It’s International Left Handers Day, a time to celebrate the lefties among us!
It’s also a day to recall that lefthandedness was once stigmatized. One of my colleagues says she would have been left handed, but her kindergarten teacher forced crayons into her right hand until she got the hang of it.
Although some lefties say there is still a dearth of left-handed scissors and left-handed school desks, left-handedness now might actually be a desirable trait in a child. Or so suggest some of the folks promoting today’s festivities, who argue that some research shows left-handed children tend to have higher IQ’s than their right-handed peers.