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What can your 3 year old count to?

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RedRobyn2021 · 19/01/2024 16:34

My DD is 3 next month and she's always getting her numbers mixed up so she will count 1,2,3,4,5 but then might say 6 OR 18 😂 I thought this might be my fault for not doing enough counting with.

We read loads and do puzzles etc but I've just not done a lot of counting with her, we sing counting songs of course but a lot of them only go up to 5

We got some orchard games for counting

What's normal?

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AmethystSparkles · 19/01/2024 21:01

Sofabum · 19/01/2024 17:58

Well in mumsnet land it's 3,0145,244

But in reality it was 20 but learnt like a song. No idea what 15 actually meant in terms of number of things.

It'll come. I remember stressing that my DC1 got confused with colours and trying to hot house her one week so it sunk in. Now I realise I was being a complete fool, it would be very unlikely she would enter the adult world or even school without knowing what blue was!

It was, but he was (and is) autistic 🤣

roarrfeckingroar · 19/01/2024 21:14
  1. He forgets what comes next.
TheBirdintheCave · 19/01/2024 23:30

Only to 20 (and we still get 'eleventeen' a lot 😂) but we're working on letter recognition and small number addition and association now (via Snakes and Ladders and Orchard toys games) instead.

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aardonpardonwenttothegarden · 19/01/2024 23:40

Very insightful thread. My DS will also turn 3 next month. He counts to 20 but forgets 15 often.

He also loves rockets, we've shown him a few countdown videos and he can count down from 10 to 0 and lift off! 😂

justanothermanicmonday1 · 19/01/2024 23:41

My almost 2 year old can count to ten but again as PP said often skips 4 & also 10😂

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