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Mighty
19 yrs ago
My daughter is 3 and 9 months. Language at home is English. She speaks normally for her age but she only uses 'he', 'him' and 'his' for everything. Is this problem common among native speaking children too? Tks for yr input.
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It's a common 'condition' of development among all children.
At your daughter's age, children can identify themselves and other people as girls or boys (or mums or dads). But until the age of 6 or 7, children don't see a person's sex as stable over time, or even across changes in superficial physical characteristics. So a man with long hair could be a 'she' or a woman in trousers a 'he'.
I don't think it's necessary to correct her, just always use the correct pronoun around her and she'll pick up on it, without knowing it.
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cd
19 yrs ago
Disagree with Claire, my kids all knew long before 6 or 7 the difference between male and female. I have noticed here that helpers etc only use one gender for everything,maybe she has picked it up from her. My daughter who is 5 actually picks my helper up if he calls a 'she' a 'he'.a
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My 4 1/2 yr son almost always mixes it. Males are "she" or "her" and females "he" and "his". No idea why.
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cd> I mentioned sex recognised as being stable over time by the age of 6-7, before that (as I mentioned) they can distinguish between male and female.
This work came from psychologist, theorist and researcher Lawrence Kohlberg whose work followed on from Piaget's schema of child development.
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