I would like to know if this is normal 1.5 yr old behavior or not, and what your experience was with your kids and puzzles.
DD is almost 18 months. She mastered knob / chunky puzzles a while ago and doesn't have the fine motor yet for jigsaw (she gets mad at them).
I don't know if this is a skill that developed because of how puzzle obsessed she is (and I helped by bringing rather a lot home)....
but lately she's been seeing black silhouettes of complex shapes and she knows just what they are. The other day she saw the silhouette of an owl and immediately signed owl. Yesterday, she picked up this fake spy ID card that fell out of a children's spy book we have. It had a small black silhouette of a man's head and shoulders, like a license picture.
She signed "man" and then pointed to her ear and then pointed to the barely perceptible curve on the side of his head where his ears should be. I asked where his nose was and she touched her nose and pointed to the center of his face.
She can do most of the chunky and knob shapes, ABC, and number puzzles we have that don't have any images underneath, but still...
We only have signs for ball and star and she'll point out shapes resembling those everywhere we go. (Not to mention she knows stars aren't always shaped like that. She asked if my diamond earrings and all the freckles on my arm were like stars.) She bit a piece of her banana off a few weeks ago and signed "chair" over and over and pointed at it. It did, indeed, look like a chair.
(Regardless of whether or not this is developmentally on target, I'd love to Google for more information on this stuff. Reading about children and brain development is a sometimes hobby of mine right now lol. Would I be searching for "abstract thinking" or something else?)
Thoughts and experiences?
Last edited by islandofapples; 05/21/12 07:56 PM.
