How to tell if you child is left brain or right brain?

Question

How can you tell if your young child is right brain or left brain. It says that at young ages children start out as right brain oriented and then because of how school is they slowly become left brain. So how do you know what your young child is and teach your child according to how they learn..

Answer 1

Right handed = Left Brain

Left handed = Right Brain

If the theory of the schools influence was true, we would have no southpaws.

Answer 2

Contrary to what the posters before me have said, your child's dominant hand is not proof of whether your child is right brained or left brained. I am right handed, but I lean more towards right brained learning.

Just look at what activities your child enjoys, whether they seem to understand words or images better. If you want to teach your child according to how they learn best, try different methods, and ask them which one the prefer.

Answer 3

This is a common misconception- when functioning normally, a person's whole brain works in harmony, there is no hemisphere that is "stronger" or more active than the other. An interesting "brain FAQ" quiz video at http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/media-...

Answer 4

You will know LONG before they go to school. As young as a 3 or 4 months old they start reaching. What hand is the child using? When they start feeding themselve, what hand is dominate? When the child uses crayons, what hand is used the most. These are with your child since birth. LONG before they begin school.

Answer 5

I *think* that left handed = right brain and right handed = left brain.