Pulling My Hair Out!
Lately, I’m seriously questioning my ability to home school Ava when she gets to be about kindergarten age. I can’t even teach this child her numbers and colors!
Let me clarify…I can teach them to her, and she learns them, but she refuses to demonstrate that she’s learned them. No matter what mood she’s in, she always pretends she doesn’t know how to count or identify colors.
I know she knows them…especially her numbers because when we’re playing hide and seek, I’ll start counting with her and she’ll count several numbers on her own. But tonight, Chad just tried to get her to count to three and it took him 30 minutes! It went something like this:
Daddy: 1…2…what comes next?
Ava: 1,2,1,2!
Daddy: No, 3! Say 3.
Ava: 3
Daddy: OK, 1…2…what comes next?
Ava: 1!
And on and on it went.
Any tips? Advice? I know she’s only 2, but it’s really frustrating that I’ve taught this stuff to her and she won’t even prove that she knows it. Know what I mean? At this rate, she’ll never be doing a New York Job Search! LOL
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Sophia goes through little stages like that every once and a while. It seems to me that when they are working on learning the next group of information (such as 11-20 after learning 1-10 really well) that they get things they’ve already learned a little mixed up.
When this has happened to Sophia in the past I would get really frusterated and practice a ton with her but it never really seemed to help much. As soon as she mastered the new information she was working on everything snapped into place with the old as well.
Is Ava currently working on some new information or skill? Maybe the potty training?
I know each kid is different. I just noticed this with Sophia.
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