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Some of you are familiar with my predicament on having my 5 year old play T-ball this year, so this may seem a little funny.

We had a rare warm day here in MD the other day (upper 40's), so my son and I went outside to play catch. After about 10 minutes or so, he told me to wait a minute, and he disappeared around the side of the house. A minute later, there he was with batting tee and bat in hand. I asked him what was up. He said he needed to practice hitting, and wanted to hit off the tee. I told him I would field the balls while he hit. After a couple of minutes, the stinker put a ball on the tee, and moved over to the crooked side (left side). I asked him why he was doing that and he said that he would be closer to 1B after hitting the ball and that daddy wouldn't be able to get him out.

Good stuff!!!
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When my wife was pregnant with Little Beast about 14 years ago. I hoped for a lefty. I read an article about a dad that made his son into a lefty by just giving everything to him in his left hand all the time. He said it worked. I thought about doing that. But decided to let him choose on his on. First glove he picked up when he was about three was an old plastic right hand glove. And he put the glove on his right hand with out any suggestion from any one. He turned out to throw and bat left.Just thought I would share that with Ya'll. Lefty's are special.
To all parents:

Take my advice; do not ever try to change a righty to a lefty or a lefty to righty. This was done to me by my father because he did not want me to be labeled as slow. Back then, in our little corner of the world, lefties were thought to be slow (ha-ha, so not true). When I started using my left hand, my father would make me do it over again with my right, this including eating, and writing. To this day I cannot skate, ski, or do anything that requires any type of real coordination. I eat and write right handed but everything else I learned on my own I do left handed. I have taken quite a few bad falls and feel like a klutz most of the time. Just let the natural thing happen, let the child do what feels natural. When my son first picked up a bat as a toddler, he took a big left handed swing. My husband took the bat out of his hand to make him swing right and I instantly started screaming like a mad woman to leave him alone and let him be. Anyway, my son ended being a right hander that bats left.

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