August 13 is Left-Handers Day! If you or the lefties in your life feel excluded, forgotten, or even mistreated year-round due to your left-handedness, today is the RIGHT (haha!) day to celebrate being a lefty!
Left-Handers Day
After another year of scissors, desks, notebooks, coffee mugs, and more being seemingly pitted against lefties, the day has finally come to celebrate them! If you’re a lefty in a righty’s world, remember that you are not alone. Angelina Jolie, Prince William, President Obama, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Clinton, Lady Gaga, Jay Leno, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and many other well-known and successful people are left-handed! There is hope for us all!
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Volume 5, suggests a fun way for kids to celebrate this holiday:
Survey family or friends who are lefties (even if you are, too) and make a list of the difficulties that left-handed people experience doing everyday things. Based on your information, design a tool for a left-hander. Possibilities for new designs include scissors, a mug, a computer keyboard, a pencil sharpener, and a can opener. Make a drawing of your design or build a model.
Check out these fun bits of info from holidayinsights.com:
- Sinistrophobia is the fear of left-handedness or things on the left side.
- While many people are left-handed, very few are 100% left-handed. For example, many left-handers golf and bat right-handed. On the other hand, there is a high percentage of righties who are 100% right-handed.
- Lefties are also called “southpaws.” The term was coined in baseball to describe a left-handed pitcher.
- Only about 10% of the population is left-handed.
- During the 1600s, people thought that left-handers were witches and warlocks.
- International Left-Handers Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1976. It was started by Left-handers International.
- It is believed that all polar bears are left-handed.
- Think about it: Everyone is a left-hander in Left Hand, West Virginia!
- Explore more great facts and folklore about being left-handed.
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Left handed
My dad always says there’s no place for a left hand persons I heard this all my life but I turned out all right I’m 73 and all good
Left Hand
I am not only left handed, I was born on August 13th. Yea!!
South paws
I've heard that the name we got being Southpaw is from baseball. But the home plate faced East. so that means our pitching hand was facing south. I am 100% left handed so that means I'm in my right mind LOL Gary V
left handers
I am ambidextrous. Three of my six grandchildren are left handed. Their parents are right handed!