AIBU to wonder if my 27 month old is ahead?

[Byron1990]

And if so should I be doing more to support him?
My first child was very behind in every area for years and is now about where he should be. I don’t know if it’s just the contrast or if my 27 month old is very ahead and worried I’m not doing enough to stretch and support him.

He speaks in full sentences with advanced vocabulary but also humour, tonight he said to his dad, ‘what are you wearing daddy, you look diculous (ridiculous)’ he was wearing pjs. He retells stories but put him and his brother in the place of the characters and makes them do funny things. He uses me/my/you/his/I correctly.

he can also catch a tennis ball with two hands and hit one with a racket. He builds houses and castles out of magnatiles and puts animals and figures in them. He can count objects up to 11 and also recognise groups of things by number up to three by looking at them not counting.

Does this sound like he’s far ahead and should I be doing something specific at home/out of home?

That definitely sounds ahead to me!

I wish all parents would follow this advice instead of worrying why Jason is delayed or looking into Harvard prospectus for 2 year old Jade who's so precocious.

@modgepodge Thank god not at our school. The bright dc would be bored stiff! All that was done well before YR for the bright dc. We had a much better curriculum. I do hope the ops DC is the next British champion at Wimbledon though! Hope she finds a tots tennis club.

I absolutely agree it’s too easy for bright kids, my daughter could also do most of the curriculum long before she started school.

However , my point was that is what is on the actual curriculum that schools are required to teacher for reception year, so if a child is doing it at just after 2, they’re clearly ahead. It was in response to lots of people saying it seemed normal - it’s not. Presumably if the majority of 2 year olds could achieve the reception year objectives they’d have updated the curriculum to make it harder.

He sounds advanced of his peers but not in a way that would require you to do anything. My son was reading fluently at 3 (not that MN trolls believe me but frankly I dont care) hes 19 now and intelligent but like high-average intelligence rather than rocket scientist.

He sounds lovely, I'd say at the top end of "average", meaning that he is ahead of quite a lot of his peers but is still within the realms of normal development. I'd say just do what you would with any child, play to his interests and keep his vocabulary/confidence growing as much as you can

They do tend to level out. I had a very early talker (and one pretty late).

Development just occurs at different stages for different kids. It doesn’t really mean anything and you don’t need to do anything special.

I do find it bizarre on Mumsnet where people claim their babies and toddlers are ‘advanced’. Give it a year or a few years and others will have caught up or even gone past them.

He sounds on the advanced end of normal to me.