SuperDad Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 ...would you generally expect a child to understand the concept of "yesterday, today, tomorrow"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Well my 6.5y/o understands, my 4.5y/o doesn't. I'd say 5-6ish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Around 2 or 3 for my kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommy5 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 I'm not sure ... My 5 yr old says things like "yesterday last week" and other phrases but usually means a long time ago (like a year ago) ... My 7 yr old doesn't say things like that anymore, but I remember around the same age hearing that. They both understand "today" and "tomorrow", though ... I think the past is just too general and they have had difficulty thinking about specific days. I'm thinking somewhere around the age of 6 is when my kids "get it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAVampireLvr Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 My oldest started getting it about age 5... almost 6. My middle child understands it better, but we have a daily calendar on the wall that we change up every day. Its been super useful. http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Calendar-Weather-Pocket/dp/B000P86RMC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332108960&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatLight Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 My five-year old still mixes those concepts up, and gets them confused. He'll say things like "last week" when he means a month or more ago. Today and tomorrow he's got down pat, it's just talking about the past that trips him up, really. So, I would say sometime between 5-6ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Around 3. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoamiracle Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 when my son was about 3.5 he would say "last day" for yesterday, so I am assuming he understood the concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillieBoy Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 when my son was about 3.5 he would say "last day" for yesterday, so I am assuming he understood the concept. Around 3 my dd firmly grasped "yester" and anything past was yester year, yester week.... Now at 10, I'm doubtful on how well she grasped time at all because EVERYTHING is tomorrow. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy_of_4 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Around 3ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuovonne Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 (edited) ...would you generally expect a child to understand the concept of "yesterday, today, tomorrow"? Depends on what level of understanding. At around age 2 my kids understood "today" as the time between getting up in the moring and going to bed at night. Long naps sometimes threw them off. They understood past and future, but anything beyond today might have a wildly inaccurate time label. At around ages 3 my kids understood "yesterday" and "tomorrow" as the single day before or after today, but they still got mixed up sometimes. It helped that we had fixed outings for different days. E.g. Yesterday was the library, today is preschool, and tomorrow will be playgroup. By age 4, my kids were pretty solid on "yesterday, today, and tomorrow" as a specific set of three days, and started to grasp "day before yesterday" and "day after tomorrow". It took much, much longer for my kids to get a feel for how long a week is, and even longer to get a feel for a month or year. Edited March 19, 2012 by Kuovonne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicAnn Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 generally 4-5. Dd knows what they mean, but sometimes get confused. She's had a general understanding since 3/4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 around 6 for my kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It was not until 7 that ds finally understood the concept, and dd at 4.5 doesn't understand it yet. Ds 8 insists on calling the day after tomorrow "tomorrow the next day" :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariston Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 My 7 year old understands the concept but still sometimes uses his own words to describe them. My almost-6 year old is actively trying to understand...I think she'll get it soon. Elena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 My almost 5 year old still thinks it is morning/ new day when he gets up from an afternoon nap...:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oraetstudia Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It's been different for each of my kids. But a sweet little picture book we have, that they all liked, helped teach the concept -- called Now, Soon, Later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splinter Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Probably 2, maybe 3. I remember my daughter thinking it was ridiculous when they were taught it in kindergarten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatholicMom Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 For my kids it has been around age 6. My barely 5 yo is always saying "Is it tomorrow?" She gets yesterday, but not that tomorrow is never today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALB Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I'd say around 4 or 5. I'm sure they often understand the concept before they can use the vocabulary correctly. My ds 4 often gets yesterday confused with other days, but he definitely knows it already happened and it was recent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Bmom Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 3 or 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It's been different for each of my kids. But a sweet little picture book we have, that they all liked, helped teach the concept -- called Now, Soon, Later. It looks like we need this book - thanks for the recommendation, will certainly check it out from library! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 My 6 year old is still catching on. He still sometimes says "last day" for yesterday. But, I don't blame him because we often talk about "last week/month/year" so why should day be any different? :D We work on it during calendar time...when I remember to do calendar time. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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