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Continue Reading →International Left-Handers Day is August 13th
Get ready to really celebrate being left-handed. We have a day set aside just for our uniqueness. August 13th is celebrated internationally as Left-Hander’s Day. It was first formed in 1976 as a way to bring awareness to the fact that left-handers are discriminated against in a right-handed world. Left-Handedness is a Gift Since that [...]
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Continue Reading →The Advantage of Being Left-Handed in Baseball/Softball
Being left-handed has some great advantages when playing baseball or softball. Incredibly, with 90% of the whole population being right-handed, in professional baseball an amazingly lower number of 75% are righties. Which means there are lots more pro baseball players who take advantage of being left-handed. Hmm, should say something to those of us who [...]
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Continue Reading →The Truth Behind the Left-Handed Population
How many people are left-handed? What percentage of the population is left-handed? Is this growing or shrinking? Good questions, all of the them. And here we’re going to get some answers. General belief is that the percentage is 10% of the total population. That is a number that must be extrapolated. I mean, really, how [...]
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Continue Reading →Famous Left-Handed Musicians
Of course, we all hear about the left brain/right brain stuff, and most of us believe that left-handers comprise the majority of the artistic world. Well, musicians are artistic, too. I was thrilled to discover some of my own favorite musical artists are lefties as well. Here’s just some of them and in no particular [...]
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Continue Reading →What Causes Left-Handed Orientation
The most common question we hear is what causes someone to be left-handed? Our most typical answer is that we are born this way. While that is actually the truth, it’s not the whole answer. When we talk about the whole answer, we can only talk theories. Nothing is proved conclusively, even in this modern [...]
Books
Being left-handed and living in a right-handed world does take some understanding. Luckily for us, many writers and experts realize this as well. For those who are raising left-handed children, or living with a left-handed person, the information to help you is available. We are thrilled to be able to share with you some of [...]
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Kitchen Accessories
As a left-handed person in the kitchen, you may have adapted to using right-handed utensils and gadgets. But, like me, you probably still use them with your left hand. When I discovered how much easier it was to cut things using left-handed knives, I was sold. My kitchen now has a full set of left-handed [...]
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Musical Instruments
As a left-handed person, musical instruments that can be played left-handed are so important. Musical talent can be thwarted with the wrong instrument. Let your own talent, or that of your children bloom with a properly designed left-handed musical instrument. String instruments, like guitars and violins, are best when suited to the dominant hand. When [...]
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Left Handed Connotations: Good or Bad
Many Western cultures have associated left-handed terms with some not-so-good meanings, but there are other cultures and religions that set up left-handed as being the good or the powerful. We think it’s time to explore some of them and see whether these connotations are really good or bad. We owe some of these negative connotations [...]
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Is Left Hand/Right Brain For Real?
There is a great saying: If right-handed people have dominant left-side brains and left-handed people have dominant right-side brains, then only lefties are in their right mind. Humorous, yes, but correct? That’s a confusing nother story. This whole idea actually began with a neurosurgeon in France. Paul Broca in the mid-1800′s discovered that a portion [...]
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Sports Equipment
Whether you are left-handed or your child is, playing and learning sports can be an important factor in life. And excelling in sports requires strength and coordination. That’s where left-handed sports equipment becomes valuable to a left-handed person. The strength and coordination is in that left hand. We are all, or have been, active in [...]
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Watches
Dealing with watches that are designed for right-handed people can really cause some problems. When you’re a lefty, you want your watch on your right hand, but then you can’t easily get to the dials. So the best solution is to get yourself a left-handed watch. These also make great gifts for the lefties in [...]
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Arts & Crafts
When working with arts and crafts projects, things like scissors for a left-handed person are so helpful. Improving our quilting and scrapbooking skills became so much easier when we switched to left-handed tools. If you’re a lefty or parent of one, make things easier. Switch to left-handed tools. Here are some of our favorites, all [...]
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