No real harm done. I was not aware that in Italian - having a gramatical dependency on genders - "your son" would be considered as "your kiddo".

I was sure to teach my hypothetical (as in Schroedinger hypothetical) daughter to code anyway ;-)

basically in Italian there is no neutral like "children", you can say "your sons" (i tuoi figli) or "your daughters" (le tue figlie), and to say it generally you use the male gender. There is no way to say it in a mostly unbiased way using the singular, but just the plural, and still it is "your sons".

This is the most interesting thing I learned today! (no really, no sarcasm here)

Thanks for the explanation.

I can definetely relate to the OP. The Indonesian(my native language) language doesn't really use gender specific either. That was one of the biggest problem I had when I moved to the US.

Everything is a learning exercise.