Parents of Leftys

[Justmee]

What do you do about a mouse? Or if you are left handed yourself. Nechama is a definite lefty and she's getting into the computer. Should I buy her a different mouse?

TIA

[zeldamomma]

My husband and I are both lefties and we use a regular mouse. Chances are, she'll have to use regular mouses (mice?) most of the time, so I wouldn't bother with a lefty mouse unless she's either doing art on the computer with a mouse, or having a lot of trouble with the righty mouse.

ZM

[LynnS6]

Dd is definitely a lefty and uses a right hand mouse just fine. In fact, we had a track ball for a while and I kept putting it on the left for her, and she moved it back to the right. OK.

[Mama Mko]

Alexander is a lefty and uses a regular mouse fine.

[pixiepunk]

yes, get her used to a regular mouse. i'm a lefty, and it's much easier learning to use a regular mouse than it is to use a lefty mouse and then sit down at someone else's computer and try to figure out how to use a regular mouse - and whether at school or a library or grandma's house or a friend's house or even down the road into the future at a job, needing to use a regular mouse is going to present itself. better to just learn it from the get-go.

lefty scissors and potato peelers sure are useful though!

[JennP]

you can go through options on your tool bar to set the mouse to left handed mouse but...both our leftys use it right handed since dh and I have never changed it and we use it right handed. Getting another mouse would not change anything unless you have a shaped mouse. Ours is oval and same shape from either side, only thing we could change would be the click and double-click sides.

[Eliseatthebeach]

I never thought about the mouse. I am a lefty and I just use a regular mouse. It was just the way I started and continued to use it.

[Phantaja]

My husband is a lefty and uses a regular mouse in his right hand. He says that, to some degree, lefties have to be ambidextrous.

[Logan's mommy]

I'm a lefty and I just use things how it feels most comfortable. When I use a mouse I turn it sideways so that I have no fingers on the right clicker and my pointer finger on the left clicker.
When I use scissors (off topic a bit) I use right handed ones on my left hand. I can't do much of anything with my right hand, so I just modify things to work with my left hand. It can be slightly amusing every once in a while.
I wouldn't get her a different mouse because she's going to have to use a regular mouse everywhere else.

[Nosy]

Another lefty using a regular mouse. Now I mostly use my laptop, with the mouse pad in the center. In theory I could use my left hand just as well as the right hand but I'm so accustomed to doing mousework with the right hand that I use my right hand on the laptop, too.

My 4 yo is also left handed and uses his right hand w/the mouse.

[amynbebes]

At home I just use a regular mouse and switch it to the left side. At work I have a rolly ball mouse that I just use with my right hand.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by rebeccajo

Alexander is a lefty and uses a regular mouse fine.

Angelo too.

[Devaskyla]

Another lefty who just uses a regular mouse. I actually can mouse with either hand. Useful for when a hand gets tired or I need to use my left one for something.

[Justmee]

She is kind of having issues with it, so I was wondering what I could do to help. I'm not sure if I should help her do it with her right hand, or let her keep doing it with her left and just help her adjust what fingers she is using to click.

[ceilydhmama]

I left hand mouse and dd who is a lefty always moves it back to the right side

[sanguine_speed]

We use a touch pad.

DP is a lefty and uses a right-handed mouse (and works on a computer all day with it).

[MommaFox]

NAK
I'm the only "righty" in my house, at least untik Mal starts writing un a few years and even then I still might be. Well, I write wih my right hand and do pretty much everything else with my left. The computer is mine and if the boys wat to use it they have to adapt. But I've got a thing called a "marble mouse" It's a trackball sort of mouse with the ball in the middle and buttons on either side. I can set it for left or right hands, bu tI don't bother. If I'm nursing on the right side, I'll use it left-handed and it;s not a big leap.

[kblackstone444]

My son is a lefty and he uses a regular mouse on the right side. Never bothered him.

[veganf]

My 3rd son is left-handed. But he mostly uses the laptop that also has a touchpad in the middle. But for a mouse we just switch it to the other side.

[Jessy1019]

I'm a lefty. I use a regular mouse, on the right side of the keyboard. My right hand in my mouse hand.