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[quote=Anonymous]My kid was a whiz at puzzles at 2 but sometimes in preschool stopped understanding how they worked. I think she just memorized all her puzzles at two and could do them super fast on her own, but as she entered preschool and started learning there was a way to do them, suddenly she was confused by the abstract nature of that strategy and she was bad at puzzles for a long time and would ask for help even with a puzzle she'd had for years and I'd seen her do many times on her own. Then she started to understand the strategy and now (at 5) she's pretty good at puzzles again, though still not the total whiz she was at 2.

Days of the week have also been sort of hit or miss. She knew them and knew about "home days" being Sat/Sun when she was three, but she'd also OFTEN get confused or just forget which day was next. Sometimes she'd do this thing where she'd assert that it was a different day (say it was Tuesday on a Friday) and would not budge on it. I think it was a joke to her but she took it seriously? It could be frustrating if she didn't want to follow the schedule for the actual day and kept insisting it was a different day. I really think a lot of this was just being a 3 yo and testing boundaries and exploring how stubborn she could be.

What I've learned is that early child development is really not about learning specific things. Even when kids memorize these extensive facts on things, they wind up losing like 90% of that knowledge as they develop further because their brain starts to "cull" all the stuff they've memorized to focus on the stuff that is most important to their survival and day to day life. So they lose the names of all the dinosaurs in favor of a complex understanding of how friendship works. Or they forget and then have to relearn something like the season or the months of the year because they originally learned it without true understanding and context, so it doesn't stick the first time.

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