Even during Talia’s time, we have noticed teaching counting to be most effective during games of hide-and-seek. I would lie down on the mat covering my eyes and start counting 1,2,3 and she will do likewise and parrot the numbers after me, while the daddy scrambles around trying to hide!

Now that she can count very well on her own, I no longer have to count with her. Thaddie boy to our surprise picked up this counting very fast even at 17 months. When he sees his sister laying face down on the mat counting, he would quickly lie down and start counting after the sister with the cheekiest grin on his face but halfway through, normally when his sister is only at 5 or 6, he would hurried up and run as fast as his little chubby legs could carry him to try to look for his daddy, squealing with peals of laughter as he dashed along.

The last 2 weeks, he is even counting on his own 1,2,3,4,6 (always missing 5 and stopping at 6) without needing to parrot after his sister and in exactly the same kind of drawl which adults use to teach numbers to children.

He does the same thing when we go into the lift and the numbers appear on the panel. So there you go, nothing like hide-and-seek and the lift to teach counting!

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