NCPmom I have considered home daycare but it makes me nervous to leave my son in a strangers home. I feel much more comfortable with a public facility. However, if I could find someone I trust to watch him, I am open to it. It might be a much better environment for him and I do think the older children would be a plus.
He is 2 years 8 months and right now his daycare has 2 to 5 all in the same class which is nice because he does talk to the 4 and 5 year olds some, but still he is much more focused on numbers, letters, reading etc than they are. It seems the older the children, the better the connection with him.
Sunday_driver, I am looking into Montessori schools for my son in the future too. Please post how they are working out for your daughter.
MotherofToddler, Occasionally he will play with toys like cars, trains appropriately but usually does not.
For example, if you give him a race car, instead of sayind "car" and driving it around on the floor, he will get excited and say "its a red car mommy with a 45 on it, then spell it "c a r" and then say the number in spanish, "cuarenta y cinco". He will go on to talk about the spelling of car or the numbers on it with excitement, but as far as the normal play, he just isn't interested.
He will pretend play as far as purposely spelling a word wrong, laughing about it and going "that's not a word mommy, thats not right, laugh again like its the funniest thing ever, and then spell it correctly. He also frequently spells words out with his hands in sign language. He jokes around a lot, but its mostly centered around his obsession with numbers, letters, and sign language. It like he's living in his own world. He even makes comments like "its just letters and numbers for me mom. I really don't know what to think about all of this.
Last edited by Isaiah09; 07/19/12 07:42 AM.
