Reaction of parents?

[e_fullmoon]

Coming from a right-handed family, my parents were shocked, to say the least, when they saw me using my left hand to write back in kindergarten. (My father exclaimed really loudly and my mother started talking about how left-handers are really at a disadvantage in the right-handed dominated society) So I was wondering, what was your parents'

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Thrilled beyond belief

[sarita618]

I think my parents (at least my mom) were thrilled. My mom is left handed, and so was her father. Both he and my father's father were switched in school, back in the 1920s and '30s. Even at the age of 70, my grandfather still hesitates before he writes, as if he wants to use his left hand.

Out of four kids, I'm the only lefty - the odd man out. Come to think of it, I'm the odd man out when it comes to a lot of things! Oh well...I wouldn't have it any other way!

[trampoline_girl]

My parents thought I was confused when I was a toddler. They would take my crayon out of my left hand and put it in my right hand (since at that young of an age, children generally use both hands and don't really confirm dominance until later). But my mother said, I would just get a mad look on my face, switch back to my left hand and continue coloring. After a couple of times, they decided to let me do what I was going to do. I never did use my right hand to color, and that's when they realized that I was DEFINITELY going to be a lefty. Of course, because I was encouraged in my left-handedness, I am completely dominantly left-handed. As dominately left-handed as most people are right-handed.

[daynapanda]

My parents were very excited, because we're supposed to be smarter or something (or is it better serial killers? ahaha) and they never tried to force me to write with my right hand.
I'm the only lef-handed person in my immediate and extended family... weird huh? Maybe some of my dead relatives were left-handers but I don't know.

[kennykin]

I am the only person of my main family to use my left hand, and there wasn't much of a reaction from my family. My family fist figured out that I was left handed when my mother first started to teach me to eat. She would put the spoon in my right hand, and I would eat with my left. All atempts to get me to use the spoon in my right hand failed, and when she put the spoon in my left hand then i knew what to do with it. :) All my problems came from outside the family, and my family trying to figure out how to deal with that.

[simmaster]

I can't remember truth to be told. I DO remember it being a big issue however when I picked up a cricket bat left-handed, and my entirely right-handed family, friends and friends-family didn't have a clue how to teach me to hold it properly.