Left or Right-handed? When did your parents know for sure?

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If you are clearly left-handed or right-handed how old were you when you parents knew for sure? My youngest son who is 3 still shows no definite preference. His Dad is left-handed and I am right-handed. Which hand do you prefer and do you know how old you were when your preference first became obvious?

Venus

I'd love to help you, but I have no idea when my parents knew. All I knew was that they did, and they were ready to point out examples on both sides of the family when I asked (probably when I started school).

When you say left-handed, do you mean consistently left-handed (fairly uncommon) or at least partly left-handed? Mixed handedness (left hand for some things, right hand for others) is surprisingly common (18%?).

I'm half and half.

I'm right-handed, but I took a wild guess as to when my parents knew.

I'm primarily left-handed (and when I'm doing things with my left hand, my right hand tends to go wherever it feels like, in general being a nuisance ). For some reason, certain tasks when done one way I can only do left handed (e.g. writing forwards), but when doing that task slightly differently (e.g. writing backwards), I seem to be equally adept with either hand. I'm not sure when exactly my parents found out, but I know that it was early (well before school). Sure made things a nuisance trying to learn to do things, not only having to follow visual instructions, but having to mirror what those visual instructions were.

I am left-handed, and I remember shopping for school supplies before kindergarten, and getting the green-handled lefty sissors....also for a long time, I had to hold something in my left hand the way you's hold a pencil, to know which way is left....still have trouble with left and right....i have had the same ring on my left hand since thrid grade (the second time)

Right-handed here.

I use my right hand... had problems deciding in first grade and chose right... have been told I should have been left handed. As a consequence use both relatively easily.

From the time i first learn't to scribble on paper [between 1 and 2 years old] I was doing so 90% of the time with my right hand...and by age 2 I was righting predominantly with my right hand.

So...yes...i'm right handed.

I was/am ambidextrous. However, while in first grade, the teacher started keeping me after school and hitting me with a ruler whenever I used my left hand. I put up with it for a couple of days, until I finally went into retreat mode. The teacher couldn't get me to do anything but sit on the floor under my desk. She called in the principal and, during the interrogation, henoticed the bruising on my hand. That Friday, we had a substitute teacher and I never saw the other one again.

However, I started writing soley with my left hand and am stuck with that to this day. I do use either hand when writing on a blackboard or such.

Pops

I was abused for being a lefty by my first grade teacher too...though really I think she mainly just abused me for being odd...the left-handedness was just a part of it in retrospect.

Ambidextrous,started as left handed,then became right handed [physically forced to be right handed],and both became equal.
Dont have a preference,am let whichever wants to take the command do the job.

i was ambidextrous till i was about 6 or 7 years old. i cant write with my left hand very well at all now, though i eat left handed.

I'm a leftie and proud of it I think my mom figured it out around 3-5, though I think the fact that I wasn't speaking worried her more

I'm fully ambidextrous. Only reason I write exclusively left handed is that in grade school the teacher decided since there were no left handed students that we needed one. So every time she'd see me switch hands in the middle of a word/letter/sentence she'd swat me with a rule on my right hand.

So I do everything with either hand except write.

Always been right handed.

im a lefty and i voted 3-5 cause im not sure.... my parents said i started out with my right hand and switched over at some point. it might have been the 1-2 range though cause i did lots of drawing before i ever did writing ect.