He’s just turned 3 and he’s been obsessed with letters and numbers for a while, but mostly letters.
He loves the TV programme on CBeebies Alphablocks.
He picked up a magazine yesterday which said ‘Merry and Bright’ on the front. He said “that says Merry and” I couldn’t quite believe it.
He writes his name perfectly too.
He won’t play with cars, trains or anything imaginary, I try to encourage him to play with the Lego or his brio track, he’ll do it for a couple of mins, then go back to making words out of his wooden letters and writing on his magna doodle.
His favourite book at bedtime at the moment is a book my parents bought as a bit of a ‘laugh’ as my partner is a physics teacher. It’s ABC of physics for babies and kids.
He wants it read to him before bed every night and during the daytime too now.
We try and read other books in- between like normal story books too.
This morning he was drawing on his magna doodle/etch a sketch thing and I said “what are you drawing?” He said “that’s quantum theory” then later he says “I’m writing Photon” I looked and he’d spelt it correctly. Then he wanted to draw Isaac Newton.
It’s quite funny in a way, but I’m a little bit worried. Is this normal behaviour for a just turned 3 year old? Other kids his age are playing with paw patrol toys, watching coco melon or whatever it’s called (to be fair we never watched that in our house). But he does like Hey Duggee.
He’s very sociable and plays with other children, likes running around the playground, going on the slide etc and that kind of thing.
But there’s something bothering me about how he is…I don’t know who I should talk to.
My DP doesn’t think there’s an issue, he just says he’s going to be clever. (My DP has a maths and physics brain and is a physics teacher, he was always brainy).
But I think it’s the lack of imaginative play that’s concerning me, I’ve worked in EYFS many years so I know that’s a big of a red flag, but it’s hard to work out when it’s your own child.
His speech is really good and everyone comments on it when we’re out and about, thinking he’s more of a four year old. Doesn’t help that he’s quite tall too!
He’s not potty trained yet though…go figure!