Sense of time??

[sugarsue]

Do you think this means anything or is significant? I'm having trouble measuring Savanna's development when I only compare her to Sierra. Sierra matured in many ways more quickly than her peers and she is a 1st grader in a class of 1-3 graders. Savanna is in pre-k in a class of pre-k and K and she seems so much younger and due to her size, she is often mistaken for a 4 year old and she will be 6 this year.

She is very smart and working on higher grade level math for example but she can't figure out the difference between beakfast, lunch and dinner. She will often ask for breakfast in the evening and when asked she doesn't know if lunch comes first or dinner in the day. She does not have a sense of time about "today", "this afternoon" and "tonight". She can't keep track of when she did something (like we went out for breakfast in the morning and by the afternoon she does not know what day we went). She's always taking about what day it is and what comes before and after and even though she can recite the days of the week, she does not really know what comes next.

Does this sound normal for a 5 1/2 kid? Could this be something related to her sensory issues? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Susan

[kikih]

Funny you mention this...

Sarah just had her Behavioral Vision exam this AM(when I get some time I will post about that). Anyway her doc mentioned how vision plays a roll in just about everything we precieve even the sense of time. We take in our surroundings and draw conclusions. Like X is sitting on my right and Y is on my left. Thus I am in the middle, and you instinctively know which way to turn. With time they do tasks and then can predict how long something should take to complete. I you have vision issues then you may not make correct predictions because you are not taking in the right amt of info from your surroundings. Now that said both my kids do not really get time. For the first time ever in school Sarah did time and predicting amount of time in second grade. Some of her questions were: You and your friends are going on a picnic. How long will you be gone? choices are 2 min, 2 days, or 3 hrs. They have to pick the right time. With practice (lots of it) she got very good w/ her predictions. Now I know her brother, who is 6 would probably not always be able to come up w/ the right answer. He does have a grasp of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but he will ask me several times a day, What day is it? He doesn't always remember that he did something yesterday instead of today. So I think it is all probably normal for 5 1/2 but something to keep your eye on.

kiki w/ Sarah 4-5-00 and Nicholas 1-16-02

[angeleena]

Hi,
I have no idea if it is normal or not. Ella at 4.5 has no sense of time and never knows if something happened today or she often says "last night" when she means last week or even a few months ago.

I hope you get it figured out.

I bet it could be part of sensory issues.


-Angi

[smf3]

Madylin is this same way. No sense of time at all. She will ask for *dinner* things at breakfast (wants a cheeseburger, spaghetti, etc) and when I say *No, it's time for breakfast, so you can have oatmeal, eggs, toast, etc, etc...which would you like to have?* she'll say *Noooo, it's time for dinner!* LOL! And everything is *You have 15 minutes* She watched a berenstain bears movie about the bears leaving their room a mess and momma bear told them they had exactly 15 minutes to clean it up. So now everything is 15 minutes.

Madylin also knows days of the week, months of the year, etc, but has no idea (at least it seems) what they MEAN. About two weeks ago she asked where the snow was, even though we haven't had snow for over a month. She wants to ride the school bus, and the only thing I could think of was to tell her she is four years old (she JUST recently started answering people that she's four) and she has to have 2 more birthdays before she can ride the bus. Six years old (her bday falls as such that her 6th bday will be about a week after she starts K that year)....she seemed satisfied with that and tells everyone she can ride the bus when she's 6 years old

We measure time by *When dad gets home* or *When you wake up*....relative things like that. It seems to help some.


Shawna