Will my toddler be able to read any words by the time he is 3?
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My son was born on 10/14/19, so he's a little over two and a half. He loves cars and he is interested in letters and words, so he often asks me what the different words say on the cars. In context (i.e. on a car he has seen before, where he has asked me before what the word on the car says) he can remember that a word on one car says "TOYOTA" and a word on another car says "Jeep". He can't yet generalize that to confidently identifying the word "TOYOTA" on a car he has never seen before, though. So my question is whether, by the time he is 3, he will be able to read any words when I just write them on a whiteboard out of context, based on the letter-shape-pattern, like adults would, or whether it will take him longer to generalize from where he is currently at. I think it seems obvious to me that he should be able to do this, because he is paying a lot of attention, I am happy to help him learn, and five months is a long time. My wife thinks probably this is a hard skill and most likely he will not be able to do it by 3. This market will resolve YES if he is able to demonstrate a normal human ability to identify some words like "TOYOTA" written on a whiteboard with pretty high reliability by the time he is 3. I'm not going to decide exactly what test to use -- I will use my judgment based on generally observing his capabilities in a variety of tests and situations. If he can only recognize a word correctly like 20% of the time, or only when I write it exactly like the "TOYOTA" font, or something like that, then that's a NO. If somehow I absolutely can't figure out whether he can read or not, or if he dies before the age of 3 or something, I may resolve N/A.
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predicted NO

He turned 3, seems like probably no, if he can read anything yet I don't know what it is.

predicted NO

At one month to go we got mostly interested in other things so he isn't much better at reading yet.

Lay him on his stomach on a hard surface as in avatar. Could be the first. 50-50. But I don't think youll decide that, bc discoveries made by randos are always difficult to accept.
The purpose of sleep is interhemispheric communication. Stomach position dramatically improves both quality and quantity here.
It can't be just any random position bc body/movement awareness is needed.
This story is sounding very familiar lol
Seems unlikely.
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Based on my own experience of childrearing, I think it's harder than you anticipate. But if you hothouse him hard enough, maybe? I'd feel more confident if you could give us more precise resolution criteria, becasue there's quite a lot of room for interpretation with this kind of thing, and parents are notoriously partial judges (however rationalist they may fancy themselves!)

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