In the period around the third to fourth year of age, physiological speech difficulties are rather frequent in children, and may sometimes be mistaken for the beginnings of stuttering. However, this more probably constitutes a natural and unconscious strategy of the child while coping with linguistically demanding expressions, in which the child uses repetition, or breaks in speech to gain more time to enunciate a more complex utterance. Only a very small percentage of physiological iterations (word repetitions) later develop into true stuttering. The child’s care-givers should approach these difficulties sensitively, and should not rush the child into speech expression.