Time concept problems in children?

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Well from you said, we can't say if you truly didn't understand or if your parents just never bothered to explain - yesterday you woke up, ate breakfast/lunch/dinner then went to bed and woke up and it was today, after you go to bed today and wake up, it will be tomorrow

Yes, that describes my son. He's still not good at it. He knows yesterday and tomorrow, but not next week and he has great difficulty with keeping the days of the week in order (but, he's extremely bright. so, i don't understand the time issues). He doesn't think in months or years yet. However, even if he can't tell you what day of the week it is, he knows if he has to do something that day. It's an internal clock that he can't vocalize.

I'm bad about the same thing. Words just have too many meanings. I never know what anyone really means.

Sounds like my cat. When he was younger, If my alarm went off at 7 am for two mondays in a row, he'd wake me up at 7 am on the third. And he wouldn't rest until I got up. He eventually stopped doing that - probably when I graduated as he realized my schedule was no longer predictable.

I used to call him my furry alarm clock

Actually the development of prepositions of place is much earlier than 6

between 28 – 36 months a child should have"in" and "on" ( receptively and expressively)

between 3 and 4 years they should have under,over off, behind, beside and next to ( by age 4 if they do not have these it would be considered a delay)

By five they should have more complex prepositions of place top, above, between, near.

So... being a speech pathologist.. I can tell you I would be a bit concerned about a child that did not have prepositions of place at around the right times, also concept of time ( today, tomorrow, yesterday, later etc ) is normally pretty firmly in place by 5 years of age - given that there is a range of normal and it depends on what other issues the child is presenting with.

I wonder if me slow in learning what "tomorrow" "afternoon" yesterday" etc. was due to my hearing loss so it made me slow in learning those things. I can remember the calendar thing in my school when I was 5 but didn't get it. Everyday the teacher would pick up the day of the month and have one of us tape the number to the day we are on.
I didn't start getting the calendar till I was 6. I even learned the days of the week at that age and the months and what year it is.

I have trouble with the concept of time. Not that bad though. Sometimes I will estimate it's been an hour when it's only been 20 minutes. some times i'll estimate it's been 20 minutes when it's been an hour. I am very unawahere of the time, and i can let lots of time pass by without really noticing.