Should i be teaching letters to my DD aged 3.2?

[exasperatedmummy]

My DD started playschool last week, and my friends little boy recognised his name. I was . I haven't really started to teach letters to DD at all. We have a couple of jigsaws with letters on but thats that. She does have a slight speech delay but i think she is doing OK now, she speaks in fairly complex sentences although her words aren't clear. Seeing MMLL thread made me think that perhaps i should be teaching this. I feel a bit like I have let her down - i don't want to push things though. We play lots together although its mostly, puzzles, crafts or out and about at the swings. She loves me to read to her and i think DP must be on book number 5 putting her to bed.

Have i missed the boat here?

I am going to teach dses to read before they start school, but only because they are bilingual, we live in Germany and they won't start school until they are 6 (nearly 6 1/2 in ds1's case). I'm only going to teach them in English. They may well not go to bilingual school and their German will be at an advatnage day-to-day anyway. AND I am not going to push it if they aren't interested.

ds1 is 3.5. I read to him loads and he looks at and we chat about letters/words in books, he enjoys trying to recognise letters, we have alphabet stamps I use to make cards etc. and he likes watching me use them and asking about the letters. That's all. It's fun.

each to their own

DS1 knew all his letters before he could speak - (c. 2yrs was late to talk ) He could point to them when asked. Nothing to do with me, he loved Countdown on the Telly and liked to play at being Carol. Consonant was one of his first words (yes he's still a bit odd TBH)

At the time I didn't realise how unusual this was and expected DS2 to pick them up quickly too. He is now in yr1 and just about knows them all. The more practice (pressure) I do, the less he seems to take on, so I would say be completely lead by your child. They all get it in the end.