Reply With QuoteDD2 does the same. We put it down to her being a leftie. DH was similar when he was younger (he is ambi, but tends to use his left).
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My son is only 4.5, so it's probably nothing at all, but he writes backwards. not actual words or anything, just letters he knows how to do. he writes them correctly, but goes right to left across the page.
it's just because he's 4.5, right?
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DD2 does the same. We put it down to her being a leftie. DH was similar when he was younger (he is ambi, but tends to use his left).
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Normal. My DS started going right to left and from the bottom right corner up to the top left. It will come right as he gets better at it.
DS's kindy teacher said it was to do with the brain cross-over - it is natural to start on the right side when using the right hand, especially in kids that skipped crawling like my DS did. You may be able to help him by doing gross motor cross over activities e.g. getting him to touch his shoulders with his ipsilateral hands, then contralateral, repeatedly as a move to a song. A lot of the actions to songs they do at kindy are the basis of writing.
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Iz does the same thing sometimes if she can't fit something in so it will drop to the next line and then go the other way - definitely normal and experimentation with letters and words etc.
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oh cool. google tells me it's normal, too.
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Totally normal.
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DD1 does this too... quite freaky how well they can write them perfect mirror image!
I wouldn't be concerned at all...unless his head is spinning around while he is doing it, then, maybe something else is up.
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Yep it's normal.... In fact letter reversals themselves are common even in grade one
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Perfectly normal. DS is a righty but writes backwards letters sometimes. He's just learning to write - great that it's recognisable! (But vexating that he's marked "wrong" on spelling tests when it's right, just the letters are reversed - not even the word!)
FWIW, I'm closer to 45 than 4.5 and write mirror image sometimes. As did Leonardo da Vinci. We're in good company.
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Yeah I was going to say I can running-write completely fluently forwards or backwards, so that it can be read perfectly in the mirror. It's just something I've always done.
So you never know, maybe he might end up having a useless party trick too
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