[readytobedone]

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maybe it's not a big deal, but i'm very impressed.

she's been asking me to write letters and numbers a lot. she likes it when i do and squeals with delight!

the other day i was writing letters and numbers, and she was naming them very happily. but she was sitting across from me. she even got the 6 and 9 right and M and W (ID'ing them from my perspective).

somehow i just found this really surprising, once i realized she was seeing them upside down (took me awhile to really realize this--which i guess probably shows she didn't get her spatial skills from her mother

).

she'll be two next month. isn't the whole developmental thing of seeing things from another person's perspective supposed to be later (which is why kids often get pronouns confused, and for awhile assume you can see whatever they're looking at)?

or maybe this is typical. i dunno.

ETA: well, i mean, it's definitely not typical, in that most 23 month olds don't know all their letters and numbers to begin with. however, the perspective thing, i don't really know but it seems kinda crazy to me.

 

[daytripper75]

I think it is excellent! Most kids don't have the ability to understand that letters are always written in the same direction and in the same way every single time. It's impressive that she can id her letters from all angles.
Later on, I think around 6 or 7 something clicks in their brains and they start to understand the concept that letters are only right when they're going in the right direction and not upside down, etc.

Enjoy that little smarty! I bet her squeals of joy are so cute!!!

 

[no5no5]

I think it was around that age that DD discovered that letters could look like different letters if one looked at them from a different angle, e.g., "Z" and "N." She used to have so much fun just turning letters and shouting out what they were.

I don't know whether she could have (or can now) identify letters written upside down from her perspective, as we normally sit facing the same direction...and, actually, when she is across from me I typically write upside down (so it is always right-side up from her perspective). Perhaps I should not have gotten into that particular habit.

 

[expecting-joy]

I don't think it's "normal" in the general population, but my girls were doing that really young, too. They've always loved numbers and letters and could recognize numbers and letters upside-down as soon as they could recognize them at all, probably around a year. Very early, that's for sure. I had also expected that would have come later, but nope.

Cool, isn't it?