Early Child Development and Care 481 forms of these two statements indicate that they potentially are directives(Vanderveken, 1988). Emma satisfies only one of them. She puts the finishing touches to the details of her mother's face under the close scrutiny of the boy. She ignores the other suggestion(to grow the mother), therewith leaving her brother likely to be dissatisfied. It is the close look on the drawing-object, which will trigger this request from Leo, ignored by Emma. Indeed, immediately after having finished the detail of the face, while starting to enjoin her brother to go on (ok your turn ), she hesitates (er)when noticing the difference in size, which clearly appears on the sheet. Let us point out that, had she listened to her brother asking her to'make her feet bigger, this difference would not have been so clear! In other words, because of its availability to the vision of both children, the drawing-object compensates for the ineffectiveness of her brother's speech on this point, reactivating the question of the size. The ongoing hesitation is in this respect very eloquent. Emma states, 'mom she is a bit small(El) while joining with the stump of her pencil both ends of the parent's representations. This virtual line clearly goes from left to right and from top to bottom. The mother is really too small! One could interpret Leo's laughs as a sign of victory(I told you so!) but we lack some observations to be able to confirm it. In any case, Emma cannot be satisfied with this difference. Rather than doing what her brother was asking(enlarging her mother) she drastically and without consultation applied herself to shortening the father she takes her brother's eraser, puts it next to the father's feet and gets ready to erase while aying you have to shorten your dad here'(E3). We notice here a very interesting way of using the two personal pronouns your and you. Let us consider your first. Obviously, it is not just about Leo's father, it is also Emmas father. However, the idea is not to shorten the father, but the representation Leo made of him. Thus, the'your father'designates the drawing. This, of course, is obvious, but underlines the fact that Emma gives her brother a sense of responsibility. Now, let us consider the you. Through this 'you have to, she firmly asks her brother to reduce the size of Dad. By doing so, she blames him for having drawn Dad too tall. This is of course very interesting, considering the boys investment EMMA Figure 2. The family drawn by the two childrenEarly Child Development and Care 481 forms of these two statements indicate that they potentially are directives (Vanderveken, 1988). Emma satisfies only one of them. She puts the finishing touches to the details of her mother’s face under the close scrutiny of the boy. She ignores the other suggestion (to grow the mother), therewith leaving her brother likely to be dissatisfied. It is the close look on the drawing-object, which will trigger this request from Leo, ignored by Emma. Indeed, immediately after having finished the detail of the face, while starting to enjoin her brother to go on (‘ok your turn’), she hesitates (‘er’) when noticing the difference in size, which clearly appears on the sheet. Let us point out that, had she listened to her brother asking her to ‘make her feet bigger’, this difference would not have been so clear! In other words, because of its availability to the vision of both children, the drawing-object compensates for the ineffectiveness of her brother’s speech on this point, reactivating the question of the size. The ongoing hesitation is in this respect very eloquent. Emma states, ‘mom she is a bit small’ (E1) while joining with the stump of her pencil both ends of the parent’s representations. This virtual line clearly goes from left to right and from top to bottom. The mother is really too small! One could interpret Leo’s laughs as a sign of victory (I told you so!) but we lack some observations to be able to confirm it. In any case, Emma cannot be satisfied with this difference. Rather than doing what her brother was asking (enlarging her mother) she drastically and without consultation applied herself to shortening the father: she takes her brother’s eraser, puts it next to the father’s feet and gets ready to erase while saying ‘you have to shorten your dad here’ (E3). We notice here a very interesting way of using the two personal pronouns your and you. Let us consider your first. Obviously, it is not just about Leo’s father, it is also Emma’s father. However, the idea is not to shorten the father, but the representation Leo made of him. Thus, the ‘your father’ designates the drawing. This, of course, is obvious, but underlines the fact that Emma gives her brother a sense of responsibility.5 Now, let us consider the you. Through this ‘you have to’, she firmly asks her brother to reduce the size of Dad. By doing so, she blames him for having drawn Dad too tall. This is of course very interesting, considering the boy’s investment Figure 2. The family drawn by the two children