Teaching my child the alphabet

[mama2girls0]

Hi there, my child is nearly 3 and I though I might try and start teaching her the alphabet and to write her name. I'm unsure though, is it best to do it as we say it or to do it phonetically? What do schools recommend? Thanks

I never bothered, just waited till they did it at Preschool or Reception.

There are so many other fin things to do with a 2 yo

At this age, I'd only do it if she's showing an interest (DD1 did, pointing at letters and asking what they were, asking us to write her name, our names, friends' names, and we went with it). If she's interested, I believe the advice is to do it phonetically (and not to write in all caps).

Thanks both

Are they interested?

If they are then just do it as a game for fun without particularly pushing learning it.
Dd1 learnt her letters because she wanted to type "like daddy". So I put the computer in word and let her play on the keyboard. She then got cross that I wasn't "reading it right" so we spent a day where she'd say what word she wanted to write and I'd say "D for daddy" (point to D) "A for ant" (point to A) etc.
End of a day and she knew her letters upper and lower case (in upper on keyboard and lower on screen).
She loved it and we spent ages (I was pregnant at the time) with my lying on the sofa, her on the computer and her saying "bird" and me spelling it out.
She had her favourite words and soon she could spell them herself, and recognise the word in books.
There was no point I set out to teach her, she picked it up because it was a fun game.

Dd2 learnt it through a bingo/matching game that dd1 played and she wanted to join in.

Ds thought the only reason to learn letters was to type so he could find what he wanted to watch on Youtube. "Concorde" was his first word he could type on the computer... along with the complicated 10 figure password with a mixture of upper case, lower case, numbers and figures for our computer so he could get in, as we discovered one Saturday morning at 3am when we were woken by the sound of Concorde taking off. He must have watched our fingers and memorised it, which I'm not sure I could do.
Unfortunately he wasn't interested in the getting there, but the result, so he hadn't a clue what the letters were. At 15yo he'd still work totally to that philosophy, and I think he knows that an alphabet exists, but I'm not totally sure... 🤣

So do it as a game. If she learns, great. if she doesn't, then just move on to something she does find interesting.