When did your kid know all of their colors?

[Anonymous]

Seriously starting to worry DS might be colorblind.

[Anonymous]

How old is your DS?

[Anonymous]

I've known colorblind people. There are ways to compensate. What colors does your child mix up?

[Anonymous]

I can't remember exactly. Probably around age 2?

However, one of the reasons that it can vary a lot is that you have to remember there are multiple vectors of knowledge being built here. Your kid learning his colors at age 1-6 is different than you learning a new set of facts at whatever your age is. You have extensive experience with language and understand how it works in a variety of contexts. You know how to differentiate between types of information and sort them.

Also, as with a lot of this stuff, kids have layers of knowledge that starts shallow and then gets more complete. Your child might memorize the colors of a favorite multi-color toy first, but be unable to apply this knowledge elsewhere for a while. But eventually he'll be able to understand that not only can a block be yellow, so can a leaf, and a sweater, and the background in a picture book, and an ear of corn. Let him start small though. Can he identify colors correctly in any setting, even if he gets them wrong in other settings?

Finally, here is a tip I learned when my DC was young that is useful for this kind of thing: when teaching young kids concepts, keep your language simple and put the most important information either at the beginning or end of a sentence, and preferably the end. This is because they have limited language comprehension and may not pick up on words buried in the middle. So saying "Block - Red!" is much more useful than saying "This is the red block." Your kid doesn't know what an adjective or a noun is, doesn't understand how one modifies the other. And also may not be paying close attention to longer sentences.

[Anonymous]

Just one data point - my kid is 26 months and knows blue, purple, pink, and green only. Working on red and yellow.

[Anonymous]

Probably age 2. Can you try matching colors? Like get blue and purple crayons, ask him to put each crayon on color shirt it matches. I think those are 2 commonly confused colors in colorblind people. Also, there's those dot pictures they can or can't see.

[Anonymous]

Age 2.

[Anonymous]

Two kids both by age 2.

[Anonymous]

My 2.5yo DS knows a few colors. He mixes them up frequently (green/blue, red/pink, blue/purple). I can’t remember exactly with my older two, but I don’t think they knew all the colors consistently until more like 3.

[Anonymous]

DD was a very late talker, only by 30 months. But she knew her colors when she did start.

[Anonymous]

I figured out that my child was color blind when he was 3. He consistently saw a few colors as just one color. We had a family history of color blindness on the mother’s side of the family so we weren’t all that surprised.

It’s really not a big deal, and there are lots of workarounds. It’s just one more interesting thing about my child.

[Anonymous]

Between 2-2.5. It was like they didn't see the colors and then one day they could easily sort them.

[Anonymous]

18 months

[Anonymous]

Mine didn’t learn them until 3 and a half. I brought up colorblindness with his doc at his 3 year appointment and she said he was too you to test but she didn’t think he was (and she was right).

[Anonymous]

If you Google “color blind tests kids” you’ll get a bunch of images with pictures of shapes and cats embedded in colored dots. Kids don’t have to know “their” 🙄 colors to see the shapes therein.