We took our now 3,5 years old son for a trip to USA last fall … so he was 2,5 years old that time. We live in Europe. Next week i am traveling there again so i spoke with him about me traveling to USA and he started asking me questions about places we were last year. Also he was telling me many specific memories from that trip last year and was asking me about specific people we have met. That is not surprising, it was last year. But how is it possible, that he will not remember anything from it 15 years from now if he remember it year after? I mean, he will not remember he was in USA at all.
I would understand that kids and toddlers keep forgetting stuff and thats why they will never remember them as an adults. But if they remember things from year or more ago, why will they forgett them as an adults?
In: 2567
Things I remember from around the age of two to three.
An ambulance ride and trip to ER. This same memory involves a kind Dr with curly hair and cold stethoscope
My mother crying in the kitchen
Watching sesame street in that little apartment living room
My mother getting me out of bed to see a huge moon on our balcony
My parents having a party. There were olives. I did not like the olives.
Walking with my mother in the bitter cold across a bridge.
Losing a plastic puzzle piece between some train seats. A kindly lady gave me a perfume sample to comfort me.
When I was almost five, my only sibling was born. We moved not long after across country. You would think I would have some memory of those events, yet I have none. The first memory I have of my brother is when we both had chicken pox – I was five and he would have been 6 mos old.
Latest Answers