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[quote=Anonymous]Does he only refer to HER as a man or is this done to others, too?

My son, who is speech delayed at 4, still refers to everyone as he.  We are working on it, but clearly he generalizes.

If that's the case, then I wouldn't worry.  If not, just gently correct him by using the proper pronouns.  And use other examples he may see in books or on TV.

Is Mary not exactly into dresses and what not?  Is that what's confusing him?

[quote=Anonymous]How do I handle this?  We have a lesbian neighbor that we are friendly with.  She will often visit and stop by sometimes with her partner, other times by herself.  My DS recently called her a boy.  He knows her name but argued that "mary" is a boy - not a girl.  This came up because he asked a question about her.  "Mommy, why did that boy drop off the box today?"  I was confused and said, "Mary dropped off the box, she's a girl, not a boy" and he was adament - kept insisting that Mary was a boy.  I asked him why he thought Mary was a boy and he wouldn't tell me, just kept saying "No, Mary's a boy."  I finally just dropped it.

He is almost 5 years old and has speech delays (which is why he couldn't articulate why he thought Mary was a boy).  he's never said that to "mary" directly and it's the first time it's come up - he's known Mary since he was little.

Do I do anything?  Just drop it and let mary deal with it if he ever says it to her? How do I explain, without any boobs vs. penises comparisons, that she's a woman?[/quote][/quote]

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