mixing up words, does your kid do this?

[Banana731]

My six year old mixes up pronouns on a fairly regular basis. DD will call a boy "she" or vice versa. She also calls me "Dad" and DH "mom". She's always done it, but it's never stopped or gotten any better. Is that normal? My 2-year old doesn't really do that at all.

[Alyantavid]

My 4 year old does. Not all the time, but often enough that we notice.

Of course my 8 year old sometimes looks right at me and calls me dad.

[momtoTnT]

My kids both do this too - but so do I (just last night I told my kids that after dinner it was time for dinner....instead of bed)....I don't know if it's normal, but I do know that it got worse for me after I had kids.

My kids regularly call me Marci (their daycare provider), grandma, and dad.

[2cutiekitties]

3 yr old DS does this all the time.

I think it is cute, but when he plays with older kids they really hate it, so that is a bummer.

[Bri'sgirl]

My kids call me "dad, I mean mom" and vice versa with my dh, all the time. Just like I call them G, I mean R, I mean I...

[rlmueller]

Yup

All the time and he is 7. I did it too to my divorced parents. Didn't go over well with them. They can suck an egg on that one though.

[MaterPrimaePuellae]

My DD is verbally advanced. She has never mixed pronouns (and corrects me if I do! ), but she mixes opposites: "I can drive a car when I am smaller [she means bigger]," or, "I want to be warmer [when she means cooler].

[Autumn Breeze]

all the time! I still do it frequently....like time for dinner, when it's time for bed, and calling them opposite names despite the 4 yr gap and difference in gender. Meh, it happens lol

[HipGal]

My 4 1/2 year old dd does this all the time. I think it might be because she goes to a bilingual preschool and her second language (Chinese) doesn't have different pronouns for female/male. Though when I think about it, she also mixes up before/after, next/last and more. I don't know what is up with that!