HELP!!! My daughter is 3 and barely knows her alphabet.....?
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Perfectly normal. You're pushing. There's plenty of kids in kindergarten who get it for the first time. Relax.
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read to her every night. read her an easy book with alphabets, untill she can read it to you herself. dont give up!
dont force or push
it takes time for things to process, but overtime, your daughter will know her alphabets. Trust me, it took my little brother at age 5 to finally take a dump at the toilet.
How about applying a little more pressure to your 3 year old. You can't start soon enough, teaching your children about stress.
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Relax! she still has some time before kindergarten. She may just not quite be ready yet.
However, there is a wonderful book by Dr. suess (his alphabet book). That is loved by kids because it is funny and rhymes. I had my son reading before kindergarten, because he loved that book so much and wanted to read it EVERY night.
good luck.
I got these tapes by LeapFrog that teach them to learn by phonics, they have four different learining tapes and they are awesome,, my 2 year old is learning his..If you have Avon in your area they sell them in there upcoming catalog, or in Toys R Us
awww its okay, dont worry. my oldest now 7 did learn his ABC until week two of Kindergarten. then he came home and taught it to my 2 yr old and 4 yr od. I think some learn better when surrounded by their peers. good luck.
Understand that most children don't begin to learn their alphabet until they reach pre-school, which for most is at age four. I won't say that you're pushing her too hard, but I will say that you should, perhaps, lower your expectations. We all want our children to be geniuses, but we must understand that these things take time.
I hope that was of help.
damn calm down shes just a tot send her to pre school dont be pushing her she will hate u for that in the future we got limits ya noe
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i have a cousin that struggled with similar issues. one important key though is does she talk well? if she has problems speaking too, then you might want to see a doctor. if not, then does your child have any special interest in shows such as elmo or barney? if she does, then let her and even encourage her to watch the shows, and buy some books that enforce learning the alphabet and numbers. i know that sounds like it wouldnt work, but i know plenty of children who it's helped tremendously. it's a lot more fun to learn things when your interested in who and what's teaching you.
There are educational videos that may help to keep her attention. Don't stress too much, that will only make it worse for you. You could try interacting with magnet alphabet letters and find any game that will show each letter one by one. It's just a matter of what she's ready for.
Don't worry about it. Your child will be learning these things in kindergarten. You wouldn't learn German before you took a German class right? A lot of parents worry about this. They feel their child should know the curriculum before they enter kindergarten to give them a "one up." These children usually end up bored. Social and emotional readiness are more important than academic readiness.
She should learn a few letter sounds and numbers. You want her to have the basic knowledge that this symbol represents this sound (number). Play "I spy" with her. "I spy something that starts with the letter "mmmmm." You can have a flash card with the symbol for her to recognize. Play some counting games with her. Count how many cars go by, count the dolls, or count out how many forks you will need for dinner. Keep it fun. If she feels you are trying to teach her, she may resist.
These are some basic skills that you daughter should have before starting school: hold a pencil in an orthodox way, recognize her name, write her name (upper case first letter followed by lower case), know 8 basic colors, cut with scissors, dress herself, take care of bathroom needs. Here is a link to some more readiness skills http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei=u...
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Relax and good luck!
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our daughter is three and cannot count to 5.....or say please, or remember poop goes it the potty, or remember to not cut her or the puppies hair, or eat without destroying the kitchen, or watch tv without screaming at the top of her lungs during commercials.......she's 3.....relax.....she'll get there
That's not so unusual, and the more you push the more she will resist. Who are you trying to impress by forcing her to learn before she's ready? Did you potty train her by age one? Lighten up a bit before you give her nightmares or make her need a therapist.
Key to learning for my son is FUN! Whenever I make it fun--he picks it up...If he's not interested I leave it alone....Remember--when you're tempted to compare your child to others--look around you---every adult learned to use the bathroom, brush their teeth, eat with utensils AND (unless they're illiterate due to lack of education) knows the alphabet!!! No stress...
try the alphabet game when you are out driving around with her. spot an A on a sign and tell her to try to do the same. since she is 3, have her point to the letter when she sees it. give her a big hug and kiss every time she gets one right. if she doesn;t, don't worry too much about it. she will be fine. Have you ever thought of testing her for ADD? maybe she just has a short attention span? if so, you have to make these lessons as fun and as different as possible. always have her learning in a fun and unrepetetive way. good luck
you could try a really good alphabet book or think of a really fun game with the alphabets.....and try not to push to hard becasue the more you push the more you lose their attention....good luck!
