All you lefties...

[Julie Billingsley]

No advice La, but just wanted to pipe in and say that Logan is lefthanded too.

 

[lauren grier]

Thanks so much This thread has really helped-- at least reassuring me that he and I are doign everything "right". I've actually tried the playdough before (shawna suggested it after taking her kiddo to school oreintation)-- and connor just mashed it he wasn't interested at all LOL LOL.. I'll have to try some of those other ideas, he might like them better Thanks

PS I don't "tilt" his paper per say yet- because like you said, they're just big ole letters at this point- but I Do put it on his left- we sit side by side when we practice letters.

 

[lizzyfizzy]

i was just gonna say that a friend of mine has a lefty and she was told to have her dd tilt the paper like that. sounds like you all have this under control.

here's a useful looking linky too.

 

[mcardall]

we are having enough problems with learning to write letters same-handed, I can't even imagine the difficulty with trying to figure out the left-handed thing. hannah has always held her pencil correctly and my 15 month old has started coloring with colored pencils lately and she ALWAYS holds the pencil correctly. It's so cute to see such a tiny little person holding a pencil correctly! BUT Hannah is a righty, but can't STAND to have her paper tilted. It has to be directly in front of her exactly lined up. And that works best for her. Maybe just let your son move his paper wherever he wants it. And the backwards letters are very common. We have one of the markerboard books and my daughter loves it. We're only through D, though! It's a very slow and frustrating (for me!) process. I am thinking we are going to have some serious ADHD issues.