What does your 2.5 year old know?

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My son was born May 2017 and I feel like he’s a little behind. He has never been in daycare, and what he’s learned is from me and dad teaching him mostly. He has learned a few things from books and tv as well.
He can’t count on his own yet.
He can say his ABCs If I say them first he can just repeat them. He does do an ABC puzzle and knows the shapes of the letters and where they go. He knows over 200 words.
He can speak in 2-3 word sentences.
He knows his colors.
He knows his shapes.
He can tell me what he wants for breakfast lunch and dinner.
He can undress himself.
He knows his name and his sisters name.
He can draw a circle and a line.
He knows his age.
He knows which house is ours.
He knows the difference between dump trucks, cars, motorcycles, trains, planes, helicopters, ambulance, fire trucks, and the police.
He knows which car is mine and dads in a parking lot.
I just see so many May babies born around the same time as him saying full on sentences and knowing their ABCs and even counting to 10. If your child knows their numbers and ABCs what helped them learn it?

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I think your child sounds absolutely fine and right on track :) remb they all learn at different rates. My son has just been discharged from his specialist pediatrician because they reckon that by the time he is 4 he should have caught up as that's when they all catch up and are on par with each other. My son is behind in motor skill development. He still falls over all the time! Just the other day a mother came up to me and asked if my son had a disability because her daughter does and he reminds her of her daughter the way he is so clumsy. I wasnt offended I just know my son is clumsy for his age but by the time all our kids are 4/5 you'll have no idea who talked better or who walked better at 2 years of age :P hope this helped :))

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My son can do basically everything you listed. He does know his ABCs and can even pick out almost every letter if you ask him what a letter is. He can count to 20 (Well for the most part. Sometimes he forgets 14 🤦🏼‍♀️). We just sang the ABCs to him a lot and he loves watching ABC kids tv/coco melon and they do songs that tech the ABCs. So he’s learned from that as well. We also have little foam letters that he plays with in the bathtub and I typically will ask him what letters are what when he’s playing. When it comes to counting, again we just constantly did numbers with him. Eventually he learned. He’s actually been able to count to 10 since a year and a half. So basically we’ve been working on him understanding how many of something there is. So say there’s three cars lined up. We are trying to get him to understand that when you ask how many, there is three.

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My daughter also never in daycare knows her ABC’s (can identify upper and lower case), numbers 1-20 but doesn’t always count correctly will sometimes skip numbers, can count small groups of objects, knows colors and shapes, and can speak full Sentences. She can take off pants, shoes, pull-ups, socks. But can’t get any of the above back on without help, (she gets frustrated very easily).
I let her play ABC mouse and endless words/numbers she seems to learn a lot from those apps. I also read to her as much as she will sit still for lol.

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My son is very comfortable with numbers and letters. He counts to 20 and can recognize and put together numbers incredibly well. He also knows the full alphabet and can read out letters from any word (but not read the full word yet). However he is not a very articulate talker and still does baby talk frequently and also he can only take off his underwear, pants and shoes but not his top/jacket.

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Lol. My kid is soo far behind yours. And the early intervention experts say she doesn’t even qualify for services. 
You’re fine.

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My son does speak in full sentences. He will say things like “open the door please mommy” or “we’re going to the store in Daddy’s truck”. He can count to 10, sometimes 15 and he can sing the alphabet with some prompting (but I wouldn’t say he knows his letters, just that he’s memorized the song). 
I’m a SAHM also and he’s never been in daycare, but I do try and get him to the library for story time once a week. At home I just try and talk to him a lot. 
A couple things I do that I think helped with numbers and the alphabet: 
Every time we walk up or down stairs, we count the stairs out loud. Every time I brush his teeth, I sing the alphabet.

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Reading this makes me feel like my daughter is behind. She doesn't know her ABC's or her numbers. She will say some of them when I say them. She won't say anyone's name. She says mama, mom, dada, dad. She doesn't know her shapes or colors. She can dress and undress herself. She can put her own shoes on.
My husband and I both work full time. He works days and I work evenings. Guess I need to start practicing with her more.

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My husband and I have rotating work schedules, so he’s never been in daycare.
He doesn’t usually speak in 3 word sentences, mostly 2 words. He doesn’t sing his ABCs in the full song, but he knows and recognizes them all, upper and lower case. 
He can count in small groups, and can count up to 16
He knows his shapes and we are still working on colors. He mostly knows his colors but he still gets them wrong sometimes lol. 
Oomi Zoomi really helped him with numbers and shapes lol, but we read all the time and go to the library every week.
He can completely undress himself, but usually try’s putting his clothes on backwards. 
He knows the difference between breakfast lunch and dinner and usually what time of day he eats them. Like in the morning he asks for breakfast and in afternoon he asks for lunch and In the evening he asks for dinner. 
He knows a lot of his animals and animal noises.
He surprises me every day with words he knows. I don’t know how many total he uses?
His speech does concern me a little bit just because he’s hard to understand. Like Bye is Dye and ball is gall (but he can say bubble just fine) and Mickey Mouse is Tity Mouse, etc... so we work on pronunciation all the time. 
I’m sure he’s plugging along just fine with the rest of his age group. What he lacks, I’m sure he will catch up on 😊

What does your 2.5 year old know?

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