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  • Nairn-1

    Hey Dads, past and present... well, not past, but having had a wee one in the past. er.. that's not a good start.

    Anyway.

    Any recommendations for how best to teach my kid numbers and letters? She's bright in many ways, but I'm increasingly worried that she might also be a total moron. She seems to really hate the number 13, and consistently misses it out for some reason. Probably just to annoy me. She selectively recognises letters, but othertimes not. Again - perhaps she's just messing with me.

    Perhaps I'm entirely misjudging how far along a <4 year old should be?

    Asian kids are starting their dissertations at 4 is all.

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    • Dont worry about it. All kids are different, My son is 4.5 he learned how to write his name and counting up to 20. I dont know how, he just started school andBeeswax
    • probably behind a lot of kids but he's learning at his own pace. Don't ever compare, I bet she's amazing in her own way.Beeswax
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    • My son (5 now) skipped one particular number all the time, can't remember which one. He's got it down now, but I can't remember when he got it right.mg33
    • Nairn, as said above each kid is different and each has their own things they are brilliant at. My wife is chinese so she's always comparing our kids to othermicrokorg
    • asian kids that are reading in multiple languages, playing piano, playing chess etc. But fuck that - those kids don't have half the creativity and imaginationmicrokorg
    • our kids do. Or the same sense of daring and adventure.
      When they get to school it's all a level playing ground and they soak up learning like a sponge      microkorg
    • Our 5yo (started school this summer) is learning to read/write and has been blowing me away with little sentences she's trying to writemicrokorg
    • literally went from zero to very competent in a couple of weeks.microkorg
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