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It must be really stressful being a kid these days :( Now that I look back - the way we treat kids is just plain awful. When I was a kid I used to write using
by 1971genocide 11y ago
It must be really stressful being a kid these days :(
Now that I look back - the way we treat kids is just plain awful.
When I was a kid I used to write using my left hand and my teacher and parents used to scold me to try and change my habit.
It used to be really stressful and everything they tried did not work, 15 years later and I still write with my left hand and am not a terrorist so it seemed all that work, stress was a huge waste of resources. But more importantly my time and I am not sure what damage that stress must have caused my mental health.
Parents are also under enormous pressure and due to college debt need to save a lot of money and literally cash out a huge amount of their life-time wealth for the services of their kid's education.
By current projections in 2030 the average tuition is going to be 100,000 dollar per year for a private college. That is terrible news for kids and parents both.
- jonahx 11y agowhere did you grew up that there was superstition against left-handedness? that sounds like something from a century ago, not 15 years (in the US, anyway).
- 1971genocide 11y agoIt was in an english school in dubai. It was seen as not similar to other kids, since everyone else I knew were right-handed. I am not sure what the reasoning was to them - I never asked my parents about it anyway -
- MisterBastahrd 11y agoIsn't this an Islamic prohibition of sorts? In Islam, the right hand is used to do clean things, the left the impure. You eat with your right hand and perform toilet actions with your left. Could be wrong, but that's my recollection.
- inanutshellus 11y agoI suspect you're simply right handed or were lucky enough to be in some kind of safe environment for lefties. For me, a left-hander, while there was no superstitious negativity, there were dozens of harsh, practical negative interactions. One of my first memories of school was being sat at a round table. Every time I'd try to color, cut, paste, whatever, I'd bump elbows with the kid next to me. He'd get mad. I got in trouble. So I started sitting on the floor and doing my work on the chair. So I got in trouble. I'd smear everything I wrote, mangle my fingers in those fricking scissors, and learning that "Sinister" literally means "left-handed" was really grand. I despise being left-handed.
- 1971genocide 11y agoHopefully not anymore. The uniqueness of my left-handedness turns out to be great as an adult as its something sometimes people use as a conversation starter. The other advantage of left-handness is that I learnt that people who were left-handness had a a more active right brain, which means I am extra creative !
- mikeash 11y agoMy wife is Chinese and her family is still of the mindset that right-handedness is correct. I had to come down kind of hard for a while on attempts to "correct" our daughter into writing with her right hand. I think they're over it, but it's definitely the sort of attitude that still exists among some.
- vhold 11y agoI have a relative who went through the same thing in Kansas in the late 60s... But 15 years ago? Yeah that's nuts.