Reversals

Ash had his first test (letters a-f) on Tuesday, and the second on Thursday (1-50). The former, I made him practise with great difficulty (he is just too lazy to write these days since school has become an occasional pastime for him) a few times. But with each attempt, the mistakes increased. If in the first round, he got the b and d mixed up, in the later rounds the e went upside down and f looked the other way. To the extent that I began to worry if it was dyslexia.
But after reading up some literature on dyslexia, I relaxed. Apparently reversal of words is fine till a child is 6. And anyway he is just beginning to learn the small alphabets and numbers. (He also gets 6,9, 7 and 3 wrong.)
The English test book reached home day before, and he got only b and d wrong - I mean b became d and d b. The teacher told me that was okay since kids who attend school regularly also get it wrong.
As for the Maths test, he wrote only 1-20 and lost interest thereafter, she said when she called today to enquire after Ash who injured himself yesterday night. The glasstop of the centretable broke as he kept jumping over it, and pierced his bum. V and the watchman rushed him to the hospital while the nanny stayed back with Mira (I am on the late shift this week). Three hours later, following a saline wash and a wait for the pediatric surgeon, the general surgeon stitched up the gash and gave him a sedative.
Today, after the initial gingerly effort, he is limping around fine.