Not Interested

Hi All

I am here today asking help for my 2.6 year old that is not interested in learning. He loves to look at books, watch educational youtube videos etc, but does NOT want to know any colours, letters, shapes. He has been going to a daycare since 9months and I was under the assumption that they teach and asses whether my boy knows his basics but I may be wrong. I only recently found out that he doesn’t know any of colours, shapes, letters. He only knows songs from memory, but doesn’t recognise any of them. We have been trying to teach him but he calls everything green, and this week its blue. So I tried teaching him letters, only A, B and C. he won’t remember them after moving from letter A to B. I really don’t know what to do? He is addicted to youtube videos of were going on lion hunt, bear hunt, wheels on the bus etc and I am limiting all of these. I know this should have never been started but an unfortunate habit that is hard to break.

I have heard from a friend that their daughter goes to Porse at home care, its expensive but she knows all of her colours, numbers and letters. The best part is that she recognises all of them. I want my son to be able to know these basics and have the right attitude for learning.

So today I am here asking you whether I need to place my child in different care? Porse, kindergarten or do something different? Help me mould my boys future education.

Thanks

Like Laz says, i wouldn't be worried at all. The daycare/kindy teachers will approach you if they suspect any issues and you should maybe talk to them about your expectations. But at his age its totally normal not to know numbers, colours etc. Its much better that his learning is child focussed -so if he has an interest then work with that.. eg my son is obsessed with earth moving equipment so we do stuff like count diggers on a page, or line his toys up in size order, or divide into types (eg cars, trucks, diggers)... so he is slowly learning maths and numbers (he is 3.5 and still gets numbers mixed up when counting) but more importantly he is having fun.