To be not the slightest bit bothered that my 3 year old doesn't recognise any letters or numbers?

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Well actually he does know number 3... following his birthday.

I don't spend any time with him learning letters and numbers. He can count objects up to 10 and that's enough for me.

I have friends who boast about their children of similar ages (and much younger, of course!) who know their entire alphabet and can also write lots of numbers and letters.

One of my friend's sons only knows capital letters which quite frankly is ridiculous as he'll have to start learning them from scratch at school.

He probably does some letter and number work at nursery (not at pre-school til September), but if he just plays then that's fine by me.

My mum thinks I should be spending time with him encouraging him to hold a pencil properly and do lots of drawing -he's not interested in drawing!

He loves catching woodlice and building robots out of lego... and that suits me just fine!

AIBU?

Only read OP ( sorry I know that's v bad form). No idea if YABU or YANBU but wanted to encourage you that DS (also 3) ALSO only recognises the numbers 1 2 and 3 after appropriate birthday cards for him / DD and other friends.

YANBU!

My 4.5yo ds has been able to recognise his own name since he was 2 and knows some letters. He can write T and O cos they are in his name.
He recognises lots of shop names and car badges.

However, all these things are just things he has picked up on because they interest him.

He does not know the alphabet, can not count past 16 and isn't interested in any.

Thank goodness he has another year before he starts school- he just wants to play with snails and worms and diggers in the mud.

My 3yo dd (3 tomorrow) doesn't have a clue about letters/numbers etc, can't draw anything excebt scribbles and can't count past 4/5 with any consistency!

I'm not at all worried!

Children learn through play so you're doing excatly what he needs at this moment. I bet he's a happy little boy with a relaxed Mummy! x