God I hate the term backwards.
Dd is just 3 and unfortunately (for her) has a cousin who is a few weeks younger and seemingly super super bright.
Consequently MiL is comparing the two of them and referring to my dd as ‘backwards’. She told her she’d ‘never do any good at school’.
I also have a ds but he is 10 and although he’s bright in a lot of ways he struggles socially. He is probably academically brighter than dd.
Dd isn’t in preschool yet and MiL is obsessed with her going, although her cousin doesn’t go either so she can ‘catch up’.
Dd can:
Count by rote to 12
Touch count to 6
Recognise numbers 1-8
Recognise over half letter sounds
Write simple letters like t, l, i, o etc and will role play at writing where she writes strings of the letters and tells you what they are supposed to say.
Knows shapes, colours
Huge imagination - plays super imaginatively and that is really what she wants to do.
Extremely chatty and will talk about yesterday, today and tomorrow and events which happened over a year ago so nothing wrong with her memory.
She can colour in the lines but isn’t very interested in it, nor in drawing. Imaginary play is her thing and she will do that for hours. Dolls houses, tiny figures, that sort of thing. Not very interested in building things either.
I think she is fine overall, but it’s bothering me that she is compared so unfavourably. It’s not her fault she’s average and her cousin is Einstein!
She’s ok, isn’t she?