Don't worry. I teach Kindergarten and had quite a few students come to me without knowing their alphabet (they could sing the song, but with no visual recognition of the grapheme). I would definitely read to her everyday. Let her interest grow naturally. Especially expose her to books on topics which interest her. If you want to teach more explicitly at this stage, I would recommend the use of songs. Leapfrog has alphabet magnets called "Fridge Phonics" which play a little tune about the letter and sound it makes. My favorite though is the Alphafriends series from Houghton-Mifflin. We use this at school, but I am not sure if it is available for public purchase. You can find the songs online, I'm sure though. Good Luck!
You should put her in preschool. that may help, since its fun and there are other kids and Stuff. good luck
Get her the Fridge Phonics Magnetic set by Leap Frog. It sticks to the fridge and has all the letters to the alphabet, you change the letters and push on it. It sings some little songs that are pretty catchy to help them remember. Or just go to the link below and browse the many products they have to help teach the alphabet.
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my daughter really stuggled with the alphabet when she was small too. she still stuggles to read and she is going into the second grade. she's not bored, she tries her hardest but just has such a hard time. we found out in first grade that she has a mild, rare case of dyslexia. i'm not saying that is what's wrong with your child at THREE. i'm saying that you need to be patient and work with her... but show her how proud you are of the things she gets. enroll her into a good preschool. all of my kids went to preschool at age 3. my oldest child was reading before he started kindergarten... but the other three WERE NOT. all kids are different and learn at their own pace... and for the record, my oldest child that was reading before kindergarten, he has to really study in order to get o.k. grades (he's a sophmore now)... but my second child that had a speach problem when he entered kindergarten has never had to crack a book in his life and gets all A's... he even received the Presidential Award that is only awarded to a small group of kids in the United States every year.... THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT... just don't put pressure on them, make it fun. one thing my daughter loves that has helped in her a,b,c's and 1,2,3's is a video machine that is called V'SMILE, it's made by v-tech... it looks like a big kids video game but EVERYTHING is a learning game... but it's fun. i've even seen our 16 year old playing with the 7 year old on this gaming system. i think the system itself was about $40.00 with one control... another $15.00 for the second control and about $15.00 for each game cartrige... but it came with one for free with the system. HAVE FUN LEARNING!
My child turned 4 in march. We are still working on his alphabet. She might not grasp all of it. There are a lot of letters to learn. I'm not sure if you mean singing it or knowing the letters. But here is what I do. We sing the abc song slowly. I also made a board and I have the letter of the week. We review the other letters and the new letter for the week. Same thing with counting. Don't overwhelm her. Then she will get frustrated over it and will take longer to learn. Right now try not to worry about it she is 3.
I'm a reading specialist. What I did with my girls is, bought the little book reader, I believe it was the Leap Pad. When they were three and four I bought hooked on Phonics. Web site is "www.hookedonphonics.com". My youngest daughter is ADHD and Autistic. She is going into 4th grade and reads on a sixth grade level. My other daughter is going into sixth and reads on 12th grade level. Make sure you always pick words out and ask them what they mean. Understanding what they're Reading is very important.
No need to worry. She'll learn it soon enough. She's still very young. If you push her too hard she'll just clam up.
Stop worrying!!! Jeez, we've all gotten so crazy with our kids haven't we? I was the same way. But when they got to kindergarten and I realized some of THOSE kids STILL hadn't learned the alphabet, I realized how wrong I was to worry.
stop pushing your child you are setting her up for failure. let her learn at her own pace,my son is 3 also and doesnt know any of the alphabet. he can count and read some words.
she is just a baby donot push her . you can read to her and sing songs and stuff but why are you in a hurry for her to know that stuff .
They will learn in school (kindergarden). I spoke all Chinese at home, and learned my alphabet in school.
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