“…Indeed, during the preschool years, one key component of parent–child reminiscing is discussion of other people's emotions and mental lives (Fivush, Haden & Reese, 2006; Kuebli, Butler & Fivush, 1995; Rudek & Haden, 2005), discussion that may help them to adopt a more mentalistic stance (Fivush & Nelson, 2006; Harris, de Rosnay & Pons, 2005). By age five, children's accounts of personal experiences during naturalistic parent–child conversations are richly interpersonal, involving not only family members but also peers and others outside the family (Miller, Mintz, Fung, Hoogstra & Potts, 1992; Mintz, 1995). Research on children's talk about others in the preschool setting documents a similar developmental pattern (Engel & Li, 2004).…”