I know you're not supposed to compare your kids, but lately I can't help it! DS is coming up to the age DD was when he was born, and I can't help remembering what she was like at this age. Does anyone else do this?

Eg we were having home midwife visits, and DD would hold the doppler and chat to the midwife - I just can't see DS doing that. He doesn't talk much, and a lot of his words need interpretation. DD was learning, numbers, shapes, colours, letters, etc. DS says everything is pink, hoping he's right. We correct him but he says pink again next time. DD loved books, and when she started swimming lessons at 6 ml ths she picked it up immediately. DS rarely looks at books and still doesn't do everything they ask of him at swimming.

On the other hand, he can run and jump far better than she ever could at this age. He is very expressive and loud, just not with actual sentences. He has a much stronger sense of "mine" and is so much more stubborn and argumentative.

In the end, I think it comes down to how we parent them each. With DD we'd read her a story or five at bedtime and we never do for DS. He just won't sit through it. But we don't really give him books during the day either. DD always had those baby books with big simple pictures and that's how she learnt colours etc, we've never eally done that with DS. We are now and he's learning it all well, so I'm feeling guilty that we didn't do it for him earlier

Drawing and colouring is something else he's never done, DD doesn't want him to use her stuff, and they're always off doing something else. It doesn't come up. But as a result, I don't think he could do more than a scribble, so I guess we should work on that.

What have you done differently with your kids, or noticed that's different?