Does anyone know if childrens safety scissors can be used either way? Or are they specifically right handed or left handed??
My lefty has not been able to cut at all...he's been trying & trying to the point where I think he may want to give up from being discouraged...I'm starting to wonder if it's the scissors.
Where can I buy lefthanded scissors.
Help please.
My youngest is a lefty, at least for cutting and some other things. We had to go to a school supply store to get lefty safety scissors. Some are eaither, but can only be used in the hand that thet were cut with first, if that makes sense. We called around and found them at a school/teacher supply.
All 3 boys are lefties...wow!! I only have one, and he's preferred his left hand as soon as he could hold something. We'd purposely put something in his right hand, like a ball, and then he'd put it in his left hand and throw it.
Ok! I just searched pic on the web and I can clearly see the difference now...guess it just slipped my mind.
I will have to do that!
Thanks!
Most of the safety scissors can be used by either hand. I still can't cut a straight line with either kind, I do better with right handed scissors then left. 
My oldest is a leftie too and we buy him the kids scissors that say either and he does okay with them.
I'd say try lefthanded scissors if you think it will help but keep a pair of regular scissors on hand.
Remember everything is backward with a leftie, my husband doesn't like to use my plastic spatulas because the tip is always bent the wrong way for him, I scrap in the opposite direction of a right handed person.
not just my 3 boys but myself and my dh both my parents as well. we are a family full of lefties.
WOW!!!
I'm a lefty, my mom is a lefty, and my son *probably* will be. He's 3 and prefers his left hand. GO LEFTIES!
Any problems for the kids' doctors? I had a pediatrician - well respected one at that - who told me me to "encourage" my kids to be righties. I was FURIOUS to say the least. Last time we saw her, that was for sure!
Any problems for the kids' doctors? I had a pediatrician - well respected one at that - who told me me to "encourage" my kids to be righties. I was FURIOUS to say the least. Last time we saw her, that was for sure!
A doctor told you this? 
When did the dr have the training? the 1890's?
I know that years ago they tried to make kids use the other hand but that was forever ago.
That was my thought. I remember when I was little, teachers wanted my mom to make me switch, or write upside down.
I simply could NOT believe that this doctor had told me this. I surely had thought that no one, and I mean NO ONE thought like this anymore. But it wasn't the only problem I had with their whole ped practice, so I am SOOO glad we don't take the kids there anymore.
I'm still baffled...I chalk it up to "she's an idiot". 
I'm a lefty too 
Both my kids (7 & 4) had spurts of left-handedness because they both broke their right arms when they were 3. My daughter is very right handed now, and my son usually is. He'll still eat with his left hand sometimes, mostly writes with his right hand, and cuts with both. I have the sissors that are "either" and he has never had a problem.
My husband is teaching them to bat left-handed because it gives an advantage to the batter in baseball. 
-Lisa
I am right handed, but my mother is left. So I do so much left handed, like iron - the ironing board was always set up left handed. My granddaughter is left handed. She had been trying to learn to bat and couldn't hit the ball. I was pitching to her and stopped and said, "Who told you to hold the bat like that?" Well, her grandfather on the other side had. I told her to try left handed, since she is left handed and she's been hitting the ball ever since! Maybe by the time she's grown, they'll let girls be in MLB.
I have a lefty. He too struggles with cutting. His problem that he is ambidextrous (uses both hands almost equally). You can visibly see his hands fighting for dominance when he is cutting. If I hold the paper for him and allow him to cut with his left hand he can do it right. But if he has to use his right hand to hold the paper things get weird.
Go lefties!!!!
I got some scissors that are for either..I just picked them up at the dollar store...just wanted to see if they made a difference. They did! His paper that he brought home from preschool, well.....anyway, we drew the same lines for him to cut on another piece of paper with the *new* scissors and he did it just fine.
So........I have another question for you lefties....does it seem to take a child longer to write or write better being left handed? My 4 yo doesn't do well at all. He can shape the letters but they're way off.
So........I have another question for you lefties....does it seem to take a child longer to write or write better being left handed? My 4 yo doesn't do well at all. He can shape the letters but they're way off.
Lefties are known for bad handwriting. I have very neat handwriting, so neat that at least one elementary teacher I had didn't notice for quite a while. Boys are known to be far worse than girls. Part of it may be the way many hold their hands while they write, teachers and parents often help them write something and hold their hands funny teaching them to do it. Have him hold his paper at the opposite angle that a right handed person does, that will help. My 2nd grader is finally getting okay handwriting.
My dh is a leftie, my youngest son, my daughter... only me and my oldest are righties
My dad is a leftie, one of my brothers is, my sister is... only one brother, my mom and I were righties....
My son is in 3rd grade. When he was in kindergarden, his teacher always put his scissors in his right hand, I got so mad.... now he does everything with the left hand, except cutting. I was so glad when she got into retirement....
My dd was writing "mirror" like until she got to school. She was writing from right to left and really "mirror" to read her words you had to look at the behind of the paper or in front of a mirror. and afterwards, until she was in 1st grade, she was writing her name (Arianne) with one N right and the other N backwards. But she's not only a leftie she's dyslexic also. The specialist said it was the combination of those two that made her write that way. Just wanted to share...
