Kids

[oldandslow]

 I have a 10 year old great grand daughter that is seriously into bug collecting and today she was with us. She took some notebook paper, a pair of scissors, and glue and built what she called a bug box. She decided that it needed a little help besides glue to hold it together and asked if I had some tape. I told her that I had some masking tape in the garage so away we went to reinforce her bug box. After we finished we went back in house and I went on about my business. My wife told me after they left that she asked her what kind of tape we used and she told her "Mexican tape". My wife told her it was masking tape. She replied that grandpa told her it was Mexican tape and walked off.  I'm going to have speak more clearly apparently.

I believe this child is truly ambidextrous. She uses her left hand to eat, write, and for about everything but when she shoots her little Crickett rifle or my SR22 pistol she shoots right handed and also used the scissors to cut the tape right handed. The last cut she made it was easier to use the scissors left handed and she tried and quickly learned why regular scissors don't work well for lefty's and changed hands. After she was done I showed her why regular scissors have to be used right handed and also showed her how to go ahead and use them left handed. I have also seen her write and draw right handed too.

[BUGEYE]

I'm left handed and I hate scissors.
I'd rather use duct tape than "mexican" tape, when it gets old it don't come off the roll right.

[Bob Riebe]

They make left handed scissors;   I found out when I went fabric shops with the other half, you get what you pay for in scissors, while lower priced but far, far from cheap  models are still a lsrge degree better than big box store scissors.

[gene_225]

They make left handed scissors;   I found out when I went fabric shops with the other half, you get what you pay for in scissors, while lower priced but far, far from cheap  models are still a lsrge degree better than big box store scissors.

Yes they do. My dad was ambidextrous so he had left handed scissors, which he gave my daughter just before he died. She is a south paw and loves them. I had never known that they make left handed scissors till then.

[Ranger99]

Left handed anything wasn't
as widely available when I was
young as they are now.
I finally learned to shoot guns
and bows righty.
It was either that or do without 

[ironglow]

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    Full ambidextrous can be a gift. My late sister was ambidextrous.  Among other things, she was an artist in oils, at which she was ambidextrous.
  She was great to watch work at things...if the left didn't work well for a given task..use the right. Didn't matter what the task.
     On the other hand, I have one brother who is as solid left as I am right, and he knows very well, the world set up for right handed people.  He does fine in spite of it though.

[oldandslow]

I know about left handed scissors but until this kid no one here has had need of any. Now she knows how to make do with regular scissors if needing to use them left handed. I started life as a lefty but the sudden stop after falling out of a tree put a stop to that. Our daughter was a lefty but that was when society was strongly against letting a kid grow to be left handed so she learned to be right handed. It didn't change the fact that she was left eye dominant and when I started teaching her to shoot it caused a little problem which she solved by learning to do it right handed. I still retained the ability to do tasks fairly well with my left hand if right handed was inconvenient. I can still shoot a pistol fairly well left handed but hardly ever do. Even though I started life as a lefty I am heavily right eye dominant.

[NWBear]

I am left handed but I always shot rifles right handed.  I later found out I was right eye dominant so that was the right way to shoot.  I found out later from a Bow Pro Shop I should switch to right hand bows for the same reason.  In golf if you play "right handed" you are really using your left arm mostly. 

[BUGEYE]

I know about left handed scissors but until this kid no one here has had need of any. Now she knows how to make do with regular scissors if needing to use them left handed. I started life as a lefty but the sudden stop after falling out of a tree put a stop to that. Our daughter was a lefty but that was when society was strongly against letting a kid grow to be left handed so she learned to be right handed. It didn't change the fact that she was left eye dominant and when I started teaching her to shoot it caused a little problem which she solved by learning to do it right handed. I still retained the ability to do tasks fairly well with my left hand if right handed was inconvenient. I can still shoot a pistol fairly well left handed but hardly ever do. Even though I started life as a lefty I am heavily right eye dominant.

When I started 1st grade at 5yo, the teacher made me use my right hand, until, my Dad found out.
He took the next day off from work and took me to school, and the teacher (a woman that first year) learned real quick to leave me alone.   Of course toward the end of the year she took the chance and whipped me with a hickory switch until blood was running down my leg.  The superintendent was there the next day and backed her around the room with his finger in her face.