A new analysis has found that children who are “mixed-handed” or “cross-dominant” — they do some tasks better with one hand, other tasks better with the other hand — are more likely to have language, learning and mental health problems, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms, compared with right-handed kids.

That’s the word from a long, large study from Finland published recently in the journal Pediatrics.

The researchers concluded that mixed-handedness, which indicates the brain is wired a little differently than is the norm, could be used to help identify kids at risk of such problems.

But no one’s suggesting that kids be forced to use one hand or the other — the treatment some lefties once endured before the rest of society got enlightened. For now, it’s just one more thing about which easily unnerved parents can fret.