When did your DC realise skin colour and race ect.

[Mummaluelae]

Just curious to know tbh
My DC realised before he was 2yo that daddy was black, mummy white, and himself brown. Along with his sister
He understands grandad is mummy's family and nanny is daddy's family.
When drawing family picture. Daddy is with black pencil, mummy with yellow and himself and sister brown!

On another note every man he sees he thinks is a daddy, and every woman, a mummy!

I think kids in general are fairly colour/race blind. They obviously see that people have different skin colour, and will replicate that in drawings, but they don't necessarily give it any significance. My DD had two best friends at primary school. One chinese and one vietnamese, both adopted by white parents. She didn't realise they weren't birth related to their parents until year 6. In fact she told me often how much the one chinese friend looked so like her mum.

My (white) little boy has had an Indian swimming teacher since he was about 18 months old. Never noticed or mentioned it at all. The first time he ever particularly noticed was when he asked why Spencer in Balamory had dark skin (we're not in a very diverse area!!) aged about 3. That says, we have family members who we don't see more than once a year if that who are black and he's never once asked why. Just family

My 4 year old has talked about being brown and lots of people being white since she was just under 2 as well. I think a few kids mentioned something at nursery about her skin being different. It really has been crazy having conversations about race so young with her. I would have bet money that it would be a nonissue in her life, unfortunately I was wrong.

I've only ever discussed it saying that darker skin is from sunnier places and vice versa and that it has evolved that way to protect you

At nursery my son would describe other children as ‘the brown boy’, ‘the yellow girl’ or similar but it turned out this was specifically hair colour (there were children with different skin colours in his nursery but this wasn’t included in description). In reception he would talk about nationalities in his class (Japanese, Pakistani, polish) early on and most noticed this where the children in question were not fluent English speakers (he is, although lived overseas when v small and had issues with some English pronunciation and was aware of this as had been teased about it). So I guess was aware of ‘differences’ but maybe not always in quite same way/ for same reasons as adults think of ‘race’.