I have a son who turned 3 In July and he can count but sometimes forgets numbers so he might say 1,2,34,6,7,8,9,12 for example but mainly misses out 5 . His dad thinks he is behind because he can't do it right every single time and because of that he has become very strict with our son and makes him do numbers every day , tells him he won't get Christmas presents if he can't count from 1 to 5 three times in a row and basiacally takes all the fun out of learning . I am not concerned in the slightest because his nursery teacher tells me he is doing just fine.
He has always been very advanced with certain things like he learnt to ride a bike without stabilisers aged 2 and he can swim without arm bands but he was a slow talker and never really said numbers or colours etc until about 6 months ago .
His dad says that I'm letting him fall behind but I really just dont think it's a huge deal and I think at his age learning should be fun so I'll sing number songs and dance with him or count his cars or something like that but I don't really sit him down and say count to 10 or do number books etc , am I wrong ?