My sons are constantly adding to their extensive vocabularies and they both can put together some complex sentences with fairly decent grammatical acumen. The most noticeble struggle they have is gender-specific pronouns. Tonight my oldest and I had this conversation in the hallway:
Him: "Mommy! Mommy!"
Me: "Your mom is busy, what do you want?"
Him: "I'm looking for mom, where is he?"
Me: "In the kitchen!"
Apparently the gender of the pronoun matters little to a child, while the gender of the parent matters a great deal to them! Mommy's are a real problem solver, he's the favorite. So be it. (Yes, I said gender neutral IT!)
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