Alpha Boy

Max knows the alphabet.  Well, most of it anyway. 

He can't sing the alphabet song or anything, but he can identify about 80% of the letters in the alphabet.  When we're reading a book, he'll point to a letter and say "K!"  or pick up an alphabet magnet and say "B!". We have big foam letters for "A" and "M" and he likes to carry around his "M" and say "M! mmmmmM!"  He'll point to the "A" on Alex's superhero cape and say "A!"  You get the idea. The kid knows his letters.

But how?  I didn't TEACH him his letters.  He's a year and a half old, he should be learning to talk, not spell.  Yet, somehow, some way, he's managed to learn both.  We've focused a lot the last year on teaching Alex the alphabet and writing letters, so I guess that Max has been watching and listening and learning too.  Either that or he's really paying attention when he watches WordWorld. Maybe both.

He's been demonstrating his knowledge of the alphabet for at least a month, and strangely, I've been hesitant to talk about it. I guess I feel like people would think I'm some kind of crazy early learning flashcard mom or something. I didn't do ANYTHING to encourage Max to start learning the alphabet, he just is absorbing these things all on his own.  Which is pretty cool.

So yes, my youngest child is some kind of brilliant alphabet learning prodigy and no, I can't take any credit for it.  It's all him.