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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: switching lefties, and nearsightedness
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 11:56:17 EDT
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> Why are people so uptight about this?  It really isn't much of a handicap.
> Eating isn't nearly as much of a problem as you'd think; just be polite and
> don't stick your elbows out.

My mother is left handed. We solved the problem of clashing
elbows by carefully arranging the seating pattern. At rectangular
tables she always sits at the left end of a side or at the end
of the table. Round tables don't seem to pose a problem. Even
when 6 people are sitting at a table designed for 4.

> Along the sports line, another pet bone to pick with teachers: DON'T make the
> kid take off his/her glasses.  If they WANT to wear them for gym, chances are

Get a safety strap for the glasses so they don't fall off
during active play. Also, be sure the child has hardened plastic
lenses, not glass. This makes it much harder for the glasses
to break, and if they do, minimizes any injury. Wearing
glasses in this manner is MUCH safer than not, even
disregarding the fact that now the child can see well. Why do
you think eye doctors recommend eye protection for sports such
as handball and racketball?
-- 
Suzanne Barnett

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