Should he be left handed?

I think it's important that people are allowed to use whichever had feels best to them for any activity.
My brother-in-law was forced against his instinct to use his right hand (by his mother) and he has had numerous psychological problems all his life, maybe not as a direct consequence, but I'm sure it did not help.

I read somewhere recently that being ambidextrous means being able to use either hand equally well, as opposed to doing some things best with one hand but other things better with the other, as is commonly believed - I believe that someone gave the correct term for the latter earlier on the thread. Apologies for not remembering who.
On that basis, I doubt if many of us, if any at all, know anyone who is truly ambidextrous.

There seems to be a whole spectrum of 'handedness'!! It's one of those things one sort of assumes that if someone is left or right handed then that's it, that's what they are. Posts on this thread have shown otherwise. I wonder what this means in respect of the brain's left/tight dominance?
People with brain injuries can - and indeed do - relearn activities using the other side of the brain. I'm fascinated by the different writing styles adopted by left handers, brother writes normally from left to right as does Dil, but both have a very crabbed, tight handwriting. An old friend writes with her hand curved round the top of the page writing downwards, and I also know someone who turns the page sideways and writes from bottom to top. I need to go Googling!

My daughter is left handed but eats right handedly (is that a word?) whilst my right handed son eats left handedly. Their father plays two handed sports as a leftie but one handed as a rightie. Both my DD and SiL are lefties but the gcs are righties. I find it all fascinating ?

I thought that being ambidextrous was linked with lateness in talking and dyslexia but the many replies here don't mention any problems with it.
Now children are left to use whichever hand they want we can see that, as with gender, there are many shades of grey in between black and white.

I am right handed, but do some things left handed. For example I deal cards and hold the cards the way left handed people do. I can also write with a pen in both hands, but the writing with my left hand is mirror writing. I remember my grandfather was ambidextrous.

I eat right handed with knife and fork, but if only using a fork, i have no preference. The same applies to a spoon.
No preference over which hand i hold a cup in, either.

I have always blamed these things on breaking my right elbow when only 2.5 years old. I couldn't use it at all for 6 months, which obviously meant I was totally left-handed during all that time, but who knows!

My eldest daughter is left handed but she eats right handed (knife in right hand). I have no idea why nor does she...

Both my daughters are lefties and set the table left handedly, but both eat right handed!

Nadal intentionally retrained to play tennis left handed as they are harder for right handed players to beat.
I am naturally left handed but was forced to write with right hand when little. My mother presumably got fed up with this as skills such as sewing, cutting, bowling etc I do left handed, no way could I use right hand! My writing with left hand looks like a child's.

Apparently Nadal does everything with his right hand except play tennis. I think people just do what is comfortable to them.

And, DS2 is extremely good with his hand-to-eye coordination, can juggle with all sorts from fire sticks to balls, and good with Lego etc.

Don't worry, DS2 is the same. Except that although he was mostly ambidextrous, I encouraged him t be right handed. He is right as rain today, firmly right-handed, although he is handy with his left hand too. BTW he is dyslexic too - so I didn't want to add to his difficulties.

I write with my left hand, and strangely can only make a phone call at my left ear! I played tennis and hockey right handed, also knit right handed. My poor father was punished at school for being left handed and was not allowed to use his left hand. Because of this, his hand writing was really bad.

Do I detect a faint air of condescension? As the meerkat says, seemples-don't read/post.

The most complex thing I use my hands for is playing piano. There are no left-handed pianos. I find the whole subject vaguely ludicrous.

There's a test you can do to see what eye you see with first too. My eldest boy is right handed (but can use left hand), left footed and left eyed. He is creative in thinking, not necessarily in execution and terribly clumsy...we were told that often happens with people who aren't completely right or left sided. I'm the same and my late Grandad too although he was forced to use a right hand when he was young.
My other son is Left handed, right footed and right eyed. I have to say he isn't terribly creative and he is quite clumsy!

my oldest grandaughter is left handed - the only one in our family i think. however, although she writes with her left hand, she uses cutlery right handed and, i think, uses a computer mouse with her right hand too.
her other grandmother told my daughter that she should tie my grandaughters left hand behind her to encourage her to use her right hand for writing!!! how glad i am that my daughter ignored that advice.
however my grandaughter is very artistic and draws well - although her mum [my daughter] is artistic too and draws well right handed.
we can all write both left handed and right handed.
while i can't draw or paint to save my life, i can draw detailed plans of homes and gardens [i designed my own garden].
so i'm not too sure how much credence you should put on research - you can make research do anything that you want it seems.

Like M0nica, I have mixed laterality, and it sounds as though you have too! There is a learned journal dedicated to the scientific study of laterality, but there's also a lot of nonsense pushed by pseudoscientists about handedness. Your grandson will be just fine!

I'm the same - I write right-handed, but am entirely happy typing left-handed whilst holding a phone to my right ear! I also canoe left-handedly. I describe it as "even-handed" :P
My father was predominantly left-handed, but had been forced into right-handed writing at school. He was a devil on the bowling green, because he changed hands at whim - it meant he could get at angles no-one else could!

Our GS was totally ambidextrous. I found it fascinating to watch him colouring and just switching the crayons between hands. He was out under no pressure from home or school but eventually he favoured his right hand - no idea why. He still sometimes uses his left when colouring.

I am right handed but can only use a knife and fork if the knife is in my left hand. My cousin was the other way around. Just one of those things. At least these days left handed children aren't forced to become right handed.

I was born in the early 1940's , and was made to write with my right hand at nursery and school. I can still write with my left hand, and it came in very useful when I broke my wrist playing hockey at school.

Thank goodness children aren't forced to use their right hands these days if they are naturally left handed.

BIL is totally ambidextrous and at least one other family member is right-handed and left-footed.

That should be my DS!