Why do kids write some numbers and letters in mirror image?

Question

I’ve been practicing the ABCs and 123s with my son and notice that certain letters (J N P S Z) and numbers (4 6) he always writes backwards/mirror imaged. I’ve seen other kids, and even my own writings as a child, have the same quirk. Is this pretty much universal?

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Answer 1

Try learning a new alphabet that you don’t know, like Hebrew or Arabic. It’s super hard. We forget how hard it is to learn these symbols because we did it so long ago and we know them so well now that we can’t not read them when we see them.