Should I be preparing 3yo DS for school?

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DS is 3 and a half. He's at nursery and has been for over a year, recently went up to 30hrs.

He will be starting school in September this year. I also have 1yo at home so it gets a bit busy with both of them.

My AIBU is that I haven't really done much recently in terms of teaching him basic things like the Alphabet/ numbers/days of the week And I wonder if I should start focusing on things like that a bit more to help him a little once he starts school?

We're working on going to the toilet on his own and he's usually getting dressed on his own/put own shoes on and be more independent in that way.

What are good skills/ what should I be teaching him and what is an average child expected to know once they start school?

Don't teach anything unless you are 100% sure you are doing it correctly.

This.

My friend was dead chuffed that her son knew all his letters before starting school, having learnt them watching Countdown. Except all the letters on that programme are capital letters . . .

Focus on putting on coats, clothes and toileting, sitting and listening to instructions THOSE skills will stop them getting lost in a mass of children all wanting help/ not knowing what is going on.
Certainly point out letters and encourage recogniton / counting objects or copying own name. When your child inevitably points out letters and words and numbers they know then praise and use that to help them expand on what they have picked up. I am surprised if you are using childcare that they haven't already started though, maybe ask them to look at their record.

Toileting
Dress/undress including coat, shoes and socks
Following multilevel instructions - hang you coat up, wash your hands and sit down
Turn taking
Recognise name

Surely you both own the property, you own it 50 percent each. It doesn't matter if he doesn't live there. You need legal advice. You need to either sell it & split half each. Or one of you guys out the other. You may receive a bigger percentage if you are housing the children. Do you both have pensions, savings, this all needs to be part of the divorce surely ?

Sorry wrong thread

I love wrong thread posts