So........I have another question for you lefties....does it seem to take a child longer to write or write better being left handed? My 4 yo doesn't do well at all. He can shape the letters but they're way off.
I don't think there's any difference with left vs. right handed there...not that I'm biased or anything 
I think it's more of a boy-girl thing. Boys generally take longer to develop their fine motor skills when compared to the girls. My 4 year old son is definitely not as "advanced" (for lack of a better word) as my daughter when I compare his writing to hers at that age. But he is normal for his age when compared to his classmates - and there is a wide range of "normal." I also think it depends on how much he writes/draws at home. My daughter was always drawing, coloring, etc., but my son is not as into that as she was/is. Like anything, the more he does it, the better he'll get, but he'll get there eventually!
-Lisa
All five of my children are lefties! My husband used to be, but this teachers used to tie his left hand to his pants to make him use his right hand and his handwriting is hiddious. My children have good handwriting, but I put a crayon in their hands as soon as they could sit up in a high chair. They are all also very artistic.
All five of my children are lefties! My husband used to be, but this teachers used to tie his left hand to his pants to make him use his right hand and his handwriting is hiddious. My children have good handwriting, but I put a crayon in their hands as soon as they could sit up in a high chair. They are all also very artistic.
OMG!!! Tied his hand to his pants?!?!?! 
I remember my mother whose 51 talking about when she went to school and they always tried to make righties out of lefties. I don't know why teachers used to do this, but I'm glad they stopped!!!!
I put crayons in their hands all of the time!!!! My lefty loves to color, etc. but his handwriting, well...I've actually seen an improvement in it since Grandma has been helping him, lol!
My 6yr old daughter was alway ambidexterous up till 1 1/2 yrs ago. Now she a dominate lefty except she holds pencils, crayons etc. like a righty.
You know how lefty's hold writing utencils kind of cocked, she doesn't. Odd child she is. She does just fine with the universal scissors too.
My 6yr old daughter was alway ambidexterous up till 1 1/2 yrs ago. Now she a dominate lefty except she holds pencils, crayons etc. like a righty.
You know how lefty's hold writing utencils kind of cocked, she doesn't. Odd child she is. She does just fine with the universal scissors too.
That means she's holding it properly, the way lefties often hold pens is wrong and should be discouraged. I have always held my writing utensils properly and have good handwriting while my brother holds his the wrong way and has horrid handwriting.
Interesting note about how lefties see the world, my kitchen is set up differently than a right handed person would have it. I know this because my MIL constantly harps on it but kitchens set up by right handed people don't have the right flow for me, I wouldn't have noticed if she hadn't been complaining about it all the time.
I am a lefty and writing for me was very hard at first....
What does every kid need in school to write with, paper, mostly a spiral notebook, and most classes want you to have a 3 ring binder. these are a lefty's worst enemies.
spiral notebooks are the worst, you have to start way over to the right in order to fit your hand on the paper.
Then when you finally get comfy, you end up with ink all over your hand from sitting it ontop of everything you just wrote. (unless your write upside down like me)
then there is the 3 ring, you have to pretty much start at the other end of the page if you want to keep the paper inside.....
oh and I almost forgot those Blessed desks, everything in school was backward for me, lefties always seemed to be few and far inbetween.
BUT I WOULDNT TRADE IT FOR THE WORLD!! AT LEAST WE HAVE LEFT HANDED SMILEYS 
Well, I'm a lefty too, have good handwriting, but hold my paper practically sideways to do so. I have always tried to find the most practical/easiest way to do things...and this way my wrist isn't all messed up. I learned to crochet from my mom (righty), and to play guitar (not easy when tab. writing is upside-down!) My right hand is just to keep my watch on....and to make me look symmetrical, and turn the cake turntable!!!
With the notebooks, I have always just used mine upside-down, or gotten the ones with the spiral at the top! Loved those, especially in college.
My daughter (6) is a dominant lefty in everything, but because she hadn't "picked a hand" for writing in school, they just picked her right. 
Occupational Therapists picked her non-dominant side! I was furious. She eats, throws, picks stuff up...everything is left. Now, her writing with her right hand is not too great. And, She holds the pencil really wierd, all 4 of her fingers are on the pencil, not only the "pinching" fingers. So, she holds the pencil backhand sort of. We are trying to have her use her left too (she is only 6), but she keeps switching back to her right. 
I was hoping for 1 out of 3 to be a lefty! But, she is lefty at everything else. So, who's to say.
And, for the record, I really do everything left-handed EXCEPT use sissors! In kindergarden, we only had righty! Now, I can't make those darned lefty sissors work for anything!
Well, I'm a lefty too, have good handwriting, but hold my paper practically sideways to do so.
Holding the paper at the correct angle definatly seems to help. I think that's part of why my son suddenly improved his handwriting, because the teachers this year impressed on him the correct way to hold the paper.
The one thing I just can't use my left hand for is the mouse, my older brother threw a fit about me moving it for some reason 
and I just got used to using it with my right hand. I think my son is going to be like this too because he's never tried to move the mouse or use it with the other hand.
my son is left-handed & it was a challenge to help him learn to print, but i did. then he was VERY LUCKY, he started K-4 (like preschool) & his teacher was left-handed, she taught him he's cursive perfectly--he has beautiful cursive, now that print--haha--no he really does a beauitful job
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