Mew:
Your DD does sound GT from what I've read on here. My DS does the 'i can't do it thing' too.
I hear this all the time from my DD even while in the process of doing it. I think this is part of perfectionism. She doesn't want to do something until she is sure she can accomplish it perfectly.
crisc:
When a child can look at a set of objects and count each one by pointing...one
Here I equated this to simply rote counting and thinking looking at a set of objects and telling me it is 3 or 4 blocks without counting it out was counting. Boy are my checks red! I even told a friend that what she was seeing is rote counting not counting. I so need to go back and correct my mistake! Thanks for the clarification!
Dottie:
I was the same way about verbal things. I remember a friend being shocked that my firstborn recognized letters before she could rote sing the alphabet. At the time, and perhaps even now that seems to me to be the more obvious way to learn, confused .
LOL. I did this too but more b/c DD dictated this by asking what this was and what that was. She was collecting the alphabet each letter at a time. She is 28 mths old and still does not really know the stupid ABC song. She will sing a little bit of it but not really interested in it. And IMHO going the other way and having a child sing the alphabet song does not guarantee understanding their ABCs. Experts have argued that they need to know them out of order more than in order.
And we all know my denial from previous posts, such as the colors and the infamous powerpoint in kindergarten!
And lastly Kriston:
At two, I'm pretty sure the "words" don't even really have to be recognizable words to anyone but family. As long as the child uses the same set of sounds consistently applied to an object, that "counts" as a word at age 2. (By 3yo, I believe peditricians would like more than 50% to be recognizable as actual words to other people, as well as the use of 3-word sentences.)
I just want to correct this one section since my friend has visited her ped with the ped informing her that by 2 yrs the general public should be able to understand about 50% of the child's words and closer to 80% by 3. When she was telling me about the 2 word sentences and clarity I was a little shocked since I didn't think 2 yrs was the milestone cut off for this but her doctor said it was.
And thank you for the response on the question. Not living in the 'normal' world I just don't think I am the best judge of what my friend is experiencing. I tell her everytime I see her DD that I see improvements and I totally agreed with their wait and see approach. But it took me a while to get there b/c I always make the comparisons which is not fair to her DD but in my defense this was before accepting the GT definition for my own DD. I am now not so panicky about her child and the what is wrong with her game. (of course I never said that to my friend but thought it)
