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<< She has no need to write down the time. She can *tell* time--that's
all she needs right now. >>

When my kids were little, Kirby and Marty could tell time on a digital clock,
but not analog. Holly, three years younger than Marty and five and a half
years younger than Kirby, came along and she could read an analog clock just
intuitively, it seemed, almost before she could talk plain. And so when they
were out and about, if there was a digital clock they would tell Holly what
time it was, and if it was analog, they would ask Holly and she would tell
them.

I never worried about it because I knew they would figure both of them out
pretty easily, in their own way.

We had a game (Playroom, I think) which had a whole section involving clocks
(both analog and digital) and they all played with that. I had a "teaching"
clock in the boys' room that showed the minutes by fives, and "before" and
"after" and "quarters" but they didn't care. They just saw it as interesting
art.

And of course now all of them can tell time on any clock, SET any clock or
brand-new watch (after they chuck the unread directions in the trash), and
can calculate different time zones. It's more than many adults can do.
(More than I can do; when I get a new watch or alarm clock, I ask the kids to
set it.)

Sandra

Betsy

**We had a game (Playroom, I think) which had a whole section involving
clocks (both analog and digital) and they all played with that.**

I know there's a game like this in Trudy's Time and Place House. We
bought the game 5 years ago, so I don't know if it's still available.
(The animated clocks were called Analog Ann and Digitial Dan.)

Betsy