by Peter | May 27, 2026 | brain, education, hand, left-right, write
Saying “I know which is my left hand because I write with it!” is is not an expected justification for knowing the left from the right hand. More typically one hears “I know my right hand because I write with it!” And as such, the left / write...
by Peter | Apr 28, 2026 | brain, education, hand, write
This paper, I Don’t Know What’s Right and What’s Wrong : Parent Perceptions of Support and Progress of Their Children With Handwriting Difficulties was published by Literacy UKLA vol 60 Issue 2 This study was to understand parents’ perceptions...
by Peter | Apr 28, 2026 | interaction, social
The other Saturday, while waiting at a No. 9 Warrington bus stop at Lyons Lane ( on the way into Manchester via Warrington Central), I got into conversation with a mum and her 11 tear old son who was sitting on the kerb, facing the road. At some stage during the...
by Peter | Apr 18, 2026 | interaction, parents, social
This post has three phases; viewing an early Frozen Planet on a large screen with the Warrington U3A, a London underground trip to view the Samurai exhibition in the British Museum, and explanations The Frozen Planet: Spring. Three scenes intrigued me and prompted me...
by Peter | Apr 17, 2026 | ADHD, Big Pharma, brain, handedness, left-right
There at least three answers to the question of what is ADHD: It is a ‘medical condition, first described in symptom terms in 1798 by the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton as “the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to any one...
