Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so today we’re diving into the archives of Care and Feeding to share classic parenting letters with our readers. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here .

Dear Care and Feeding,

My 3-year-old daughter is (obviously) still learning how to write and draw. She switches hands but has clearly shown partiality toward her left hand. While that’s a surprise, since no one in either of our immediate families is left-handed, her dad and I don’t care. We’ll get her the left-handed scissors and help her erase smudgy pencil homework. The issue is my mother, who frequently watches her after school.

She has taken it upon herself to “correct” the hand my daughter uses, scolding her and even moving the marker from the left to the

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