To think most nearly 3 year olds would be able to answer this?

My child did “hospitals” at nursery and his comprehension is all over the place. One moment he’ll say he’ll need a sticker (plaster) for his leg when there nothing wrong with it and next he’ll be kissing his snotty finger better. I normally have to guess what’s wrong tbh. Are you cold? No. Do you want a drink? No. Are you hungry? <slow nod>.

DS is 3, talks in full sentences, huge vocabulary, but he can’t tell me anything about his day as he’s forgotten it by the time he gets home. You need to ask him questions in the moment.

Totally normal… my 3yo tells me at least three girls in his class are called “poopy” because he doesn’t know their names.

He tells me absolutely nothing about his day. Sometimes they don’t want to be interrogated

Are you sure he didn’t mean he played with cars at nursery?

The out of context stuff does sound like maybe he isn’t understanding the question/concept and is just saying any word because he knows you expect an answer.

What do nursery think? I wouldn’t be panicking at this stage, just keeping an eye on it.

There's a lot of variation at that age though, most children will have good speech by 3.5 but at 2 some aren't there yet.. Is your son more of an active child - the ones who are good at physical things can be slower with speech and vice versa

When my DD was nearly 4 she said her tummy hurt. Turned out she had a chest infection.

I would expect a conversation but I wouldn't expect total understanding or much memory at that age. Your first question may have been too long from when the bite happened to remember and for the second "unwell" seems a little complex in terms of language. Anecdotal from me though - I would ask nursery.

@OP Have you had his hearing checked?? does he answer to his name? if not i'd first see the GP.

I don’t think these two examples are something to worry about at this age as they are both quite abstract concepts. One is asking him about something that happened hours ago. He will have forgotten all about it. Explaining how they feel / what feels bad / hurts etc is a difficult thing to explain.

Questions like “what would you like to eat?” “Who is your best friend” “what colour is this etc” are age appropriate questions he should be able to answer.

I mean mine talks non stop in full sentences. But if you asked him who bit him on his shoulder 2 hours ago at nursery he would probably say ‘yeah’ rather than a name

The first one is tricky as he may not remember if it was a while ago.

The second one, my 2 year old will often say if he's poorly or has a sore leg or whatever but sometimes he won't.

The kinds of things he will reliably answer would be things like what do you want to do today or which toy do you want to play with.

He can have a conversation about the weather or about a tractor he can see or concrete things but would be hit and miss with more abstract topics. He's out just 2 but I think his speech is good for his age.

My son could answer that but often won't answer questions like that.

My daughter is 2y9m and would be able to answer those questions. She can hold a conversation and talks in full sentences. It does really vary among her friends though- maybe ask nursery what they think as they'll have a lot of experience of the typical range for this age.

I can’t with my 3 year old.

If he falls over say a toy at home and hurts himself he might say what happened, but if it happened at nursery he would forget by the time I asked him.

He was ill with temperature this week. Obviously had headache or earache but just cried when I asked him where, and calmed down after calpol. If he hurt knee falling he could show where