Somewhere between 10 and 15 per cent of the population are left-handed.
Children and young people who favour their left have to put up with two main things. First, they have adults telling them to use their right hand for a task. Second, they have to cope with tools that are the wrong way round for them.
Talk about this. Why do adults encourage people into conforming? Young people who are not right-handed can be labelled clumsy or awkward. Is this fair? What might it do to your confidence?
Discuss the words used to describe left-handers. What do they mean? Are they meant to be unflattering? Why?
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