Why there is an insistence on determining whether a child is left or right handed is narrow-minded.
Just because a child may have a natural preference toward one hand over the other doesn't mean that that preference should be strengthened and enhanced overtime.
In fact from a balancing standpoint the opposite might actually be the case if one were to have to choose one hand over the other. (Which seems to be the mandated limiting case). As the expression goes one is only as strong as the weakest link.
If hand side preference represents tendency for primary brain hemisphere utilization with respect to operations in the world, it would make sense to strengthen the weaker side of the brain as the natural stronger side will grow over time with more ease.
In the long-term perspective this bilateral hand usage would be beneficial for bilateral balancing of the mind and of the entire body. This bilateral concept applies to sports as well.
Bilateral balancing of body would reduce physical ailments. I'm sure it would reduce various psychological conditions over the course of time.
Right and left hand enforced or suggested ambidexterity would increase connections across the corpus collosum that divides the two hemispheres of the brain. Logic and artistic, linear and open-ended thinking would be more flowing among individuals.
From an academic standpoint those children who are bored with regurgitation of American history for eight years of school in a row and /or those who are bored with regurgitation of doing multiplication and division for 6 years of school might be able to decrease their ADHD medicine because their brains would actually be stimulated and their bodies more engaged than the sedentary current state of academics.
Having been a high school biology teacher ....The standards are well....quite standard.
Food for thought or you can go eat some. What a strange expression. I'll just put it all out on the table. Something to ruminate on anyway CUD I say so.
The Power of Words. Quite Handy.
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