begging to be sent to preschool in October so now she goes two afternoons a week but before then she was just not ready. When she was though, wow, there was no tears and she loves it. Anyway, dd started verbally recognising her colours at about 18 months but the learning started before just by talking to her about everything, but not being pushy. Since dd was 6 months I gradually upped the amount of playgroups, stay and play, gymtots etc that we attended, letting her socialize when she wanted to with me as back up. Dd has therefore not missed out on.anything i do agree with all my pp's, i just wanted to add that when not going to nursery they might "miss out" on learning all the social skills that children can only learn from children, especially when they are their own age. my lo, now 6(wow, , didnt start nursery until hes was about 3,5 years old, and by then he had already started to talk like grown ups and was clearly missing out on sth. but when he then went to nursery 5 afternoons a week, that quickly changed and he turned into a "child child", for lack of a better way of explaining...i do believe that it is vital for children to spend time with other children, away from (family-)adults if u know what i mean, just as important as it is for us to interact with people our own age which are not neccessarily