It is no secret that in the old days anyone with left arm was more active generally considered a "labeled devil", or mentally ill. That just does not do to wean kids to use his left hand - tied to her side, hurt banging on the fingers or lubricate them with bitters.
As a result of this manipulation of the child becomes overstrained, whiny, lost sleep, appetite, and that the worst thing, in fact, began to think of himself as some kind of abnormality.
Today, scientists have proved: to be left-handed - this is not a diagnosis, and certainly not a sentence! And, therefore, all those who continue to make fun of their children, trying to retrain them to hold a spoon or a pen in his right hand and not the left - stop immediately! Then what will people - left-handed or right-handed - a kind of genetic code, which is put into the womb. And this should not have to fight, and to treat once it is not necessary either.
Today it is known that people with more developed left hemisphere (right-handers) are more likely to think logically, the exact sciences, the generalization. People with more developed right hemisphere of the brain (our left-handed) - the more creative, more emotional. They have more developed imagination, respectively, and to approach the issue of training of the child should be more creative.
First of all, the little lefty to make sure that the world's right- he did not once. But at the same time to try to teach him to use those items designed for right-handers, as well as in the world of many designed specifically for right-handed. The same can opener, scissors and so on. D. Yes, there are items on sale, designed specifically for left-handers, but still it is better if the child can safely enjoy all devaysa without any problems.
Try the learning process a little left-hander More models and mock-ups. The left-hander more receptive to sensory level (tactile, smell, touch). Instead say, or write your child "2 + 2 = 4", give him a dice (spoons, crayons). Most use visual aids. Lefties are usually difficult to work in groups and for a limited time. Therefore give him a quiet space to work, let the time to think, do not rush.
I myself with my daughter (and I have it left-handed) with great pleasure drew her fingers, laid out on a bunch of all sorts of sticks. Thus, without insisting on training, daughter before entering kindergarten she knew the whole alphabet, well count to ten.
By the way, the left-hander's bad enough perceive a sequence of something. They did not immediately able to understand concepts such as "yesterday", "today", "previous", "next", and so on. It is sure to come, but a little later. In the garden, by the age of 5, my daughter is already five well-versed in this all. So do not worry about it, does not focus on this. The child will understand, more importantly, keep him engaged. Try to interest him, get sufficient motivation.
Would be great if you get a school teacher, work practice is a left-handed, as in teaching such children, there are many different nuances. Now pay attention to some, so to speak, the most obvious.
As we write from left to right, the slope of the notebook, font, lighting - all geared more to the right-handed people. In this case, the left-hander should sit so that it is not pushed into the working hand. The same applies to the landing passageway. For teaching children with a leading right-hemisphere is not suitable dry presentation of the material. They need more emotional colors in the story, critical situations. The same applies to the reading and understanding of the rules. The child will be more difficult to understand their meaning, while the literary text Remember there is no trouble. When reading the conditions of the problem, the left-hander will immediately take the overall picture, and then split into numerical values.
In addition, the left-handed first-grader may have problems with a score between 10 and 20. For him, it will be difficult to build in order of the numbers. The same problem can occur when memorizing months of the year. What should parents do in this case? Do not rush the child. He mastered in such terms, just a little later than righties. Nothing can be done, the left-hander is building its space slowly. Therefore, despite the school with your child, pay attention to your baby at home.
Keep in a playful way to learn numbers, numbers, days of the week, month. Let the kid mastered in spatio-temporal terms. There are many training manuals, which in a playful way to explain these concepts. Do not be lazy with your child to play such games. Try often to arrange with the baby image dictation: "3 cells down, the 4 cells right", and so on. Let you get as the final figure something interesting. The concepts of addition and subtraction are also associated with a spatial representation. Therefore, they are particularly subtraction, some lefties perform rather slowly, with your fingers.
Remember: Lefty can not be customized or rushed. First-year left-handed may stop before writing ordinary letters or numbers. No need to reproach him, or you will get the most deplorable (literally) the consequences. Do not compare the child with other left-handed, "This is Bob wrote, and you're not!" The child then will refuse to perform the task. Try to feed the material does not step through and describe the end result, and then divide into stages. This facilitates the forming of a logical chain of mastering this material and create a holistic picture of the assimilated. The left-hander will not be able to learn the material, do not understand the essence. He learns the topic in stages and strictly omission or misunderstanding of something leads to loss of the thread of reasoning.
Of course, a child with such features is difficult to adapt to the complex world of the school. Help him, explain the problem and work out a task together. And your child will understand.
Encourage your child to talk immediately about the problem or misunderstanding. Thus, you can avoid tangling and not waste time on trial and explanations from the outset. Well, if you teach a child to explain what he does not understand, or at least show strange place. By the way, here is an interesting feature of left-handers: in the classroom, when you want a quick solution to any problem in math, a southpaw meets often before anyone else. But the problem is that the child can not always explain the solutions to problems.
Help your child with an oral account. Improve the ability to calculate. Develop spatial thinking. Teach Lefty split common task into steps and allocate the correct procedure for its implementation.
And most importantly: in spite of the difficulties, in any case not be retrained to use it with the other hand! Retraining will entail the inhibition of higher mental functions. Despite the fact that the consequences of this step may occur not at once. And deal with it have to the child.
Imposed from the outside "pravshestvo" may be stronger, as was done during the period of retraining forming and motor functions are already proved woven into complex bonds formation between hemispheres. Therefore, parents have no right to act at their own risk. Despite all the arguments "for", you do not risk your health, and mental and physical health of the child!
From myself I want to say: if you do not be lazy to pay more attention to your baby and overcome difficulties together, you grow a great man, an educated and interesting conversationalist. For good reason the greatest minds and personalities of our history - it was the left-hander!
