My DD1 is a lovely little girl who seems to me to be quite clever, based on what I see in playgroups and with other children of the same age. She speaks in long, complex sentences with subclauses and uses words like "unfortunately" and "similar" correctly. She is not a chatterbox, though. She doesn't do that running commentary that many 2 / 3 year olds do, though, she waits and then says what she wants, very precisely.
However, she is just not interested in the letters. At all. For months, my DH especially has been showing her letters (magnets on the fridge or foam letters in the bath or on signs or whatever) but she does not seem to recognise any. Not even the initial letter of her name.
Now, I am not worried but during a casual chat with some friends, I learnt that all their DCs can recognise letters and can pick out some of the letters of their name.
I want to feel like this is fine and that she will learn her letters at school in due course. She is in nursery at the moment and they are not at all learning letters; they are doing things like learning about farm animals, where does milk come from, where does wool come from, and she loves all of that and is taking it all in.
I want to leave her be and feel like nursery surely know what she should be learning, much more so than me (no experience as a teacher or with small kids other than my own).
But I do wonder if I am (a) doing the right thing leaving her to her own devices and (b) if this is a sign that she is behind her peers. I can't imagine trying to force her to leanr her letters at this age.