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[quote=Anonymous]My oldest is both highly gifted and was extremely determined to learn and understand the world.  By 3.5 he’d long since mastered days of the week and had already done deep dives on volcanos, space, geology etc and had no trouble doing 500 piece puzzles

Not a brag (he has his own issues!) just explaining bc I don’t have context if my middle child is more typical of a 3.5yo or if he’s worryingly behind

He can hold coherent conversations with long sentences, topic changes  and can count items to 20 etc.  He loooooves vehicles and does not have the same drive to learn and figure things out that his older brother does.  He cannot however grasp the concepts of the days of the week - he understands there are days and knows the days of week songs, but can’t put together that Saturday is always after Friday and that we don’t have school / work on Saturday.  He also struggles so much with even simple 20 piece puzzles - he doesn’t understand the straight edges go on the outside, that corner would go in a corner etc. Even if I tell him exactly where a piece goes, he’ll try to put it in incorrectly with no logic to how he’s positioning it.

We had a fairly traumatic experience with my first of not seeing some issues that were fairly minor in the grand scheme of things and then once they were on the radar, massively sent us down this black hole of specialists etc and ended up over correcting.  Because of that I worry both about under reacting and over reactive to if my 3.5yo is typical to other 3.5yos

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