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Yesterday as I was looking at Eli, I realized that I need to remember how it's best for him to hold his paper.  I'm right handed and I just can't keep it straight in my head.  I found two great free helps. The first is here:   http://www.fernwood-inf.nottingham.sch.uk/Documents/left%20hand%20hw.jpg This is the main page and it has a lot of other great resources for preschool as well:   http://www.fernwood-inf.nottingham.sch.uk/Help%20your%20Child%20at%20Home.htm The second is  http://handedness.org/action/leftwrite.html On this page, there is a 1 page chart you can print to help you remember how a left hander should position their paper. As for scissors... Amazon increased the price on the Westcott lefty scissors by $3 (making them $8 instead of $5)!  The lefty scissors can be bought directly through Westcott's website for $3 each, but you'll pay $5 shipping, so you'd want to buy more than one pair to make it worth it.  I think I'm going to...

My son is 4 1/2.  He has been left handed since he was 1 1/2 years old.  I was surprised to see this because no one in my family or my husband's immediate family is left handed.  I realized very quickly that he wasn't switching back and forth.  If I gave something to him in his right hand, he switched it right over to his left.  He also held his pencil correctly at that early age of 1 1/2 years old.  It has been very interesting for me to watch.   When he began to work on cutting, I bought two pairs of "left handed" scissors from Lakeshore Learning.  I just learned this week that they weren't true "left handed" scissors.  No wonder he had such a difficult time cutting straight lines.  This week I discovered that he had started to cut with his right hand to compensate (even though this is harder for him).   I have known that I need to learn more about what it means to be left handed and how I can best help my son.  My search...