OKEMAH, Okla. — A little boy in Oklahoma is learning how to write like any other pre-K student. But despite being left-handed, 4-year-old Zayde Sands was allegedly being forced to use his right hand ...
Left-handed kids haven't had it easy. For many centuries, people thought that doing things with your right hand was proper & pure, while doing so with your left hand was practically a sin. It's a ...
We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...
The myth that a child using a left hand is a bad omen is rooted in our culture has caused many problems for children who grow up to become adults. In Nigeria, using your left hand is often frowned ...
There's a lot of variety in how skilled people are in doing complex tasks like handcrafting, wood carving, or drawing with their hands. While some people are good at knitting a beautiful sweater or ...
Last month, I wrote a little op-ed about my favorite pens, and the response was … strong. Regardless of whether or not readers agreed with any of my picks (and plenty didn’t), it was great to learn ...
Early on in Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, one of its protagonists, an adorable Taiwanese girl named I-Jing (Nina Ye), is told by her grandpa that her left-handedness is a curse. "Don't use ...
When most people think about handedness, they have two different forms in mind: Left-handedness and right-handedness. Overall, studies that investigated how many people are left-handed and ...