Colour Blindness in 2 year old

[roberta3]

DS3 is 2 years 8 months and has known all his colours for months. However, I suspect he is red/green colour blind.
Should I correct him when he gets his colours the wrong way round? I used to but now if he says look at the green letterbox I just agree cos I don't want to sound like I'm going on at him all the time.

My ds always got red and green muddled.
The health visitor got him to sort bricks into piles of the same colour. He put red in one pile and green in another, so it was just the name he was muddling rather than the colour IYSWIM.
Maybe worth a try.

He is still very young, my dd is nearly three and only now just learning colours, and she regularly gets them mixed up. I always correct her if she is wrong(in a nice way) otherwise she will be more confused.

You could take him to the opticians if you are still concerned he is colour blind.

are you or are either of your parents colour blind?, If you know a bit about your families history then you may be able to work out if he is or not. It will have come from your side of the family not Dads.

Both of my children got red and green mixed up when they were about 1 or 2.
Neither are colour blind...i just always assumed it was something about how we see and learn those 2 colours.
A few months down the line and they suddenly seemed to get them sorted

Unless your dad is red-green colourblind, or some other male relatives on your side, the chance of your DS being colourblind are pretty low.

The idea of getting him to sort out colours is good. I did find a preschool colourblindness test somewhere, but can't find it now.

My DS1 is colourblind. My DS2 might be. It doesn't make much difference. I haven't bothered taking DS1 to the optician about it because they can't do anything about it, iyswim.

Mostly men are colourblind but some women too (unusual but it does happen if they have both recessive x chromosomes). Her mother may carry the recessive x and never show colour blindness, so the problem is you would as NQC say have to check if any males on your side have colour blindness