My Left-Handed Girls

 Madison and Bailee are both left-handed.  The girls have never complained about living in a right-handed world.  I've been thinking about it a little more lately and thought maybe I should give their left-handedness a bit more attention, for their convenience. :)

 

I discovered that International Left-Handers' Day is August 13th, which will be easy to remember because that is also my mom's birthday!

 

"The idea of Left-Handers' Day is of everyone to celebrate in fun, practical ways, making right handed family members/friends/colleagues realize how "dexterous" we have to be because we are constantly adapting a right-handed world to work for a left-hander. Getting right handers to do everything left-handed for the day is a great way to make the point!"

 

Ideas of things to do in the Kitchen

 

Fill & pour pitchers

Pour from milk/measuring cups/spoons

Open tin cans with a can opener

Peel vegetables/fruit

Use microwave (controls are often positioned on right of the equipment)

Using spatulas (angled ones go the wrong way for left hand use)

Cutting bread

Eating & drinking - reverse cutlery and have drink in left hand

Cutting - using right-handed scissors in left hand is an excellent example of totally right-biased design that doesn't work well.

Using scissors can be an activity for any room in the house.

Here are some fascinating facts I discovered on www.lefthandersday.com

  

Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.

Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing.

Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers.

4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed

1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.

 

Stuttering and dyslexia occur more often in left-handers (particularly if they are forced to change their writing hand as a child, like King of England George VI).