I don’t know if I have mentioned this here before, but although Lily is quite bright and is often eager to count and identify shapes and colors, she appears to have an active disdain for the alphabet.
If you try to direct her attention to an alphabet toy, draw a letter for her, point out letters in a book, or any other alphabet-learning activity, she will almost always turn away from you, tell you “no,” or just ignore you.
She does NOT want to learn the alphabet, and I have no idea why.
Now before we go any further, please note that she’s not even 2 yet, I am in NO way concerned about it, okay? Don’t get all upset and start thinking that I’m trying to get her to read Wuthering Heights. That’s not the point. I know she can’t and shouldn’t read, but it’s just about trying to incorporate learning into her everyday life.
And the fact that she is actively resisting any ALPHABET learning being incorporated into her everyday life.
It’s very peculiar.
Whatever, it’s no big deal and I know she will eventually get it and now I feel all weird about having written such a long, disclaimer-filled blog post, when all I was trying to tell you is that apparently she HAS been listening, because apparently she can at least sing the alphabet pretty well. So here you go!
J gets dropped, and U is replaced with a second O, but I was pretty impressed considering I hadn’t heard her try to do this before.
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