Concepts of time

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When do they start to get it?

Dd is 3.7 and starts every other conversation with 'yesterday', 'last week' etc and is, predictably, never right. Well, she is, in as much as she's talking about stuff that happened in the past.

But when do they get that last week happened longer ago than yesterday?

This is a general pondering btw, am not preparing to lose sleep over it

Not sure....but DD2 is 5 and still can't quite grasp it....she knows "tommorrow" and yesterday but last week? No way.

Twenty years a TA, and Yes, they can't comprehend it till maybe 6 or 7, even then only a hazy idea. Which makes a nonsense of learning Romans or Victorians in Yr2 or 3 I always think.

Anymore than most adults REALLY understand infinity, or '3 to the power 12' light years! (I just made that up, but I guess you get the idea.)

Happy New Year!

Oh good, so at least three more years of getting away with 'another day' then?

Ferguson, you remind me of the holiday my parents took me and my brother on years ago to Northern France. We did loads of sightseeing, lots of historical trips, castles, poppy fields, ww2 bunkers etc. We were half way round the Bayeux Tapestry when dbro asks 'which one was Hitler?'

History overload... He was about 8!

Happy new year!