When is it normal to know colors and shapes? Numbers?

Anonymous wrote:DD is 2.5 and doesn’t know her shapes, colors, letters or numbers and seemingly has no interest in them. Because of covid she’s been out of her great daycare since March and just home with me while I work.

You can be honest with me. Is she behind?

If you want to know if she is behind, full out ASQ for her. You will see what’s expected at that age.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is 2.5 and doesn’t know her shapes, colors, letters or numbers and seemingly has no interest in them. Because of covid she’s been out of her great daycare since March and just home with me while I work.

You can be honest with me. Is she behind?

She’s sounds like she’s doing great:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/checklists/checklists_2yr.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/checklists/Checklists_3yr.pdf

Stop focusing on the meaningless BS.

I don’t think those things are meaningless but what’s interesting about those lists is that due to covid, I have no clue how DS would react to friends or being separated from us.

Yes. My DD is the same age and also behind. My older child at 2.5 knew colors before he could talk and was reading letters and numbers on license plates at 2.5 but he had a really great nanny. DD didn’t have as engaged a nanny as a baby and has been stuck home with me for the last 7 months. I’m not a teacher-type. I’m hoping she’ll catch up in preschool in January.

Anonymous wrote:DD is 2.5 and doesn’t know her shapes, colors, letters or numbers and seemingly has no interest in them. Because of covid she’s been out of her great daycare since March and just home with me while I work.

You can be honest with me. Is she behind?

She’s sounds like she’s doing great:
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/checklists/checklists_2yr.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/checklists/Checklists_3yr.pdf

Stop focusing on the meaningless BS.

I’d say she is slightly behind. But def not worrisome. Easy enough to work on colors, shapes, counting 1-10, letters through games, books, play. Make it fun and repetitive. For reference, my DD is a 4 months younger and I’d say she has average intelligence for her age. She can identify 12 colors and 8 shapes, recite 1-10 and ABCs. She can’t identify all letters and numbers yet.

You can easily incorporate it in to your day while she's with/near you. Songs help a lot and make it fun and easy to remember, too.

Yes, she’s a little behind. But nothing that can’t be fixed easily before she returns to school. Get some shapes and letter puzzles and do “color of the day” (put all toys, scarves, etc of one color in a pile. Point out the color when you’re outside). Get some books on colors. It’s not a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, those are pre k things. Calm down.

Really? Interesting...

No no definitely not. She’s 2.5! She doesn’t even need to know those til kindergarten. That’s also why she’s not interested because she’s not developmentally there yet. Focus on playing, outdoor time, connection time, reading to her a lot, and the others will all come

Honestly, those are pre k things. Calm down.

No, she’s not! My kid recently turned 3 and just recently learned colors and some shapes. He also has no interest in letters and numbers, my older kids didn’t take any interest until 4 so I’m thinking he might be the same. I thought my kids were very behind after reading some ages people listed here of when their kids knew certain things but when I’d see my kids with their peers I’d see they weren’t behind at all.

No, she's not. Truly.

I had the same concern when my 1st (of 4) was 2.75. She reads allll the time now.

Let her watch sesame street!

I would worry less about specific content, and more about her language and learning in general.

DD is 2.5 and doesn’t know her shapes, colors, letters or numbers and seemingly has no interest in them. Because of covid she’s been out of her great daycare since March and just home with me while I work.

You can be honest with me. Is she behind?