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Conference moira::parenting_v3

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING
Moderator:	CSC32::DUBOIS

Created:	Wed May 30 1990
Last Modified:	Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1364
Total number of notes:	23848

1356.0. "thumbsucking related to eventual hand dominance?" by CRONIC::ORTH () Wed Apr 08 1992 16:18

    I ahve a question which I couldn't find covered, exactly, anywhere
    else, and which is asked more out of curiosity than concern...
    
    Our 10 month old, Jacob, is and avid thumbsucker. He is our 4th kid,
    and none of the others ever sucked their thumbs (they went for
    pacifiers). Now for the question... In the experience of those of you
    who have thumbsuckers, is there any correlation between the thumb of
    choice for sucking, and their eventual hand dominance?
    
    All 3 other kids are right handed, and so are my wife and I. I have no
    problem whatsoever with having a left handed child, so my main thrust
    here is curiosity. Jake always sucks his left thumb. Is that because
    it will become his dominant hand, or does he such the left thumb to
    leave the right hand free (he often plays with stuff or at least grabs
    and holds stuff while sucking his thumb)? Or is it totally unrelated?
    Any ideas out there?
    
    --dave--

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
1356.1	Our experience	CSOA1::ZACK	`Wed Apr 08 1992 16:39`	8
	Dave, My daughter sucked her index and middle fingers on her left hand up until last month (she is 4). She is right handed. Alicia started sucking her fingers when she was 9 months old so I don't know if she picked her left hand because she would eventually be right handed.. Angie
1356.2		KAOFS::S_BROOK	`Wed Apr 08 1992 17:24`	7
	Nope, no significance ... We have a 7 year old thumb sucker ... she's right handed and has always been, and sucks usually the left thumb ... but if her left hand is busy she's been known to suck her right. Stuart
1356.3	Calloused Thumb Sucker	SEIC::MAZZUCOTELLI	`Thu Apr 09 1992 13:27`	8
	My 20 month old daughter has sucked her left thumb exclusively ever since she found it. I know it's early but I think she's showing right handed tendencies. I'm a lefty and my husband is a righty so which ever way she goes, is fine with us. BTW, it's not that bad being a lefty (as she looks at her mouse on the RIGHT side of her workstation!) it makes us more adaptable. Jane
1356.4	Which way do they sleep? y	CSTEAM::WRIGHT	`Fri Apr 10 1992 14:30`	6
	My unscientific theory is that it's related to which direction they face when sleeping in the early months. When an infant is put down to sleep on his stomach, he will probably seem to favor facing right (with his left ear on the pillow) or facing left (with his right ear on the mattress.) My son liked to face left, so found his left thumb first, and that became his habit.
1356.5	toes toes beautiful	BSS::K_LAFFIN	`Mon Apr 13 1992 20:21`	9
	Oh great! Now I'm worried. Kayla just quit sucking her thumb two weeks ago and has started sucking her toes. Both feet. Sometimes at the SAME TIME. What is to become of this child. (smiles) but its true Katrina