Is my toddler colour blind?

[Bbrdakija]

My toddler is 2 years and 9months old. Everytime i ask him what color is this?(refering to red or yellow) he always say its green! This happens everyday after I repeatedly teach him that red is red and yellow is yellow and not green. He can identify green correctly and the rest of the colours such as blue, white black orange purple.

Not not necessarily, colour vision isn't completely formed until 10. So plenty of time for it to develop normally.

That said about 1 in 12 in males have colour vision deficiencies, it's rare in girls/women.

You could get an idea by showing him a green square and a red square and then producing more red and green squares to see if he can sort them into colour piles. Or whatever colour you want to check.

It was about this age I realised my son had a problem with recognising red. When he was eventually tested by a specialist it was confirmed he can't distinguish and sees all red and green as a pooey mud colour!

I would say he is too young to know tbh. My dh is colourblind but it wasnt fully diagnosed till he was in school. Same with his younger brother. My dh is red/green colour blind so for instance my dh gets red/greens mixed up blues/ purples reds/browns etc. He can see most colours but not in the way I can so he can't always differentiate. Ask your health visitor or optician if you are worried.

Probably not. That's quite young to know colours. It's quite common for kids that age to call everything a particular colour. Once he starts school and it's still an issue, then it might be worth looking into.

It's quite young to name colours but it's not too young too be a me to sort colours. That's why I suggested trying that. If the child can recognise that two items are the same colour and that another item is a different colour that could start to give an indication.

Im desperate for an advise. I am Nepalese and my husband is english. We are going to Nepal for 3 weeks so that my parents will see their 2 grandchildren. However my husband thinks that my mother doesnt like him around and he prefers to “stay out of the way”. My mother is not good with english and finds it difficult to understand english accent. But that doesnt mean that she dislikes my husband. Shes just really shy and probably embarrassed. I kept telling my husband that but it doesnt seem to work. Also while in Nepal were gonna stay in my parents house for 3 weeks. So im gonna have to put up with him just moaning about everything. I dont want them to dislike each other. Just need advise on the best way to deal with it as it is just stressing me out. Also i dont want this to affect our marriage.

@Itsveryshiny - you need to start your own thread for advice on your issue.

It doesnt take until you are 10 to form colour vision. However you can develop colour vision problems later in life, you can also have them birth

I'm an early years professional, currently working with two year olds. This is so, so normal. It takes time to learn and most get either red and green, or blue and yellow muddled. If he's still muddling then in a year then I'd get his eyes looked at, but until then just continue with repetition and introducing just two colours at a time when teaching him. I honestly wouldn't worry.

I imagine it’s difficult to diagnose at this age, with DD1 I suspected she maybe colourblind around 5 but waited till she was 6 to give myself a year to see how she did as everyone told me it’s rare in girls, my brother is also colourblind though so I told opticians when she was 6 of my concerns and they tested her and yes she is colourblind doesn’t effect her at all nor my brother he’s even learnt when he sees a shade of colour what colour everyone else is seeing so never needs correcting anymore