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Superthread LXVI: Honouring Whinging Dragons Fans

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muzby

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I think my daughter is left handed. Have thought so for nearly three or four months now.

Any parents out there care to let me know how early you can 'tell' what hand they use? Or is her preference for using her left hand just coincidence right now?


grab yourself a bucket of tennis balls and start pegging them at her..

she'll start to favour one hand to defend herself from the attack of the bright yellow balls, which should give you some indication..

then you'll know for sure when she starts throwing the balls back at you in anger.. (yep, you're even fast tracking her gross motor skills)

and the best part about it, if you do it young enough, they'll never remember you did it..

of course i'm kidding!!!!
 
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Drew-Sta

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too early

maybe she is ambidextrous

no biggy though

Not upset if she is, but thought it might be too early to tell.

Ampidextrous would be cool.

Only reason I think she might be is I technically am, but my mum 'trained' me to be right handed instead.

grab yourself a bucket of tennis balls and start pegging them at her..

she'll start to favour one hand to defend herself from the attack of the bright yellow balls, which should give you some indication..

then you'll know for sure when she starts throwing the balls back at you in anger.. (yep, you're even fast tracking her gross motor skills)

and the best part about it, if you do it young enough, they'll never remember you did it..

of course i'm kidding!!!!

:lol:
 

madunit

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I think my daughter is left handed. Have thought so for nearly three or four months now.

Any parents out there care to let me know how early you can 'tell' what hand they use? Or is her preference for using her left hand just coincidence right now?

throw a golf ball at her and see which hand she catches it with.

Although this method isn't fool proof.

They do this training with the test cricket side and they still can't tell if Hughes is left handed or right handed.
 

madunit

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grab yourself a bucket of tennis balls and start pegging them at her..

she'll start to favour one hand to defend herself from the attack of the bright yellow balls, which should give you some indication..

then you'll know for sure when she starts throwing the balls back at you in anger.. (yep, you're even fast tracking her gross motor skills)

and the best part about it, if you do it young enough, they'll never remember you did it..

of course i'm kidding!!!!

However instead of throwing tennis balls, i'd use a driver and hit golf balls at them, purely because they'd stand a better chance of catching the golf balls as they are smaller.
 

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There are benefits to being left handed. It opens up whole new areas of the brain.

"training" kids to be right handed is unnecessary and archaic.
 

Drew-Sta

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There are benefits to being left handed. It opens up whole new areas of the brain.

"training" kids to be right handed is unnecessary and archaic.

I know training kids to be right handed is unnecessary and archaic; I was referring to what my mother did to me.

I'm curious to know how early you can tell so I don't inadvertantenly 'preference' one which ends up being the wrong one.

As a cricketer, left handers should be banned.

Its so frustrating in the field when you have a left and right handed batting pair...
 

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I loved bowling to lefties. I bowled fast late inswingers to righties. Lefties couldn't play me. f**king loved it
 
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