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[quote=Anonymous]Children can see movement better than detail, so moving objects such as cars and trains catch their attention. Also, since their vision doesn't fully develop until they are a few years old, in the first couple years, they depend on hearing and smell. "Car" was one of the first words my child said because he could see cars out the window and loved watching them drive by. The noise the cars make also fascinates him. He hears the trains and the airplanes that pass by our house and learned the words for those early on, too. It's a matter of exposure. If we lived somewhere with horses trotting by all the time, he'd probably love horses.

The other thing to remember is that kids start modeling the adults in their lives very early. If they are cared for by women who take care of kids and men who drive cars, mow lawns and use other machinery, then that's what becomes the model in their brain. Not to say that it can't be changed - kids are flexible for the first several years. But to be gender neutral, you really have to work hard at having all the adults In their lives share all the different kinds of tasks. One or two important individual(s) in their lives can probably have a big influence at moderating or overcoming the effects of general society defaults.

Exposure plays a big role, one way or another. Even if we don't realize what is happening.[/quote]

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