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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Don’t know about the other answers, but I remember when I was learning letters and numbers that I would reproduce them by the rules I was taught about the character.
For example, the letter “J” starts at the top, goes straight down, then curves up at the bottom.
Ok. So I’d write a vertical line that curved up at the bottom. Except it would curve to the right. Probably because most other characters were drawn left to right.
Perhaps I had a fault in my learning or my recall or in the instructions given in that I wouldn’t also add the directionality to the rule – “…then it curves back up TO THE LEFT”.
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