Is it unusual for a child, not yet 2, to be able to count to 100?

[JoInScotland]

My son loves numbers. I wondered if he might be bright when he had his colours learnt at 15 months and the alphabet at 18 months, but now it's numbers numbers numbers. He counts everything you can count, and I'm worried it's becoming a bit of an obsession. How can I encourage his love of numbers, without well, "hothousing him"? I can't seem to speak to anyone about this, they all say, "Don't push him!" but believe me, he wakes up counting things, we can hear it on the baby monitor. He'll be 2 next week.

The toddler books only go up to number 10 or 12 if you're lucky. Are there good books out there for counting up to 100? I found a YouTube video yesterday that had him transfixed.... but it went on to mention 1,000 a million a billion a trillion and all the zeros sort of staggered him. I guess it was for kindergarten children?

We seem to have fallen into a gap between toddler books and kindergarten concepts?

DS is 3 and can count reliably to 60. He understands the logic of 1+n ie the number bond and has been using it to count up in 2s and 3s too.

DD could count to 1000 when she was 2, had memorised up to her 10 x tables by 3, and even though she was non-verbal and in nappies until 5 she was able to do sudoku puzzles. Maths is her favourite subject.

My son can do this too, and simple sums, but I don’t think it’s that common!

mine can count to 1000

Apparently rare then as you had to dig out a thread from 2012 to comment on😂Still waiting for OP's 12 years on update.

It is rare, it often correlates to later academic ability, but may also correlate with neurodiversity so keep an eye out for any issues. Correlation doesn't mean 100% prediction, you just need to take each child as they come and follow their interests and abilities as they develop over time.

I know this is from 12 years ago, but this screams autism to me