knowing their colours???

[Carameli]

When did your child definitely know the different colours. My dd is 22mths and dh is getting a bit obsessed about her knowing them, so I just wondered what others had found.

Also with numbers, she refuses point blank to start at '1' when counting her blocks. I think some of this may also be that he tries to make a big point about her starting at '1'. I've seen her smile when she knows he is getting frustrated.....

dd is 2yr 10m and can name some colours but doesn't always know what they are, she likes to say yellow and green. She knows all her numbers too but can't count, unless she uses a code that I don't know and goes 1, 6, 2, 5, 8, 9, 2, 3, 5.

ds2 is 20m and can say red, but again hasn't a clue what that means.

I wouldn't worry at all, I know some 4 and 5 yr olds who only know a few colours like red, blue, yellow, green and can't tell the difference between purple, orange, brown etc.

dd (21 months) does know some colours - red means stop, yellow means get ready, green means go. We go through the list every time we stop at the traffic lights and it gets a bit wearing. I dont force her to learn but just point out colours in passing e.g. a green bus, yellow car, etc, etc and she picks it up well. She also has a Kipper book that has different colours e.g. a black shadow, a purple monster, etc and she knows most of them too - thats not hothousing, thats just her being a smartie pants!!

my dd is 22 months and knows most colours and has done since she was about 12 months. Also knows most letters of the alphabet (dont ask me how!). However her vocabulary is very limited at the moment to ta, bye, mom, dad, nice. She doe seem to be progressing on that front but it seems to me some talk early, some walk early, some now colour early! Each to their own!!

Juts wanted to say that some kids do just pick it up alone, and its not all parents pushing... despite what some posters might want to make you think. My DD can recite her numbers (1 to 10, but misses out 5) and I can hand on heart say I've not (consciously) taught her a single number. I was shocked when I first heard her recite to three. Turns out at nursery, they count the children in and out of the room at playtime, and my DD picked it up from there! So please, when someone's kids do do things, its not necessarily because the parents are overbearing / hot house / are bad pushy parents but just because that is the way the child is!!

sorry, got called away yesterday, thanks for all these comments, makes me fell good

I can't remember with ds1 .

Ds2 is just 2 and currently calls all colours "poo".

DD (3.5) recognised colours at about 26 months and now counts to ten fairly well but we have never pushed her to learn anything we just have fun. is your DH an over achiever? He needs to step back a bit and let her pick it all up at her own pace. IMO the more we push our children the more stubborn they get about it all, if we push them too much too soon they loose interest.

she doesn't take much notice of him so I am not worried about her, she just gets on with it or walks away and plays with something else, its funny to watch. I have told him what I have found out so now he believes she should just be left to decide her own pace and we can just encourage her along but not to get stressed over it.

you micht be interested in this article from today's sunday times

its about the importance of 'quiet time' in children's development .. obviously for older children but I think there's some lessons to be learned for babies and toddlers

hope its interesting for you

What a sensible article. Phew.

lol crescent, most of the greatest minds are comic fans!

Have previously boasted about dd achievements, she can count to twelve, she doesn't understand she is two years old and just wants to be bigger now! She knows her colours including blue, and has expressed a wish to drive a big blue digger we pass daily on the way to nursery, so i'm not sure what the driver is going to say, when i have to agree that she is bigger and can put off the visit no longer. Maybe she can drive a digger, we won't know till i try it!!! lol