At what age did your child know all shapes, colors, numbers and letters?

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe hiy people know exactly what age your kids did these things

I have a 4 year old, she knows these things and has known them for a while. So yeah, I know.

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Ds knew them well before two. The thing is, he loves that simple memorization. We didn’t do anything to encourage it, he was just drawn to learning those kinds of facts and his daycare encouraged his interests. He taught me the color Cyan when he was two. I had to google it, lol. He remains very interested and knows basic addition of numbers adding up to 12, no limit to numbers and was writing 100+1 and 100+2 on his chalkboard yesterday. He turned four last month.

But he also struggled a bit socially in his third year. Nothing terrible, but a bit. He could be rigid and easily upset, though thankfully that has passed. His language was also a bit slower to develop than some peers and he def is more physically cautious.

None of it matters. They will be ahead of the pack in some areas, while bringing up the rear in others. That’s how we are as humans, try not to worry unless they fall outside of the typical range. The vast majority of us are raising typical children. Nothing wrong with typical!

A handful are parents to the next famous athletes, or pioneers in their fields. I knew a little genius as a child. He was doing calculus for fun when we were under ten. He really struggled socially and that was his burden. He does IT/software development and has written some books. Nothing much more than lots of kids in our neighborhood.

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I'm 37 and I have an engineering degree. Pretty sure I still don't know ALL the shapes and colors.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 37 and I have an engineering degree. Pretty sure I still don't know ALL the shapes and colors.

Lol

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My mom used to teach preschool (3 yo) and she said kids would come to preschool not knowing this stuff all the time. I figure they teach these things in preschool because it is normal for kids not to know all them at that age. My son’s FCPS kindergarten seemed to spend plenty of time working on that stuff even.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 37 and I have an engineering degree. Pretty sure I still don't know ALL the shapes and colors.

There are colors I only learned because my kid had the 120 color Crayola box.

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3yo for my oldest. She is curious, with a good attention span, and likes to learn.

My son is 4yo and still doesn't know. He has zero interest in learning anything w/r/t colors, numbers, letters, etc. It's beyond frustrating, but no amount of making it fun has changed that. Kids have different learning capabilities.

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DD is almost 4 and knows all of the above. I would say 3.5

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I don't even understand what the OP means by "knowing" numbers up to 20 or 30.

My kid (2.5) can consistently count to 20 but she has no idea what the number 14 actually is, for instance. On the other hand, she knows what it means to have one of something versus two of something. She knows the difference between doing something with two people versus three. She knows that if there are five speckled frogs and one jumps in the pool, now there are four. Those numbers all have meaning for her. But I'm guessing it will be some time before her world gets big enough to apply the same meaning to larger numbers. Or maybe I'm wrong! But I don't think a kid's ability to memorize counting up to a certain number indicates much of anything.

Plus, kids have crazy memories sometimes. We have songs that we sing regularly at bedtime, and our kid will correct us if we accidentally mispronounce one of the words. Similarly, she's memorized a bunch of her books and can "read" them to herself and will correct us if we deviate. But again, this is just rote memorization. It's cute and we encourage it because we want her to love books and learning and memorization actually is a pretty useful skill and is probably helping with her development. But memorizing the alphabet song, and even being able to correctly identify most letters, is not the same as knowing all the letters and the sounds they make and being able to sound out words. Like those are extremely different stages of development.

Anyway, there's a big difference between a kid memorizing a sequence or even memorizing the names we assign to different things and really "knowing" what those words mean. I'm guessing that's a big reason you see such broad variation in answers too -- people perceive this stuff very differently.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't even understand what the OP means by "knowing" numbers up to 20 or 30.

My kid (2.5) can consistently count to 20 but she has no idea what the number 14 actually is, for instance. On the other hand, she knows what it means to have one of something versus two of something. She knows the difference between doing something with two people versus three. She knows that if there are five speckled frogs and one jumps in the pool, now there are four. Those numbers all have meaning for her. But I'm guessing it will be some time before her world gets big enough to apply the same meaning to larger numbers. Or maybe I'm wrong! But I don't think a kid's ability to memorize counting up to a certain number indicates much of anything.

Plus, kids have crazy memories sometimes. We have songs that we sing regularly at bedtime, and our kid will correct us if we accidentally mispronounce one of the words. Similarly, she's memorized a bunch of her books and can "read" them to herself and will correct us if we deviate. But again, this is just rote memorization. It's cute and we encourage it because we want her to love books and learning and memorization actually is a pretty useful skill and is probably helping with her development. But memorizing the alphabet song, and even being able to correctly identify most letters, is not the same as knowing all the letters and the sounds they make and being able to sound out words. Like those are extremely different stages of development.

Anyway, there's a big difference between a kid memorizing a sequence or even memorizing the names we assign to different things and really "knowing" what those words mean. I'm guessing that's a big reason you see such broad variation in answers too -- people perceive this stuff very differently.

OP here. I mean recognizing the actual number. Like 4 or 19. That your child can read the numbers basically (point to a page number and read it). Not rote counting. Same with the alphabet.

And that you all for responding. It’s been interesting.