...But I had a question our little DS's (22 months) cognitive milestones...or rather, the order in which he masters them. (I warned you, odd question lol). Anyway, it's hard enough not comparing little DS to his PG DS5 older brother (though we try very hard not too...it helps that they are uber different in personality and interest)..but you can't help paying attention to the things your kid achieves to some extent, I think. The important thing is to try and remember that there is a normal timeline, which is not the totally skewed timeline of DS5. Ugh, I'm digressing.
OK. DS22months is able to identify most of his letters (probably just capital, not sure, he's not a performer, so it's always hard to tell exactly what he knows), at least 1-10, and and count by rote to at least that, maybe a little more, though it gets silly at some point... and maybe is starting to grasp actually counting of objects, a bit? He knows all his main shapes (triangle, circle, square, rectangle, heart, star, oval...) and is insanely verbal. Honestly, the verbal stuff is the most amazing to me (esp because DS5 didn't say a darn thing till he was 2). He's got an uncountable amount of words (like, hundreds, thousands, I don't even know), labels everything, asks questions and says 3 and 4-word phrases with ease. BUT, he doesn't know his colors. Like at all. basically, you ask him a color, and he pretty much always says blue or "there it is!" (which is cute but not helpful haha.) I don't know...I just find it kind of odd. I'm not worried about it, as he seems pretty advanced as is....I don't know if this is more of a normal than gifted trajectory or not - my normal vs gifted meter is so skewed...
The upshot of this thread is...I kind of thought colors was the thing kids learned before letters/numbers/shapes etc. So I was wondering if anyone had an experience with there DC taking longer to identify colors than the other cognitive milestones.
Keep in mind, I am not worried about it in any way - there isn't any color-blindness in the family or anything like that...plus he's still so young. I'm mostly just wondering if this particular order of learning is more common than I am thinking it is. Thanks
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