What age did your child start to count?

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Dd2 has been roughing counting for a few months now, i'm just wondering if she is unusal for her age. My dd1 was about 3 when she learnt to count.

TIA

ds is 2.4 and is starting to count accurately/with understanding, if a manageable number (6 or 7 or so - sometimes up to 11, mainly thanks to 'One Fish Two Fish' ). After that it all unravels a bit - 'thirteen, sixteen, seven-twenty...'

I've got a question since were on the topic of development. What age roughly does a child start to draw simple pictures? Like a circle with 2 legs and some hair or something?

Not yet, at least in ds's case he does do wonderful abstract impressions of movement, though (scribbles round and round on a page and declares it a 'train' )

oh god, lorna, I dunno

about 4 months or so?

If they are not drawing in a variety of styles (cubist, impressionist and pointallism at the VERY least) by around 14 months-seriously, do consider specialist help.

filly!

lorna dd is 2.11 and can scribble and call it a lion/bear/mummy/daddy/trumpet/scarecrow!

god knows when they acctually draw!

roughly 3 i think for drawing faces...?

Oh, and my 13 month old has definitely mastered pointallism

DD1 is 20mths and can count to 10 and has been for a couple of months, DS was around the same age and actually recognised the numbers by 22mths

think ds just grasped pictures in the past yr, he is 4 next month, tis very cute when he draws a face with ears and eyes etc

He was about 2.5, BUT could quite possibly count before, just couldn't say the words.

TBH, I can't really remember

omg escapefrom, that is EXACTLY the problem that both my kids have, all the time!

I am CONVINCED that ds understands rudmentary calculus, but just can't pronounce "integration"

Lol..just wondered. Ds came home from nursery with a picture the other day, it was title My rainbow picture, I said this is a lovely rainbow and he pointed at the picture and said peppa pig. There was a pink circles one inside the other so I can kind of see where he's comming from with that one lol.

As for counting ds is 2 (birthday was yesterday) he can count to 3 but like everyone else says he has no idea why he's counting to 3.

Another question for you how about recongnising girl and boy? That must be a tricky one to learn.

stop mocking my perfect issue I am glad you understand, fillyjonk

girl and boy is easy

girls wear pink and giggle in high voices

boys wear blue and are "trouble"

if this is not sinking is as quickly as it should, I suggest a quick trip to mothercare

lol fillyjonk! I'm always amazed at how people can remember these things. My two are 8 and 7 now, and I have no idea when they did anything. I know what they are getting to grips with now, but that's about it! On a note of caution my ds picked up letters very early, and could identify them in street signs etc etc, well before most of his peers but he is actually dyslexic and finds reading difficult. The letters were to do with him being generally observant, and having a penchant for collecting things (not bad qualities, just not what you might imagine). dd on the other hand was never very interested in alphabet books, and I wondered about her, but she is regarded as fantastic as pretty much everything at school (this may be because she always helps the teacher, and nothing to do with her intelligence of course...)

I think you should just celebrate their acheivements, whatever they are, and not read too much into them.

Lol fillyjonk. Everything to ds is baby boy. A small cat is a baby boy when he hugs me he says aaw baby boy. I find it particularly amusing when ds will call an older child baby boy in a rather high pitched slightly patronising tone.

DD1 (just 2) can tell me when she has 2 of something but if I ask her to count anything she says "Three, five, hiding two". Very odd.

Nooka I totally agree. My questions are merely just out of interest. When ds was first born I was in such a rush for him to move on to the next thing all the time...Oh he'll be crawling soon, walking..ect..ect. Now I don't want him to grow up lol.
Alot of my friends are quite judgmental on my sons development. They think he's "a bit babyish for his age, he doesn't really talk much does he" well he does I'm just the only one that understands him .

Oh I agree. It's impossible not to compare, and in the nature of parenting to worry. It just passes so quickly that it doesn't take long before you are wondering what it is that you were worrying about. ds's school were convinced he was autistic not that long ago, and it was interesting that dh and I had very different recollections of his milestones when we had to give them to the paediatrician. So I always take other people's accounts of when their children did things with a slight pinch of salt (except for the ones that keep baby book type accounts).

Going by their reaction when I tell them to take ONE biscuit, I'd say at five and seven, they're pretty much damned to a life of innumeracy.

Food is also quite a motivator in dd's counting. I've forgotten when she started rote counting exactly but counting objects up to 5 came around 20 mo - now at 26 mo she can get up to 10 but sometimes there are detours.

She knows all the letters when she sees them (from a computer game) but doesn't know the alphabet as a series. She's only just starting to sing a couple of words here and there so the alphabet song would be a bit challenging. When did your dc's start to sing recognisable verses of anything?

She started drawing recognisable stuff at 18 mo and draws or paintes faces and stuff as well as a lot of scribbly stuff. We were astonished and look forward to her first major exhibition by preschool and hope to retire from the profits soon after.

She judges boys and girls mainly by hair length it seems although it was not that long ago that she thought she was a boy (she mainly mixes with boys - but now the shaggier haired ones are 'girls'). She also seems to think that boys' hats are blue - must be from nursery. Jill

I can remember being about 6 or 7 and asking my mum how you can tell if a womans a woman if she has short hair and doesn't wear high heels! So I obviously judged the difference in woman and men with hair length and shoes at seven!!..