Oh god - am I sucummbing to the competitive pressures of parenthood already and DD1 is only 2 and a half?
I have recently noticed a lot of her peers (from my ante natal class) know their letters and numbers... DD1 doesn't know any really. She doesn't really seem interested in learning them if I ever do have time to sit and try and "teach" them...
Two boys in particular are currently only children, and my DD2 has just turned 1. I have been quite busy with trying to manage two small children for the last year, but is this just a pathetic excuse for never making the time to sit and teach her important things like letters and numbers? I'm not very good at these things really.
I used to think I would be confident in not comparing etc, but now I am getting myself worked up about "playing and social interaction" being an important part of being a young child, vs whether she will go to school being the only child who cannot read by the time she gets there.
Just interested to know whether any children out there who are the same age, also not currently learning these things, whether some children just seem naturally pre-disposed to picking up things like this, whether those who do know their letters and numbers have had it repeated to them over and again until they know them, whether you think it's very important that I get cracking on this, so she is not at a disadvantage in the coming couple of years.
I will have to wait until next week until I can talk to the nursery about when they start expecting them to know these things...
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Catbert · 09/04/2005 10:31
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