Left handed - cutlery

[Pandora]

DS is lefthanded, and gets quite upset when we try to get him to hold his fork in left hand and knife in right.

How do we handle this, any suggestions?

[Floweryfields]

Let him do it as he is comfortable - I am a lefty and use mine normally, except if using a spoon - always confusing when posh places give you both spoon and fork for desser!

[Lolli]

Rayray, I'm 27 and I still use my knife and fork 'backwards'. and I'm right handed. It drives my mum mental

[Erin_25]

Rayray, I'm 27 and I still use my knife and fork 'backwards'. and I'm right handed. It drives my mum mental

:yeahthat:

& 6yrs on my husband has only just noiced...

[~Kim~]

hmmm not sure Ray. We're all lefties in this house (well 3 out of 4), and it hasn't ever occurred to me to use my fork in my right hand....
Darc doesn't have an issue with which hand we tell her, she actually has better control in her left hand, but we taught her which hand it goes in by getting her to set the table.
Though I reckon I'd be leaving it on whichever side he is comfy until he's old enough to have better control....
sorry not much help at all really.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I'm a leftie with "normal" knife and fork but backwards spoon - my parents just let me have the spoon in my left hand, it wasn't an issue.

I'd let Lieb hold his knife and fork how he wanted, so long as he ate off the fork not the knife (our biggest issue atm).

[AwesomeFoursome]

I'm left handed and I hold my fork in right hand and knife in left, unless I'm only using a fork or spoon then its in my left. I don't think it is an issue unless you make it a issue. I don't blame him for getting upset, if someone told me to swap hands they would be wearing the knife and fork. I would let him do it whichever way he is comfortable. Does it really make a difference?

[aussienic]

I am right handed but eat like a left handed person..

I think just let him eat how he is comfortable

ps my sister is the same.. right handed but eats like a lefty

[Rach75]

was just about to come in and say my sister and I are right handed but eat left handed but nic beat me

I would let him eat the way thats comfy there is no set and fast rule when eating in public I just swap my knife and fork over

[Tinks]

I know lots of left handed people who use their knife and fork round the wrong way. It actually makes more sense to me, we put our knife in our stronger hand. Let him use them however he feels more comfortable.

One of my parents friends insists the table be set for him left handed. If it isn't he goes up to the table and asks why there isn't a place set for him lol.

[~Kim~]

lol I'm so left handed that if I had my fork in my right hand food would never even get to my mouth...I am so gumby with it.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

OK, I think it's a bit rude to expect a table set specially for a person. It's easy to switch hands over - I mean, guests at my parents' dinner parties had to when I'd set the table! And not everyone has a seating plan so setting a specific place for a specific person isn't always feasible. And you wouldn't do it in a restaurant so why to your friends, who you surely value more than a random waiter (no matter how nice that waiter is)?

Kim, you should see me trying to use a spoon with my right. Took years of training to just get something to my mouth - I much prefer my left unless in a culture that sees using your left hand to eat as being really horrid.