When could your child do his/her ABCs and count to 10?

[Anonymous]

At what age?

[Anonymous]

2-2.5?

[Anonymous]

20 months

[Anonymous]

18-20 months

[Anonymous]

My just about to turn 2 yr old can count to ten. He can sing along to the alphabet song but can't recite the whole alphabet on his own - gets part way through then gets off track. Another couple months and he will probably have it.

[Anonymous]

2-2.5, recognizing the letters in random order not just reciting the song.

[Anonymous]

20 mo can count to 10 (but skips 6) and has just started singing abcs but misses about half the letters. It's darn cute though!

[Anonymous]

Sometime before 2.

[Anonymous]

19 months

[Anonymous]

22 months and bilingual
- only knows number 2
- knows 10 letters of spanish alphabet, but none in english
- can read some though - she can pick up a book and read some pages, and has memorized one book.

[Anonymous]

Kids don't even understand what letters mean when they are young toddlers. This is just shape recognition, and is not necessary for learning to read at an appropriate age. Don't stress yourself out. Your kindergarten teacher wants them to know these by the start of that school year, when most kids are 5 or 5.5. You have plenty of time. Personally, I think getting your child into rote learning early on interferes with creative thinking, but some people seem to think it is a sign of intelligence and push it on their young toddlers. Whatever floats your parental boat.

[Anonymous]

23 mo twins can count to 6 (and understand the numbers), can recognize about half of the alphabet, but don't know them other than as shapes.

[Anonymous]

A bit before 2.

[Anonymous]

2.5

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids don't even understand what letters mean when they are young toddlers. This is just shape recognition, and is not necessary for learning to read at an appropriate age. Don't stress yourself out. Your kindergarten teacher wants them to know these by the start of that school year, when most kids are 5 or 5.5. You have plenty of time. Personally, I think getting your child into rote learning early on interferes with creative thinking, but some people seem to think it is a sign of intelligence and push it on their young toddlers. Whatever floats your parental boat.

you really like to underestimate kids. Mine understood letters easily and read by 3.5.