Toddler confused green and red

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She's known her colours for over a year now she's 2 months away from being three. She gets all them correct apart from green and red and always tells me the wrong one.

Does anyone know why? Or how to help her get them?

She's confused it since she's known her colours?

Thanks in advance x

Well, colour blindness is a possibility although it’s much rarer in females.

Until she’s much older and can be formally tested I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It might just be because she’s young and toddlers are prone to being unreliable

Is there any RG colour blindness in either of her parents' families?
It's rare but not impossible in girls. She'd have to have inherited affected X-chromosome from both her parents.
I dunno. I've known loads of blokes who manage(d), including my own grandfather, so not a biggie to me. Intriguing.

Well, she could be colour blind. More likely it's just because she's only two though.

I get this with blue, green and red. I know the colour but I always want to say the wrong one. I have to really think about it sometimes. Not sure why, she could be the same though??

My son is 3 and gets black and white mixed up consistently. And same with yellow and orange. I think his sight is ok though. Sone children can't even say the words red and green at this age, I wouldn't sweat it.

My little girl did this all the time at a similar age. If you’re concerned you can pop along to an opticians with her for an eye test, which is what I did as I was worried she might be colour blind.
The optician was really helpful and told me it wasn’t as common for girls to be colour blind as boys and that children with red green colourblindness get some other colours wrong too I think he said orange and brown too.

My little girl eventually grew out of it I think she’d honestly convinced herself the name for the colour green was red and vice versa.

Can she actually distinguish the colours? You can check that by showing her a picture of red and blue flowers on a green background. If she points out the red flowers there's no problems with colour blindness and it's just her terminology that's wobbly (as it often is at that age). As a PP has said, colour blindness is rare in females and you'd probably be aware of a strong family history, so try not to worry.

Get a collection of green and red objects and see if she can separate the colours.

You can do a quick test for colour blindness by finding those coloured circles patterns - one with pictures in rather than numbers - and see if she can find the pictures.

Red-green colourblindness is a confusing name because it doesn't just affect red and green but any colour that contains them.

My first clue that my son could be colourblind (runs in the family so I knew I could be a carrier) was that he couldn't tell the difference between the orange and yellow balls in his ball pit. As orange is a mixture of yellow and red and his eyes don't see the red properly, the orange ball looked yellow to him. He has never seen purple (it looks like blue to him), darker reds look brown or black but he can identify a bright red, light greens look yellowish, darker ones look muddy brown. Have you noticed issues with any other colours?

You can download the Boots Opticians Zookeeper Zoe app www.boots.com/opticians-advice/opticians-advice-zookeeper-zoe It's a eye test app for kids that helps you check their vision and it includes a colour blindness test.

It's certain shades of red & green that are confused as identical (my previous colleague would talk about his experience). They have to have similar intensity/comparable hue. But yeah, lots of tests can take to verify.

Getting dressed could be a challenge. I know wives who choose their husband's clothes to avoid strange clashes.

@WiltedDaffs have you seen the sunglasses you can buy that enable them to see the colours? 😍

Also OP every other female in my family is colour blind. Just because 'it's rarer' doesn't mean your daughter doesn't have it. Also they believe it's similar to autism/adhd in that girls mask it much better than boys do, rather than it being more rare as such.

Most people only discover it when they go for jobs in the forces, which has always been predominantly male applicants which also screws with the stats.

Colourblindness.org
Is your friend.
1:12 boys and 1:200 girls affected
But children are not routinely tested in school.
Specialist glasses do not appear to help.

It is very prevalent in my extended family, both males and females.
Not to distinguish green/red really common, but one of my DB sees grey as pink.
We make some very interesting colour choices 😂😂

Also they believe it's similar to autism/adhd in that girls mask it much better than boys do, rather than it being more rare as such.
No they don’t.
Colour blindness is a sex linked genetic disorder. Females typically carry it, it’s expressed in males. So for a little girl to have it she would need to have that genetic defect from both parents. So OP is your partner colour blind and is your grandfather colour blind? If the answer to those questions is no then it’s unlikely there’s an issue (although not impossible) she can easily be screened for it in the next year or so (or earlier if she’s especially cooperative)
I’d not worry for the moment though, give her a little time to grow up a bit and then get it checked.

she could be colour blind.
or her language is not there yet at that age.

have a look at the images in the link with her. if you are not sure she can see properly go to an optician that can do eye tests on small children

iristech.co/how-the-red-green-colorblind-test-works-for-kids/

My brother and uncle are both colour blind. There's none of her dads side though would that be the right link?

We realised DS2 was colour blind when he could not see purple unless it was a purple with lots of red in it. He didn't confuse the two colours, he simply couldn't see that they were different. If your DD is always telling you the wrong colour rather than not being able to see it, there is a good chance she's just confused. It's worth having a go at those tests though.

One for the future - if she is colour blind she will need "colour reading" put on her exam record for invigilators. DS sometimes has to have them tell him what colour something is :)

Dr Google has this to say A colour blind daughter therefore must have a father who is colour blind and a mother who is a carrier (who has also passed the faulty ‘gene’ to her daughter).

My son is 'red/green colour blind.' He can usually tell the difference between red and green but can't see any difference between blue and purple. He doesn't see the red bit in purple, iyswim. An optician can do a simple test, but it's probably worth waiting a little while yet so she can sit the test effectively. Not much has changed with the way my son does things. In some sports he has to have things described other than the colour that they are, eg he show jumps and his teacher has to describe a fence as 'the striped one' rather than the green and white one. He's never known any difference though so he copes well.

Toddlers can be contrary about these things. One of mine knew colours and would give you the red crayon for example if you asked, but if you asked what colour it was later would tell you a variety of different colours (but not red).