My bread knives are scalloped on both sides.
Or at least I think they are. I’ll check later.
My husband’s a lefty and I’m a righty, neither of us have an issue using the same knife.
My knives are not an issue.
An aside, my son had to learn to shoot a rifle right handed in the Marine Corps. I don’t recall if it was a policy or if it was just how they taught him. He had been using guns since about 10yo, as a lefty. They changed that.
Not true. I can’t quite work out the mechanics of it, but if you use scissors of the wrong hand, there’s a gap between the blades and they’ll mangle the paper or cloth instead of cutting. For a kid, being able to cut neatly is a big plus.
My cite is my own experience. I learned to use right-handed scissors in school, but when I got older, my mom assembled a small sewing kit for me. She drove all over town to find lefty shears. Unfortunately, by then I’d been ruined and had to abandon them.
The kid’s way too young now, but if he gets into camping, get him a left-handed Swiss Army knife. Mine is my prize possession. I learned that the can opener on a standard knife is right-handed when my left hand went completely numb trying to get dinner open.
I have a small pair of cheap school type scissors sitting in my end table. I keep the there to open mail or cut a coupon. Just a handy spot. I just grabbed them and cut a piece of paper. Lefthanded, right handed or upside down in either hand. Worked perfectly. The brand is ‘academic’. I’m sure They came from Wal-Mart.
I am currently gathering scissors around the house. I have many pair. I’m going to conduct a cutting experiment. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
The blades are reversed on lefty scissors.
Lefty scissors feel very wrong to use with your right hand. The top blade also blocks your view of the line a bit (when using the wrong scissors in your dominant hand). Having tried them (i.e., being a righty who has used lefty scissors), I’m a big believer of offering left-handed kids the appropriate scissors for them. If they end up cutting with their right or preferring righty scissors, that’s fine. But for a few dollar investment, it’s worth letting your child try them out.
Please make sure you buy a true lefty pair and not those that claim to work for either. The “ambidextrous” scissors have a neutral grip on standard righty blades.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fiskars-Softgrip-Left-handed-Pointed-tip-Kids-Scissors-5/23872524
Something to clean all that ink and graphite off his hand.
I’ve tested 7 pairs of scissors. The only ones I didn’t use on paper were my good sewing scissors. They all cut perfectly in either hand, except some old kitchen shears. They were serrated to one side and I think that was the problem.
I think it’s some kind of fine motor skill or something. At kindy today I picked up a pair of their scissors and used them just fine with my left hand. But when he tries it just doesn’t work at all. I imagine as an adult he’ll be able to adjust as easily as I can but for now he can have his own special pair.
The pocketknife is a good idea in 5 or so years.
It must be the way he writes/draws or something but his hand is cleaner than mine afterwards. I’m a terrible dragger.
Yep. Its all about what works for him. I’m lefty and 2 of my kids are lefties. We all do things differently.
How about not thinking about his dominant hand and just buy him something fun for XMas? Save the everyday stuff that helps him for… any other day.
Now if you can find spend a few hours and, nowadays if you want something specific, like being left handed, there are tons of places that cater to the specific. I love the Internet! It’s where I get all my pet themed stuff 
And really old stuff like the pompom Chicago White Sox Coke hats for my hubby. Big url for the one I bought 2 years ago and if anyone has a few stashed in their closets/attics… the dude loves them and I’ll pay about $30 plus shipping for them.
I bought him 3 via etsy and ebay… he may be set for about 20 years now but… those pom poms do get yucky and fall off.
My left handed MIL has all the left stuff she could ever want… it would have to be extra new so she hadn’t bought it for herself already.
At 4 I would go with beyond finger paints unless he likes finger painting still with things like the water color by number books or even the color by numbers not oil paint books. Or color crayon books or musical instruments (keyboards/drum sets/guitars).
Anything that is fun or cool (no idea on lil kids stuff any more as mine are all pretty much adults and no grandkids).
I do have a left handed brother and he pretty much does everything with his right hand besides his signature and welding. He found at a young age (19) he laid a bead better with his left than his right.
Just checked both of my bread knives and both match what Quartz describes as left handed. One is from a low to mid-range knife set, the other is a Sainsbury’s own brand. In a right dominated world you’d expect any random bread knife to be right handed. The odds of buying two left handed knives when not specifically looking for one seems pretty low.
Wow, you’re quick! As soon as I posted my response I realized that my brain had cramped and edited it to “NM”.
Why is there a special kind of notebook? 
Couldn’t you just write on the left pages instead of the right pages to get on the correct side of the spiral? (IALH)
I have a left-handed corkscrew too and my wife gets mad at me every time she tries to use it.
Fountain pen nibs are symmetrical, at least every one that I’ve ever used (I just checked the one in my pocket). Calligraphy pens are a different story–you really need a lefty model for that.
I have a left-handed ruler, which is great for marking off measurements on paper or wood. If a lefty uses a right-handed rule, the left hand holding the pencil covers up the measurements you are trying to read.
Italic nibs, for example, are not.
You could, but tell your left-handed kid who’s already feeling awkward when every other kid in class is right-handed to work in his notebook from back to front.
It’s even worse when the classroom only has right-handed desks.
Those stupid things suck in general anyhow.
That post makes good points about the musical instruments. For now I’ll just resting one of the ukeleles for him. And I’ll have to figure out how to rejig a fishing reel as well.