Will DS fall behind?

[babychange12]

DS is 3, and was progressing really well at nursery, learned so much from there!

His nursery has kept daily zoom lessons but I find that he's not interested and runs off after 5 minutes or asks to watch something else instead so I've just given up joining zoom.

I have a 8 week old baby as well so I'm struggling to keep afloat, let alone do all the activities recommended by nursery, likepainting, phonics etc.

He plays on his lego a lot, we go for a walk every day where I try to point things out to him, we read a lot, he can recite books off by heart. At night, when I put baby to sleep, DH generally plops him in front of the tv

I just worry a bit if he's going to regress or be behind. Any ideas of what we can do? I can't wait for ds2 to be a bit older so I can put him down more but he's very clingy and though I have him in a sling 90% of the time, it's still restricts me from doing things like painting etc

No.
I don’t think so, anyway. I’ve worked with 4 year olds for years and I would honestly say that I’ve had a lot of them who haven’t been to nursery at all, and they’ve been fine once the initial settling in period is done.
Also, all other kids his age will be roughly the same! The main thing is socialising but I genuinely think that children will mostly settle into that again.
There might be some teething problems for all kids of all ages when schools go back but honestly I wouldn’t worry about lost progress.
(My view as a very nearly qualified teacher... real teachers might disagree but this is my experience!)

3 year olds are fine. They don't even really play with each other much at this stage and still tend to play alongside, so there's plenty of time. All 3 year olds are in the same position anyway.

You might as well put cbeebies on as give a 3 year old zoom lessons!

I have a just turned 3 year old and a 3 month old. I'd never even consider zoom lessons for my 3 year old. Literally all I can manage to do at the minute is get our (very small) garden set up with sand/water table, slide, watering cans etc, play bricks, colour, reading, dancing, playdoh etc. Not doing any 'learning' as such. To be fair, I know he's a little bored because I can't give him my undivided attention and he gets frustrated at times, but his imaginative play has come on loads, he just takes himself off and recreates Snow White/Peter Pan etc, we've been able to get rid of dummy which he still had at night and finally potty train him. I wouldn't have a clue how to teach phonics properly, but just hope I've been able to bring him on in other ways, and keep him feeling secure through worrying times? He's definitely also had waaay too much screen time though, but what can you do when you have a boob monster attached to you 24/7. I think just playing with them is fine at this age.

A zoom lesson for a 3 year old! Are you having a laugh?

Zoom for a three year old is just so they can see their friends and teachers face. If he lasted 5mins he was doing well! I would keep them up, even if he loses interest after 1 minute, just to say hi.

Read books, sing, say nursery rhymes and find rhyming words, paint, if you have a garden get large chalks for him to draw and give him a paint brush and water;show him how to "paint" an S, push cars together, have tea parties, count things you can see. Describe to him what you see, hear, feel on when your on walks. And then, at the end of the day when he's tired out plop him in front of the TV. Or by mid afternoon if you're like me. But always read a story at bedtime. He won't fall behind.

Just to give you some perspective OP, I didn't start school until the September after I turned five. You do not need to worry about how much your 3YO is learning.

Thanks all for the reassurance, I think it's just anxiety/guilt I feel that I'm not doing enough for him, especially with a newborn constantly on me

His imagination has also come on loads so luckily he can entertain himself a bit more

I'm not keeping up with the zoom lessons because he then just begs to watch YouTube after and it leads to the mother of all tantrums!