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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of kids cant do those things at that age.  Your day care teachers are not being realistic. A child under two should not be pinging with a brush. I would do the MRI at this point, personally.[/quote]

Please don’t mitigate her concern. You may think you’re being reassuring but you’re gaslighting her into believing her very valid concerns and her knowledge about her own child are wrong. They are not. Kids can play and point and speak and move at this age. She is right to be concerned and right to be proactive. EI is critical at this age and people saying “lots of kids don’t talk or play or walk until 4 and then they’re in AP in high school” do parents and kids a disservice by convincing them to wait and see and waste that precious time. [/quote]

No one is mitigating the concern but the preschool teachers are not being developmentally appropriate to think that age can paint. [/quote]

And if you have read the OP you will note she has other standalone concerns and is only using the preschool teachers’ observations to substantiate her own worries. Holding a brush and being able to swipe it across paper is something kids this age can do. I would hand my kids paintbrushes with paint on it and let them do this at 11-12 months. No it’s not sophisticated painting but it’s a gross motor skill and he can’t do it in addition to other gross motor skills that children his age should be able to do. [/quote]

Great yours could, mine could not.  [/quote]

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