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[quote=Anonymous]OP, there are a lot of 2,5 year olds - especially only kids - who are not socialized with other kids. It always annoyed me when parents would compare their kid with mine of a similar age. It’s like if your kid was potty trained and their kid wasn’t. Or their kid wasn’t talking in complete sentences. These were my issues in 2000. But OP In 2025 you should know better.

When my kid was that age We didn’t have portable devices but at home and in the car he watched screens - baby Einstein and Leap Frog DVDs and Nick Jr and PBS. In that same situation he would insist on playing by himself not with the other kids, and by the time he was 6 he would have been sitting on a bench with a 700 page Harry Potter book AT THE PARK. At 10 he preferred to have conversations with the adults - and had lots of insight - than with kids. By middle school he found his intellectual tribe with his peers.  He is now in his twenties, and is pretty well adjusted - reads extensively, speaks 2 foreign languages, does trivia night weekly, and is a consultant at a bank. All this to say, there is hope in your family’s kid.[/quote]

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