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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Children learn to read and write at an age where a person can be represented by a rough circle, an oblong, and four sticks. Or a house is drawn as a square with a triangle on top.
Look at this shape ” h ” image I tell you it’s a drawing of a chair. If I draw it mirror image is it still a chair? Why is it an “h” in one direction and “not an h” in the other? Children learning to write are at the stage in logic where they understand that the shape represents the object even if it’s upsidedown and backwards. Now tell me the difference between b and d and p and q.
It’s the same shape. It’s not intuitive for most kids that the same shape has a different meaning depending on it’s orientation.
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