Should I expect more from my 2 year old DD?

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Should a 2 year old be able to count from 1 to 10? My DD is 3 next month and keeps counting 1,2,4,6,7,8,9,4. Some of her friends have been counting to 20 for almost a year, and she's not being stubborn (on this occasion!) - she really seems unable to remember the number 3, even repeating directly after me.

She also finds it hard to remember red and green (maybe she's colour blind?) and has started putting on a lisp!!! She doesn't have to lisp, she can speak entirely normally, but she said she likes the sound of the words when she lisps

I'm begining to worry that she's peaked intellectualy and is on her way back down! Would these things make you worry?

No. She's little. She's fine.

Mine did the lisp thing, and the missing numbers out thing (I think ours was always 6), and the colour thing and countless other "getting it wrong".

You can train a two/three-year-old to do these things - doesn't mean they understand them or benefit from the knowledge in anyway.

Leave her - keep playing and reading and having fun. SHe'll do them when she's ready and when they make sense to her.

I'm not an expert on this or ever sought advice, but my four year old who can do times tables, read and write, always misses out 15 if he's counting in order, don't know why, he can recognise it and if you say what's after 14 he ill say 15 but not in sequence!
Basically what I'm trying to say is I don't think she's peaked and on her way back down!!

For what its worth the curriculum says children should be able to count to 10 at the end of the reception year, so I really wouldn't worry yet, she is only two, so long as she is happy nothing else really matters!

Hopefully someone will be along soon with something more useful/less waffley to say!!

Took me a while to write that!
Ditto what the Duchess says!

Thank you both so much! I was really begining to worry! Two does sound so very little, but when it's your two year old and you know all the things they can do, you do tend to question the things they can't and wonder why they can't. Rationally I know that they all do things at different rates, but there's not a lot of time for being rational where a 2yo is concerned. Thank you x

There seems to be alot of pressure on children these days. Let them play and they will learn at there own rate. I really wouldn't worry and no a 2 yr old shoulsn't be able to count to 10 .