One in ten boys and slightly fewer girls are left-handed. As a nanny you could well find yourself looking after a 'southpaw'.
In left-handed people, it is the right hemisphere of the brain that controls the dominant left hand, the opposite to what happens in right-handers. The left hemisphere interprets details and reasoning; the right hemisphere interprets information through visual or creative clues.
This means that left-handed children are likely to be especially creative and have good spatial judgement and the ability to project 3-D mental imagery. Left-handers also have a dominant left ear, eye and foot. In practice, it follows that left-handers are likely to be good at sports, in particular tennis, golf and fencing, as well as music and the arts.
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