what age can they count and know colours?

[DebitheScot]

At what ages did your lo's learn to count and know their colours?

Yesterday my ds counted to 9 while walking down stairs (he then said 12 instead of 10 and announced that there was 12 stairs). He often does this as well as counting how many cars/grapes or whatever there is. he doesn't always get it right but is pretty good.

He also knows loads of colours including more unusal ones like pruple, grey, brown. Sometimes gets green and blue the wrong way round but the rest he virtually always gets right.

He also knows quite a few shapes.

I haven't made a big concious effort to teach him, he just seems to pick things up really quickly.

Don't want to sound like I'm showing off (although I suppose I am a wee bit ), just wondering what age was seen as 'the norm' for these things. He is 22 months.

DD is 2.5 and she counts up to 4 in Turkish, and up to 3 in English and French. She also knows most colors in Fr, Tr, and Eng.

Can't say she is 'the norm', though. The whole trilinguality thing has royally confused her and her language skills are behind her peers.

I think reciting numbers is quite common at this stage (although if he's actually counting that there are 12, that's unusual).

I think colours are meant to be around now also, but DD has known quite a number (well, boo, geen, lellow, back, bown, gay, purpull, aunge and PINK!) since being around 14 or 15 months. I think that's just becuase we hassled her so much on it.

my 25mo doesn't speak so I have no idea if he can count (actually he can count to 2 at least, he just can't verbalise it) and I am pretty sure he doesn't know colours.

my DS's speech is far too poor at 27 months to know. though he does line his cars up in colour grouping and he knows that after 1 is "more". Does that count?

Ds knows the number 2 and blue. He says 'doo-a bah' which means two bikes for anything more than one bike, or 'boo-a bah' to mean blue bike (he gets that wrong fairly often too). He's a bit rubbish tbh, but I think he's brilliant.

ds1 was reciting numbers up to 13 at that stage (because we have 13 stairs) and was managing most colours (although not getting it right every time) but only started really counting at about Christmas when he was 2.8. He still says that white is yellow but if you ask him a second time he says "no WHITE! Silly silly me!" I don't want him to be able to do white and yellow because its so cute!

ds could count to about 12 at that age, and actually recognise the numbers too. He also knew all his colours. DD is 22 months though and can say different numbers but doesnt have a clue what order they go

Depends how much you are coaching them.

I know a competitive mum who was thrilled that her ds was reciting the names of All Known Dinosaurs at x months old. And then a year later she was embarrassed because he was still obsessed with reciting the names of All Known Dinosaurs.

With hindsight the small details of what knowledge and when doesn't seem so important.

my ds can count up to 20 in numbers and count out objects also to 20

he knows all colours including turquoise

he is speech delayed but loved his thomas laptop that taught letters and numbers and learnt that way

his dad tauht him turquoise from his blocks

he knows all alphabet and recognises all of alphabet

now we are mastering speech

all children learn different things at different rates

Tink counts when she has her inhalers she managed to 8 and you get some random numbers after that to 10, she's 19 months. We have a spare inhaler that we let her play with because it gets her used to it and she will count when she plays with it. I also do 1, 2, 3 games like dropping or swinging her and she always counts with me. Yesterday she was saying "1, 2 raaaagh!" to "scare" me.

Mum has one of those VTech shape sorter rockets at hers and Tink will press the buttons and say the colours as she does, she's knows the primary colours and green.

I think if you are doing counting/ colour play with them a lot they pick it up really quick.

DS is 2 and a half he can count to about 5 and he knows most of his colours. It helps him having a fascination with cars so we've been car colour spotting for some time now

My dd2 is close in age to yours she is 20 months. She is just starting to say colours ie linking words. red cup, blue cup etc.

I have never heard her say numbers though.

DD1 seemed to learn to count to 20 very early, but wasn't really counting just reciting. Didn't get much beyond that for ages. Not sure exact age probably around 2.

DD could count and recognise numbers up to 20 at about 2 1/2 colours at 2

DS cant talk yet at 2 so no Idea but cant do colours cos if I say give me the Blue car etc he has not clue

All children are different thats what makes them all so special

DS (23 months) thinks the number after 9 is 'BOOM!'. Too much counting down to the spaceship blasting off i think...

My DD (22 months) was counting/reciting numbers but now has decided that numbers go '1, 5, 4, 9!' - no more, no fewer, never in any different order!

(and no, it's not DH's or my PIN!)

dd3 could count to 10 at 18 months and knew all her colours inc whether it was light blue or dark blue and gold, silver etc when she was 20 months or so. She also knew her shapes, animals and sounds etc
The girl hasn't stopped talking since she first started..

Oh and at 22 months ifyou pointed to any of the 28 characters o the back of her Thomas the Tank Engine books she would tell you their name and where they worked/what they did

'Percy - he takes the mail'
Gordon- he puls the express'
'Duncan - he works in the quarry'

dd1 was just like this but dd2 could hardly speak understandable words at 21/2

Well, at 4.5 months, my dd can recite her three times table and quote Shakespeare!
Only joking (obviously). Dropdeadfred - that's pretty amazing. My point it, you're dead impressed with what your child can do regardless of whether they're quick or not. I was so proud that at 18 months, when asked 'what noise does Daddy's bottom make?' my ds would blow a big raspberry!

Exactly Phlossie - we were in fits years ago when dd1 would say (in reposnse to being asked her name)
'My name is Michael Caine'..in a really funny voice..she was only 2...lol