Writing in mirror..

[daenku32]

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left).

Either she is a genious or we need to work on her before she get's used to it..which is it??

[cbish]

I'd ask a Kindergarten teacher. At age 4, children do alot of things backwards, forwards, upside down. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it unless she's still doing it at 14.

[Dogdoctor]

I think I recall somewhere that the way our mind processes things is backwards and we have to learn to switch it around. I might be wrong though, it has been years since I studied humans.

[Phil]

. . . I might be wrong though, it has been years since I studied humans.

Yes, a peculiar species, aren't they?

[ruach1]

In my oppinion, four year olds could use all the attention they can get. Look into it. She just might love the attention.

[kmortis]

I think I recall somewhere that the way our mind processes things is backwards and we have to learn to switch it around. I might be wrong though, it has been years since I studied humans.
I think you're thinking of the way our eyes work. We "see" things upside down, until the brain processes the info "right side up". Of course, I could be wrong; and if I was a betting man, I'd put money on Dogdoctor.

[gnome]

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left).

Either she is a genious or we need to work on her before she get's used to it..which is it??

It is a possible sign of dyslexia. Though, not a sure thing just from that. They have some screening tests, I believe, that can make it more certain if she's actually dyslexic.

[Simon Bridge]

Backwards eh? You could have a Leonardo da Vinci there...

On another note:
How did kmortis get that sig. past rule 8? (wee willy what?)

[Kiless]

I wouldn't worry, as cbish said. It's all part of learning it and she's experimenting. :)

[Jeff Wagg]

My kids did the same thing..and now they don't. :)

[Godmode]

I started doing that when my first teacher started making me use my right hand for writing, but I soon got it figured out.

[Pastor Bentonit]

I´ve seen that many times, different kids, nothing to worry about. Is she left- or right-handed btw?

[Lothian]

She is clearly possessed by the devil and is a witch. Dunk her at once. .

[daenku32]

She is clearly possessed by the devil and is a witch. Dunk her at once. .
Yes. Finally a sensible answer! ;)

[HeyLeroy]

Yes, a peculiar species, aren't they?

And their pelts don't bring the kind of coin they used to. Especially the ones that smell like cocoa butter.

[That_guy]

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left).

Either she is a genious or we need to work on her before she get's used to it..which is it??

Try switching hands. My niece did the same thing (which caused my sister to incorrectly diagnose dyslexia,) until I asked her to try with her left hand. Lo and behold, she writes beautifully with her left hand.

[shells-on-my-eyelids]

This is warm fuzzy and helpful:

http://www.todaysparent.com/schoolage/education/article.jsp?content=20041007_110724_7092&page=1

[ceptimus]

http://81.174.131.162/qb.php?s=3&m&p=r&t=I don't see anything wrong with that, necessarily
:teacher:

[Piscivore]

!redruM !redruM

[malbui]

It turns out that both Mrs Malbui and I did this when starting to write - we're both left-handed and in trying to copy right-handed parents and teachers we apparently reversed everything. It sorted itself out quickly enough, though.

[fsol]

I am right handed and if I try to write with my left hand, without consiously trying to write the right way round it all comes out backwards. I guess it is just how the brain works.

[ceptimus]

Hold a piece of paper against your brow, and write your name on it. No mirrors allowed - you just do it 'blind'.

Most people write in mirror writing when they do this - it's a good trick to ask people to do it without telling them the expected result, and then see how surprised they are when they view their efforts.

[Art Vandelay]

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left).Backwards like ceptimus' post? Or backwards like Piscivore's?

There's no apostrophe in "gets"

I think I recall somewhere that the way our mind processes things is backwards and we have to learn to switch it around. I might be wrong though, it has been years since I studied humans.So humans have chosen, as their written language, the exact opposite of what they're hardwired to do? That doesn't make sense.

It is a possible sign of dyslexia. Though, not a sure thing just from that. They have some screening tests, I believe, that can make it more certain if she's actually dyslexic.I'm hardly an expert on dyslexia, but I would think that dyslexia would, at worse, make her write backwards half the time. Dyslexia means that you get confused between forwards and backwards writing, not that you prefer backwards writing.

Hold a piece of paper against your brow, and write your name on it. No mirrors allowed - you just do it 'blind'.

Most people write in mirror writing when they do this - it's a good trick to ask people to do it without telling them the expected result, and then see how surprised they are when they view their efforts.What do you mean by "mirror writing"? If you mean that, when they look at it, it looks backwards, then that means that when they wrote it, they wrote it forwards.

If you put them in front of a mirror, it makes them even more likely to write it "backwards".