very matronly older woman with gray hair pinned up in a bun. I like to think that I don’t fit that image, though the only thing I know for sure is that my hair isn’t gray (thanks to the hair care products industry!) and I don’t wear it in a bun.</p>
<p>I LOVE Righthoofofmare! I lived for many years in the west, and now for many years east of New York City. I still don’t quite believe that anything (not submerged) could be east of New York City. I have to really concentrate when I see highway signs that saw “New York City - westbound”. It’s an existential moment for me, and you really don’t want too many of those when you’re behind the wheel having to make a snap decision. After all these years, it shouldn’t be so ‘snap’ but it seems like a fresh choice each time I’m faced with it. I attribute it to left handedness. Did anyone read the article recently about the rates of lefthandedness being highest in societies with high homicide rates? Something about the same kind of advantage lefties have in baseball, except there we can defend better against attack.</p>
<p>read most of the posts and have all new images in my head, some I knew and some I was really off on</p>
<p>Mine is simple:</p>
<p>Kat (that’s me, a man-eating lion big and ferocious at 5 feet tall!!!)
wkittens
kittens (all my adorable little frolicking kiddos)</p>
<p>(shhhhhhhhh, I am in denial about them being big burly offensive linemen andsomewhere over the 6 foot +, 300+ range) with NO mittens</p>
<p>and yes they constantly misplace their gloves, cleats, mouthpieces, wallets, pads, girdles, their heads if they weren’t screwed on!</p>
<p>We lefties are pretty sinister at times …</p>
<p>Kat - your kits may be big but you’re still the mommy!</p>
<p>Hmm. Our household has two right-handed and one underhanded.</p>
<p>Bet I know which is which!</p>
<p>Someone posted a comment a while ago (at least it seems like a while ago) about wondering what others looked like. Myself, I haven’t done that simply because I knew that whatever picture I would concoct would likely be 180 degrees divorced from reality. So I haven’t tried to picture anyone - until last week, that is.</p>
<p>Jamimom, I had always figured that you were the mother of a kid named Jamie, but last week I read that Jamie or some such variation is (or is part of) your own name. Well, that really threw me. I had read about the many kids you have, plus nieces and nephews, plus the kids that you have assisted in getting into college. The problem is that the only image I can associate with the name Jamie is Jamie Lee Curtis (not that I know her personally, you understand). So while I can picture Jamie Lee Curtis dealing with a passel of kids and the like, and being a straight-speaking person such as yourself, I hit a block when I try to picture her being a college counselor.</p>
<p>Probably I should revert to my habit of not trying to form pictures of posters.</p>
<p>garland-
Another leftie here. And without boring you with seriously off-topic stuff, the cliffnotes version is that biological/genetic lefties are usually right hemisphere dominant, and the right hemisphere handles the visual/spatial skills.So, most lefties should have decent visuospatial skills There’s also a theory about “hookers” (lefties who hook their wrists over the top and write pointing downward) vs “non-hookers” (lefties who write with theire wrists below their hand and write pointing upward). If you have any desire to know any more about this hemispheric laterality stuff, feel free to pm me. I am sure the members of CC have no interest in my dissertation topic. :)</p>
<p>I do! I do! I once read that the left handed child of a left hander (describes both me and daughter) might be organized differently - this is from Betty Edwards’ book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Will pm when I have time and can figure out what that is.</p>
<p>lefthand-
You must have too much free time on your hands (no pun intended). I am trying to look up my dissertation on the Library of Congress’s website so you can immerse yourself in it, but no luck yet. Oh, and pm is private message, not the hours between noon and midnight :)</p>
<p>OhioMom: do you now?</p>
<p>ok, back to the topic :)</p>
<p>“Pair Muhreeh” :D</p>
<p>momnipotent is my nickname around the house- tongue in cheek of course! I am a new poster- this thread is a good escape from some of the more intense reading on CC.</p>
<p>To me cangel meant “California Angel”. Marite was ma-REET, like a French version of Marit (a Scandinavian name).</p>
<p>This Year’s Girl is a song by Elvis Costello. Not at all original, I’m afraid!</p>